Committees Tackle the Deficit

Summarizes the recommendations of a presidential commission and private bipartisan committee for reducing the federal deficit by cutting healthcare costs, Social Security outlays, and discretionary spending, and by raising taxes

Have Recent Budget Policies Contributed to Long-Run Fiscal Stability?

Examines developments in budget policies since January 2010; the president's 2011 budget, including economic stimulus and tax and spending policies; congressional action; and issues for health reform. Considers their effect on long-term sustainability

Controlling the Deficit: The Debate Continues

Looks at budget cuts proposed by House Republicans and the president's framework with respect to savings in healthcare spending, Social Security and other entitlement spending, and discretionary spending; tax policy; and the Budget Control Act

Cities and climate change: Strategic options for philanthropic support

Now, more than ever, cities are at the front lines of U.S. climate action. As national action stalls, there is still a daunting amount to be done in reducing human-generated climate emissions. Fortunately, this report comes in the wake of a groundswell of initiatives to engage on climate change by cities, countries, and states across the U.S. Several important and thorough reports on the types of mitigation actions cities can take have recently been released. We already have examples of cities taking significant leadership roles in reducing their own climate emissions, from New York and Boston to Austin, Boulder, and Los Angeles - yet U.S. climate emissions continue to rise, and cities have an outsized role to play. The purpose of this project is to review current U.S. city climate activities in order to identify areas where additional investment by foundations could help accelerate city action to reduce urban greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of the inquiry is on aggressive actions cities can take that significantly increase their “level of ambition” to achieve emissions reductions on an accelerated timetable. City strategies on climate adaptation are not encompassed in this project. [TRUNCATED

Trajectories of physicians in Manitoba, Canada: the influence of contact points of rural-focused professional learning

Background: The Manitoba Office of Rural and Northern Health (ORNH) provided a multi-year series of elective opportunities for undergraduate medical students to support rural/remote medical practice. The purpose of this study was to examine the career trajectories of Manitoba physicians in eight matched cohorts over the period 2004-2007 between: 1) those who experienced a required rural clinical block rotation only during their undergraduate medicine training in Manitoba (Med 1 and Med 3), and; 2) those who engaged in and completed additional elective programs referred to here as “contact points”.                Methods: The study utilized a retrospective/longitudinal matched cohort design which included the common factor of a mandated rural clinical one-week rotation and the differentiating factors of experiences in elective programming offered by the ORNH (contact points).Results: Of the 344 Manitoba-trained physicians whose location of current practice could be determined, 74 are presently in rural/remote communities and 270 in urban settings. Those physicians who are now in rural/remote practice were significantly more likely (p ≤ 0.05) to have continued contact with ORNH in addition to the mandatory rural rotation alone. For practitioners now located in rural/remote settings, a mean of 0.903 contact points per learner with ORNH programs is observed. For those now in urban practice the mean number of contact points per learner was 0.233.Conclusion: We conclude that there is an association between rural-focused contact points and rural and remote practice in Manitoba. Targeted professional learning where physician recruitment and retention remains a continuing challenge is discussed

The Critical Role of Public Charging Infrastructure

Editors: Peter Fox-Penner, PhD, Z. Justin Ren, PhD, David O. JermainA decade after the launch of the contemporary global electric vehicle (EV) market, most cities face a major challenge preparing for rising EV demand. Some cities, and the leaders who shape them, are meeting and even leading demand for EV infrastructure. This book aggregates deep, groundbreaking research in the areas of urban EV deployment for city managers, private developers, urban planners, and utilities who want to understand and lead change

Polylysine aggregation of human blood platelets

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/21804/1/0000204.pd

Modeling of global sulfate aerosol number concentrations

A two-moment, two-mode model of sulfate aerosol dynamics has been added to the University of Michigan three-dimensional chemical transport, transformation and deposition model, GRANTOUR. The two-moment model predicts both aerosol number and mass concentrations, and was chosen based on its computational efficiency and the small number of prognostic variables, which reduce storage requirements in the large-scale model. Simulations were performed to investigate the processes that control predicted number concentrations, and comparisons with observations were used to suggest additional features that should be added to the coupled gas-phase chemistry/aerosol model to bring the predictions more in line with observations. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87551/2/677_1.pd

AN EX VIVO METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF BIOMATERIALS IN CONTACT WITH BLOOD *

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73650/1/j.1749-6632.1977.tb41793.x.pd