Long-Term Cost of the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009; As Passed by the Senate Finance Committee

Estimates the impact of the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare reform bill on health insurance coverage rates and net spending by federal, state, and local government with offsets; private employers; and families of various ages from 2010 through 2019

Interface Problems for Dispersive equations

The interface problem for the linear Schr\"odinger equation in one-dimensional piecewise homogeneous domains is examined by providing an explicit solution in each domain. The location of the interfaces is known and the continuity of the wave function and a jump in their derivative at the interface are the only conditions imposed. The problem of two semi-infinite domains and that of two finite-sized domains are examined in detail. The problem and the method considered here extend that of an earlier paper by Deconinck, Pelloni and Sheils (2014). The dispersive nature of the problem presents additional difficulties that are addressed here.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1402.3007, Studies in Applied Mathematics 201

Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner

Style emerged into discursive prominence in nineteenth-century Europe at the same time as the classical symptoms of hysteria were given new impetus by neurologists and psychoanalysts. Later, when the Post-War architecture of late capitalism seemed to spell the end of style, ‘in the sense of the unique and the personal, the end of the individual brushstroke’ (Fredric Jameson), hysteria started to disappear as a psychiatric diagnosis. To explore how style’s structural affinity with hysteria remains current, even as the professionalisation of the Humanities ensures it is disavowed, the first part of this essay redeploys D. W. Winnicott’s idea of ‘transitional phenomena’. I describe the hysterical predicament of the Humanities scholar who is unable to make or find an object of knowledge sufficient to end the distress of their interests. The second part of the essay demonstrates how autobiographic fictions foreground the hysteria of style. Here I place Brigid Brophy, writing in the 1960s and 70s, and Ben Lerner, writing in the first decades of this millennium, in genealogical relation. I observe how the historical swing from 1970s ‘metafiction’ to contemporary ‘autofiction’ registers the interminable predicament of style. Style, I argue, enacts a curiously insistent mode of withdrawal from objectivity. It displaces the object of literary study and preserves its vulnerability through a structure of communicative reticence

Exploring the intertextual and multimodal connections young adults make in their explorations of hard copy and visual texts: Some implications for classroom teachers

This paper will examine the intertextual and multimodal connections identified and explored by young adults as they engaged with a hard-copy text (book) and a related visual medium (film). Four fourth-year pre-service teachers from the University of Wollongong were recruited to participate in extensive semistructured interviews, during which they explored their interactions with their chosen mediums. Focus was placed on how individuals constructed meaning, the connections they identified between the mediums, and any cultural knowledge they drew upon for interpretive purposes. The findings of this inquiry revealed five major themes that provide insight into the intertextual and multimodal nature of meaning-making processes employed for written and visual mediums, as explained by the participants. Through better understanding of how individuals construct meaning from these media forms, teachers are more able to adequately prepare students for future success in an advanced technological society

Constructing Temporality and Contextualizing the Passing of Time: How Native Foods Operate as Timekeepers / How the Modern American Food Market Manipulates Their Functionality

There is extensive evidence that suggests that Indigenous groups in the Northern Hemisphere (specifically in the Northern areas of what is now known as the United States) have held empirical knowledge of food and food systems to help conceptualize the passing of time. In conjunction with seasonal weather changes and evolving moon patterns, certain foods have acted as annual landmarks in which tribes could better understand their calendar year as having a cyclical design; in addition to organizing moments of the year, dishes are also made to celebrate the environments from which their ingredients were foraged from. Thus, food can be used as a technology of natural rhythm—consumed by groups to experience their environment and track their unique understanding of time. Inversely, modern capitalistic markets use food as a technology of efficiency. Instead of using native foods to construct a distinctive temporality, mass market American foods construct a shared sense of time held by all its consumers regardless of their geographical location