Universal features of polymer shapes in crowded environment

We study the universal characteristics of the shape of a polymer chain in an environment with correlated structural obstacles, applying the field-theoretical renormalization group approach. Our results qualitatively indicate an increase of the asymmetry of the polymer shape in crowded environment comparing with the pure solution case.Comment: 9 page

Financing U.S. Graduate Medical Education: A Policy Position Paper of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians

In this position paper, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians examine the state of graduate medical education (GME) financing in the United States and recent proposals to reform GME funding. They make a series of recommendations to reform the current funding system to better align GME with the needs of the nation's health care workforce. These recommendations include using Medicare GME funds to meet policy goals and to ensure an adequate supply of physicians, a proper specialty mix, and appropriate training sites; spreading the costs of financing GME across the health care system; evaluating the true cost of training a resident and establishing a single per-resident amount; increasing transparency and innovation; and ensuring that primary care residents receive training in well-functioning ambulatory settings that are financially supported for their training roles

A Study in Wreckage

This fragmentary memoir seeks to examine and deconstruct my overarching experiences with my body and, more specifically, the period of time in which I was anorexic. Spanning almost the entirety of my life from childhood through to the present day, this work concerns both what preceded the diagnosis and followed the “recovery” in order to contextualize my eating disorder within a broader set of experiences and themes. My memoir touches directly on related and paralleling topics of girlhood, womanhood, puberty, motherhood, love, materialism, misogyny, and the patriarchy through metaphors concerning wreckage and destruction. This work as a whole is largely about how love itself is a form of wreckage. It explores the human tendency to obsess over tragedies and destruction. These episodes of wreckage excavate the destructive habits of anorexia and anxiety while concurrently centering emotionally turbulent mindsets in terms of place. Through these depictions of destruction, my thesis simultaneously externalizes the internal, highlighting not only how I interact with place through historical contexts and sensory experiences, but how I perceive the body as a place itself. The body, too, becomes a site of historical contextualization and sensory experiences, demonstrating how an eating disorder is a complicated, destructive force as storied as physical places. The reverberating and consequence-inducing nature of destruction along with the memoir’s breadth of topics accentuates the cyclicality of eating disorders. The memoir’s non sequential narrative similarly buttresses this notion of cyclicality. In that vein, this work can also be read as a departure from the traditional recovery narrative. As the stressors that caused the eating disorder never wholly evaporate, anorexia is a consistent looming threat. This creative work strives to be a generative place for conversations about the body, particularly a platform for genuine and brutal discussions of anorexia and disordered eating