Setting things rigth : the massacre in the Sierra Mazatán and indigeous archaeology Sonora, México

En junio de 1902, tropas mexicanas atacaron un campamento de mujeres y niños yaquis en Sonora, México, matando a 124 yaquis. Tres semanas más tarde, el antropólogo físico norteamericano Aleš Hrdlička recogió los cráneos de 10 individuos, huesos humanos, sombreros, mantas, armas y una cuna del campo de batalla. Envió estos materiales al Museo Americano de Historia Natural en la ciudad de Nueva York. El proyecto binacional Cerro Mazatán colaboró con las tribus yaquis de Sonora y Arizona para repatriar los restos humanos y otros materiales que Hrdlička tomó del campo de batalla. La colaboración fue un éxito y en el otoño de 2009 el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural devolvió los restos al pueblo yaqui. Este proyecto es un ejemplo valioso de cómo la Arqueología indígena puede arreglar las cosas y expiar las transgresiones pasadas de la arqueología.In June 1902, Mexican troops attacked the camp of women and children and killed 124 Yaqui. Three weeks later, the North American physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička collected the skulls of 10 individuals, human bone, hats, blankets, weapons, and a cradleboard from the battlefield. He shipped these materials to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The bi-national Proyecto Cerro Mazatán project worked collaboratively with the Yaqui tribes of Sonora and Arizona to repatriate the human remains and other materials than Hrdlička took from the battlefield. The collaboration was a success and in the fall of 2009 the National Museum of Natural History returned the remains to the Yaqui people. This project is a valuable example of how indigenous Archaeology can set things right and atone for archaeology’s past transgressions.Fil: McGuire, Randall H.

Software Quality Skills in CMM-Based Development Environments

This paper examines the complex software development environment in which IS professionals commonly function today. Skills and competencies appropriate to this environment are increasingly related to managing change and adopting change agent roles. These skills and competencies are discussed in relation to complex and changing environments. Asurvey of IS professionals evaluates their perceptions of the importance of these competencies and their own capability in these areas. Observations and conclusions in this paper are primarily drawn from research on organizations that have initiated software process improvement initiatives (McGuire 1996a; 1996b; 1997)

Measuring efficiency of health plan payment systems in managed competition health insurance markets

Adverse selection in health insurance markets leads to two types of inefficiency. On the demand side, adverse selection leads to plan price distortions resulting in inefficient sorting of consumers across health plans. On the supply side, adverse selection creates incentives for plans to inefficiently distort benefits to attract profitable enrollees. Reinsurance, risk adjustment, and premium categories address these problems. Building on prior research on health plan payment system evaluation, we develop measures of the efficiency consequences of price and benefit distortions under a given payment system. Our measures are based on explicit economic models of insurer behavior under adverse selection, incorporate multiple features of plan payment systems, and can be calculated prior to observing actual insurer and consumer behavior. We illustrate the use of these measures with data from a simulated market for individual health insurance.R01 MH094290 - NIMH NIH HHS; T32 MH019733 - NIMH NIH HHSAccepted manuscrip

Delineation of the TRAK binding regions of the kinesin-1 motor proteins

Understanding specific cargo distribution in differentiated cells is a major challenge. Trafficking kinesin proteins (TRAKs) are kinesin adaptors. They bind the cargo binding domain of kinesin-1 motor proteins forming a link between the motor and their cargoes. To refine the TRAK1/2 binding sites within the kinesin-1 cargo domain, rationally designed C-terminal truncations of KIF5A and KIF5C were generated and their co-association with TRAK1/2 determined by quantitative co-immunoprecipitations following co-expression in mammalian cells. Three contributory regions forming the TRAK2 binding site within KIF5A and KIF5C cargo binding domains were delineated. Differences were found between TRAK1/2 with respect to association with KIF5A

Risk-adjustment simulation: plans may have incentives to distort mental health and substance use coverage

Under the Affordable Care Act, the risk-adjustment program is designed to compensate health plans for enrolling people with poorer health status so that plans compete on cost and quality rather than the avoidance of high-cost individuals. This study examined health plan incentives to limit covered services for mental health and substance use disorders under the risk-adjustment system used in the health insurance Marketplaces. Through a simulation of the program on a population constructed to reflect Marketplace enrollees, we analyzed the cost consequences for plans enrolling people with mental health and substance use disorders. Our assessment points to systematic underpayment to plans for people with these diagnoses. We document how Marketplace risk adjustment does not remove incentives for plans to limit coverage for services associated with mental health and substance use disorders. Adding mental health and substance use diagnoses used in Medicare Part D risk adjustment is one potential policy step toward addressing this problem in the Marketplaces.Ellen Montz was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Grant No. T32HS000055). Tim Layton acknowledges support from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (Institutional Training Grant No. T32-019733). Randall Ellis, Sherri Rose, and Thomas McGuire were supported by the NIMH (Grant No. 2R01-MH094290). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (T32HS000055 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; T32-019733 - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); 2R01-MH094290 - NIMH)https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1668Accepted manuscrip