Daubert\u27s Significance

The authors review and note the limited reach of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. They also address its implications for concerned non-lawyers

ADDRESSING MARKET SEGMENTATION AND INCENTIVES FOR RISK SELECTION: HOW WELL DOES RISK EQUALISATION IN THE IRISH PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET WORK? ESRI Research Bulletin 2017/05

Community rating restricts health insurers from varying premiums based on insurees’ risk profiles. It is a key feature of many health insurance markets. While designed to promote equity, this regulation incentivises insurers to focus on attracting low-risk (profitable) consumers while avoiding high-risk (unprofitable) consumers. This phenomenon is known as “risk selection”. Risk selection has a number of negative consequences, such as market segmentation and poor quality service to high-risk individuals (e.g. the old and sick). It also causes inefficiency where investment focusses on attracting low-risk individuals (e.g. the young and healthy) rather than improving price and quality. The best strategy for reducing risk selection incentives is good risk equalisation. Commonly, this involves providing risk-adjusted premium subsidies to insurers based on insurees’ risk profiles. These subsidies are generally administered through a risk equalisation scheme. Our study investigated the performance of Ireland’s scheme. Despite the liberalisation of the Irish health insurance market in the mid-1990s, bona-fide risk equalisation payments only commenced in 2013. The current risk equalisation system allocates risk-adjusted subsidies to insurers based on the age, sex, level of cover, and hospital utilisation, of insurees

Monte Carlo methods

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Alien Registration- Keegan, Thomas R. (Reed Plantation, Aroostook County)

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Student integration in a new Higher Education Institution

Student integration is a concern for every educational institution. This study focuses on student integration within the business school of a new Higher Education Institution (HEI) based in Scotland. The case study HEI is fictitiously referred to as Thistle College. The study of integration is not new but most of the research has been based on retention and integration in American institutions, indicating a need for more research on integration in the UK. Initially the research focused on why students withdrew from College, but the research focus was revised due to the problems of accessing student drop-outs. The revised study investigated why students stayed on their course and what influenced their decision to persist in their studies. The methodology involved desk research, student questionnaires and semi structured interviews with students and staff. The research provides evidence of the changing face of the student population and the challenges faced by students who claim they need to spend as much time in part-time work as they do in the HEI. The research provides an analysis of the life of present day students and a better understanding of the student experience and the changing expectations of the student population. The research indicates that students are organising their College studies around their lives rather than their lives around their studies. There is less commitment to the College and more commitment to part-time work and their lifestyle outside of College. There is less academic and social integration: students rely more on the relationships formed with staff and their peers than the one they have with the College as an institution. The study provides a number of recommendations for the College to integrate and retain students through enhancing the student experience and managing expectations from pre-entry through to graduation. Although these recommendations are case study specific, HEIs which share similar characteristics may also find these recommendations relevant

What I believe about leadership and education : a reflective essay

The leadership quality is more of an art than a statement. A leader is a server and a debtor, whose first responsibility is to define reality and last responsibility is to say thank you (DePree, 1989). This paper will communicate my educational beliefs, the role of reflective practice in an educational setting, steps to follow in the change process and models, current research for improved learning in the classroom, as well as the importance of being a leader of service in a community. All of these elements are related to the Iowa Standards for School Leaders (ISSL) and are pertinent in the role of an educational leader

Mass anomalous dimension in SU(2) with two adjoint fermions

We study SU(2) lattice gauge theory with two flavours of Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation. We measure the running of the coupling in the Schroedinger Functional (SF) scheme and find it is consistent with existing results. We discuss how systematic errors affect the evidence for an infrared fixed point (IRFP). We present the first measurement of the running of the mass in the SF scheme. The anomalous dimension of the chiral condensate, which is relevant for phenomenological applications, can be easily extracted from the running of the mass, under the assumption that the theory has an IRFP. At the current level of accuracy, we can estimate 0.05 < gamma < 0.56 at the IRFP.Comment: 30 pages, 11 figure

Running of the coupling and quark mass in SU(2) with two adjoint fermions

We simulate SU(2) gauge theory with two massless Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation. We calculate the running of the Schroedinger Functional coupling and the renormalised quark mass over a wide range of length scales. The running of the coupling is consistent with the existence of an infrared fixed point (IRFP), and we find 0.07 < gamma < 0.56 at the IRFP, depending on the value of the critical coupling.Comment: Talk presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China; 7 pages, 4 figure