How Will the Uninsured Be Affected by Health Reform?: Non-Elderly Uninsured

Estimates the share of the non-elderly uninsured who would be eligible for Medicaid expansions or subsidies under proposed reforms. Analyzes eligibility by age, parent status, work status, firm size, premium as percentage of income, and insurance status

Progress Enrolling Children in Medicaid/CHIP: Who Is Left and What Are the Prospects for Covering More Children?

Outlines the resources and tools in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 for data-driven enrollment and retention processes in Medicaid and CHIP, remaining barriers, and the need to tailor outreach efforts to specific needs

Population connectivity shifts at high frequency within an open-coast marine protected area network.

A complete understanding of population connectivity via larval dispersal is of great value to the effective design and management of marine protected areas (MPA). However empirical estimates of larval dispersal distance, self-recruitment, and within season variability of population connectivity patterns and their influence on metapopulation structure remain rare. We used high-resolution otolith microchemistry data from the temperate reef fish Hypsypops rubicundus to explore biweekly, seasonal, and annual connectivity patterns in an open-coast MPA network. The three MPAs, spanning 46 km along the southern California coastline were connected by larval dispersal, but the magnitude and direction of connections reversed between 2008 and 2009. Self-recruitment, i.e. spawning, dispersal, and settlement to the same location, was observed at two locations, one of which is a MPA. Self-recruitment to this MPA ranged from 50-84%; within the entire 60 km study region, self-recruitment accounted for 45% of all individuals settling to study reefs. On biweekly time scales we observed directional variability in alongshore current data and larval dispersal trajectories; if viewed in isolation these data suggest the system behaves as a source-sink metapopulation. However aggregate biweekly data over two years reveal a reef network in which H. rubicundus behaves more like a well-mixed metapopulation. As one of the few empirical studies of population connectivity within a temperate open coast reef network, this work can inform the MPA design process, implementation of ecosystem based management plans, and facilitate conservation decisions

That\u27s A Wrap! The Organizational Culture And Characteristics Of Successful Film Crews

This study seeks to determine through survey research what characteristics film production crews possess that makes them so successful as an organization. The factors of age, gender, years of professional experience and education level were tested for their significance on how the respondents view their culture. Hofstede\u27s six dimensions of organizational culture survey questions were rewritten to be applicable to the freelance film crew sample. The presentation of findings focuses on the resultant organizational profile of a film production crew, the workplace values of this group and the influence that the education level of the participants had on responses. The data presented here are valuable for organizational culture scholars, management scholars and those interested in applying the successful techniques of the film production crew to other business organizations

Social commentary in hard-boiled detective fiction: Seeing the world through the eyes of Marlowe and Millhone.

This study examines how the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction has been and continues to be a unique medium for social commentary and an exploration of human nature. The study focuses on two novelist, Raymond Chandler, considered by critics to be the godfather of the genre, and Sue Grafton, a contemporary novelist. I have chosen to research two very different authors of this genre to explain that despite the diversity of the novelist and the age in which they wrote, they both use the techniques of the hard-boiled detective novel to mirror their perception of society. Both authors show that through the unique traits of the hard-boiled detective, they have created reliable narrators of the human condition, exploring the nature of everything from alcoholism and domestic violence, to crime, corruption, and the justice system, to sex, love, family, and friendship

Parent psychopathology and child perfectionism

Though perfectionism has been defined and measured in various ways, researchers generally agree that holding excessively high standards for oneself and/or others is central to the construct. Perfectionists are those individuals for whom merely doing well is never good enough. Perfectionism has been associated with many psychological disorders and signs of maladjustment. Though perfectionism is theorized as existing from childhood and onward, much of the research on this construct has used adult samples. Evidence suggests that parents are closely involved in the development of perfectionism in their children. For these reasons, research about perfectionism in children and relevant associations with parent characteristics is of significant importance; The current study assessed self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism in children and their parents as well as symptoms of psychopathology in these children and parents. The first hypothesis was that perfectionistic parents would be more likely to have children who also reported high levels of perfectionistic cognitions and behaviors. Significant relationships were found between mothers\u27 self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism and sons\u27 self-oriented perfectionism. The second hypothesis was that parents who reported symptoms of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and general psychological distress would be more likely to have perfectionistic children than parents who did not report symptoms of these disorders. Indeed, parent symptomatology was related to self-oriented perfectionism in sons and maternal symptomatology predicted self-oriented perfectionism in sons. The third hypothesis was that parents and children who reported symptoms of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and general internalizing problems would also report higher levels of perfectionism. Self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism were each associated with and predicted symptomatology in male youth. Maternal symptoms of psychopathology were also predicted by self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism. Findings were consistent with the fourth hypothesis that a no ethnic or gender differences in perfectionism would be found

Polysaccharide food matrices for controlling the release, retention and perception of flavours

Polysaccharides have many roles across both the food and pharmaceutics industries. They are commonly used to enhance viscosity, stabilise emulsions and to add bulk to food products. In the pharmaceutics industry, they are also utilised for their mucoadhesive nature. Mucoadhesive polysaccharides can facilitate retention of active ingredients at mucosal sites for a prolonged time and formulations can be designed to control their release and bioavailability. This study investigates how polysaccharides, with differing physicochemical properties (e.g. functional groups and molecular weight), affect the release and perception of flavour compounds from films. Polysaccharide films were prepared using either high or low viscosity carboxymethyl cellulose, pullulan or hydroxypropyl methylcellulose. Glucose, vanillin or a combination of both was also added to the films to assess the effect of flavour release and perception over time. The films were assessed for glucose release in vitro, swelling and disintegration times, and mucoadhesive ability. Results show that flavour release and perception depend on the polysaccharide matrix properties; this includes how quickly the films dissolves, the rate of release of tastant compounds, and the mucoadhesive strength of the polysaccharide. A higher viscosity and slower disintegration time resulted in slower release of glucose in vitro and flavour perception in vivo