The miner and the manuscripts

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Medicaid Spending Growth Over the Last Decade and the Great Recession, 2000-2009

Analyzes Medicaid enrollment and per-capita spending growth by service and compared with other areas of the healthcare system. Examines contributing factors, potential program cuts as a result of states' budget woes, and implications for the safety net

Russians Back Protests, Political Freedoms and Putin, Too

Presents survey findings about Russians' reaction to the December 2011 parliamentary and March 2012 presidential elections and subsequent protests, attitudes toward democracy, and views of leaders, nationalism, and Russia?s global image

Playing with poetry: Lessons utilizing creative drama techniques to teach poetry to senior high school students

Although much has been written on the ways drama can be used in the English classroom, little has focused on the teaching of poetry using dramatic techniques. This paper provides a thirty-lesson creative drama unit for teaching poetry to high school students. The first three chapters introduce creative drama, review current research, and detail the background of the lessons. The bulk of the paper is contained in the fourth chapter, the lessons themselves. The early lessons introduce students to improvisation, poetry writing, spontaneity, and in-class performance. These skills are refined and used in later lessons to teach areas of poetry, including sound devices and poetic meter and structure. Specific poems are provided for each lesSon In the final lessons the students use their own knowledge and their ability to perform to create original dramatic presentations based upon poetry they themselves have chosen

THE PLAN-NET AS A GEOMETRY FOR ANALYSIS OF PRE-MODERN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND LAYOUT

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2013Limited Pre-Modern calculating skills favored geometry for design and layout. Technical limitations precluding durable, detailed measured drawings favored sequentially proportional steps transmitting information from design to construction. The Ancient Egyptian phrase "Casting the plan-net on the ground" implies a rectilinear network of geometrical lines serving to locate plan elements on the ground. Reconstruction of Polykleitos' Kanon demonstrates design parameters based on sequential proportionality that extracts a "correctly" proportioned human figure from an original square base figure. Fifteenth century booklets describe extraction of a completed architectural form from the base figure. Iconographic sources trace these Ancient World methods from their use in practical implementation to symbolization as eighteenth century remembrances in Free Mason paraphernalia. To associate floor plan elements with a rectilinear network, plan-net geometry manipulates proportional relationships of squares and rectangles in sequentially proportional steps. Geometrical design steps by divider and straightedge are identical to ground-lines steps by cord and peg, eliminating calculation from scale change. Marking plan features by plan-net analysis reveals an inherent geometrical unity that appears to cross diachronic and synchronic borders. Varied plan-net patterns offer a new perspective for classifying vernacular floor plans. Conformance to plan-net lines by indeterminate architectural elements validates elements in question and suggests other elements missing from the architectural or archeological record. Seeking to understand how a house is thought as Henry Glassie said, and if culture is pattern in the mind, then plan-net analysis renders such pattern visible, to be understood as a unity crossing boundaries of culture and time but whose products can be differentiated as artifacts localized within cultural and temporal boundaries. To understand what has disappeared from the record, we must be willing to imagine what was, and then test what is imagined to ascertain how it fits to what is

House Republican Budget Plan: State-by-State Impact of Changes in Medicaid Financing

Estimates how the April 2011 Budget Plan passed by the House of Representatives would affect federal Medicaid funding for states between 2012 and 2021 and how in turn this would affect Medicaid spending and enrollment and hospitals under three scenarios

The Impact of the CIMMYT Wheat Breeding Program on Mexican Wheat Producers and Consumers: An Economic Welfare Analysis

The increase in wheat production in Mexico’s Yaqui Valley from the breeding and development of semidwarf wheat varieties released by CIMMYT is quantified for the period 1990-2002, and the costs and benefits of the wheat research program are estimated and evaluated using a two-region model of the world wheat market.Public wheat breeding, benefit/cost analysis, agricultural research, wheat varieties, Crop Production/Industries, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

Isolation and Characterization of Microbial Pathogens Found in Chickens

The bacterial content of retail chicken is a topic of growing concern. Chicken processing plants are under increasingly strict regulations to prevent contamination. Likewise, increasing controversy is being directed towards chicken farmers concerning cleanliness and the use of antibiotics in raising chickens, as it may lead to antibiotic resistance. There is legitimate concern surrounding the many possible pathogens associated with chicken, let alone the recent trend of bacteria with heightened resistance to antibiotics. This project was carried out with the purpose of the identification and characterization of bacteria found in chicken from local supermarkets. As multiple bacterial species were expected to be encountered, successful identification of at least one species was paramount for the continuation of this project prior to examining bacteria for antibiotic resistance and virulence factors

Dual Eligibles: Medicaid Enrollment and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries in 2007

Provides an update on the share of total Medicaid enrollment and spending on those eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid through 2007, state-by-state estimates of Medicaid enrollment and expenditures for dual eligibles, and a breakdown of expenditures