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State Progress Toward Health Reform Implementation
Provides updated state-level estimates of the effects of the 2010 healthcare reform act on coverage and costs, including correlations between a state's progress in establishing insurance exchanges and expected benefits in coverage and federal subsidies
The Role of Interactivity in Local Differential Privacy
We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we
focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive
protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in
sequence, but they cannot return to previously queried users. The vast majority
of existing lower bounds for local differential privacy apply only to
sequentially interactive protocols, and before this paper it was not known
whether fully interactive protocols were more powerful. We resolve this
question. First, we classify locally private protocols by their
compositionality, the multiplicative factor by which the sum of a
protocol's single-round privacy parameters exceeds its overall privacy
guarantee. We then show how to efficiently transform any fully interactive
-compositional protocol into an equivalent sequentially interactive protocol
with an blowup in sample complexity. Next, we show that our reduction is
tight by exhibiting a family of problems such that for any , there is a
fully interactive -compositional protocol which solves the problem, while no
sequentially interactive protocol can solve the problem without at least an
factor more examples. We then turn our attention to
hypothesis testing problems. We show that for a large class of compound
hypothesis testing problems --- which include all simple hypothesis testing
problems as a special case --- a simple noninteractive test is optimal among
the class of all (possibly fully interactive) tests
Review of Empty Room with Light
The poems in Ann Hostetler\u27s first collection, Empty Room with Light, reveal the world through the prism of everyday, domestic affairs. Hostetler, a trained visual artist and a professor of Creative Writing at Goshen College, arranges her deceptively simple poems with painterly care; as with a fine still life, the best poems here seem to be lit from within, their forms emerging not from the cunning of the artist, but from an act of attention that allows the people and objects to speak for themselves
“Dallas Wiebe, Cheryl Denise, and Shari Wagner,” Review of three books of poetry
When I agreed to review three volumes of poetry in the DreamSeeker Poetry Series, a series from DreamSeeker Books devoted to publishing Anabaptist-related poets, I came to the task fairly certain of what I would find. Most of the poems would be of the brief, narrative variety. Of these, many if not most would concern themselves with family history, with what it means to be a Mennonite in these modem times, and with personal questions of faith and doubt. A good number of the poems would feature stem-looking women who spend most of their time canning and baking and cleaning, all while never once complaining. Lastly, the poems would be written in the first-person, plain, free verse style best described as unassuming. I\u27m happy to report that I was only about half right
Evaluating Marketing Channel Options for Small-Scale Fruit and Vegetable Producers: Case Study Evidence from Central New York
An investigation of the relative costs and benefits of marketing channels used by typical small-scale diversified vegetable crop producers is conducted. Using case study evidence from four small farms in Central New York, this study compares the performance of wholesale and direct marketing channels, including how the factors of risk, owner and paid labor, price, lifestyle preferences, and sales volume interact to impact optimal market channel selection. Given the highly perishable nature of the crops grown, along with the risks and potential sales volume of particular channels, a combination of different marketing channels is needed to maximize overall firm performance. Accordingly, a ranking system is developed to summarize the major firm-specific factors across channels and to prioritize those channels with the greatest opportunity for success based on individual firm preferences.Marketing channel, small-scale, fruit and vegetable producers, case study, Agribusiness, Crop Production/Industries, Financial Economics,
Evaluating Marketing Channel Options for Small-Scale Fruit and Vegetable Producers
An investigation of the relative costs and benefits of marketing channels used by typical smallscale diversified vegetable crop producers is conducted. Using case study evidence from four small farms in Central New York, this study compares the performance of wholesale and direct marketing channels, including how the factors of risk, owner and paid labor, price, lifestyle preferences, and sales volume interact to impact optimal market channel selection. Given the highly perishable nature of the crops grown, along with the risks and potential sales volume of particular channels, a combination of different marketing channels is needed to maximize overall firm performance. Accordingly, a ranking system is developed to summarize the major firm-specific factors across channels and to prioritize those channels with the greatest opportunity for success based on individual firm preferences.local food, marketing, wholesale, direct, marketing channels, economic evaluation, Agribusiness, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Crop Production/Industries, Demand and Price Analysis, Production Economics,
Optimal Use of Vaccines for Control of Influenza A Virus in Swine
Influenza A virus in swine (IAV-S) is one of the most important infectious disease agents of swine in North America. In addition to the economic burden of IAV-S to the swine industry, the zoonotic potential of IAV-S sometimes leads to serious public health concerns. Adjuvanted, inactivated vaccines have been licensed in the United States for over 20 years, and there is also widespread usage of autogenous/custom IAV-S vaccines. Vaccination induces neutralizing antibodies and protection against infection with very similar strains. However, IAV-S strains are so diverse and prone to mutation that these vaccines often have disappointing efficacy in the field. This scientific review was developed to help veterinarians and others to identify the best available IAV-S vaccine for a particular infected herd. We describe key principles of IAV-S structure and replication, protective immunity, currently available vaccines, and vaccine technologies that show promise for the future. We discuss strategies to optimize the use of available IAV-S vaccines, based on information gathered from modern diagnostics and surveillance programs. Improvements in IAV-S immunization strategies, in both the short term and long term, will benefit swine health and productivity and potentially reduce risks to public health
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