Avoidable Hospitalizations

Georgia Health Policy Center worked to improve health care in eight of the most rural, medically under served states in the country. The Center conducted research and provided strategic planning for eight Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, East Texas and West Virginia

MR. JUSTICE MURPHY

I count it a rare privilege to have known Frank Murphy. Gentle, kindly, and amiable of temperament, yet he had a strength of character and tenacity of purpose that enabled him to uphold the right, as God gave him to see the right, no matter what the pressures and constraints. His untimely death deeply touched the hearts of all who knew him, while the poor, the underprivileged, the accused, and minorities of many different shades of belief mourned the passing of one who had been their protagonist

Sustained Effects of Developmental Exposure to Ethanol on Zebrafish Anxiety-Like Behaviour

<p>Stress-related behaviour assessed by thigmotaxis in zebrafish larvae A,B) 9dpf, C,D) 10dpf, E,F) 23dpf juveniles. G,H) Effect of diazepam on larval stress-reactivity assessed by thigmotaxis. Time course of average time spent each minute at the edge of the apparatus (A, C, E), overall average time spent per minute at the edge of the apparatus (B, D, F). (A-D) Developmental ethanol exposure decreased thigmotaxis at both 9dpf (A,B: <i>F</i> 2,105 = 4.76, <i>P</i><0.05) and 10dpf (C,D: <i>F</i> 2, 285 = 6.69, <i>P</i><0.05), with the greatest difference between 20mM ethanol treatment and the control. Siblings of the same animals were raised for another 2 weeks and tested as 23 dpf juveniles (E,F). These juveniles exhibited a similar thigmotaxis response as at 9dpf, with decreased thigmotaxis in ethanol treated animals compared to controls (<i>F</i> 2,146 = 2.93, <i>P</i><0.05). (G-H) Larvae acutely treated with diazepam for 6 minutes exhibited significantly reduced time spent at the edges of the wells compared to controls (<i>F</i> 1, 259 = 5.47, <i>P</i><0.01). There were no significant differences in distance travelled. Post-hoc t-test: *** <i>P</i><0.001, ** <i>P</i><0.01.</p

Congratulations, you've failed: Evaluating collaborative projects through logical frameworks and stories.

To follow are 31 different retrospective logframes representing coded data from the NC-Exchange Community NETworker Demonstration. In my approach, I have taken interview data from project participants in three categories - NC-Exchange staff, NETworkers, and host organization directors - in addition to the original NETworker project proposal, and coded the information using the structure of the logical framework. In all, I have coded 26 separate items from different project sources. More specifically, I have placed each statement (or portion of a statement) made by the participants (or sentences, in the case of the proposal) into the box in the logframe matrix that I feel best represents the statement's meaning relative to its position within the overall system of the NETworker project. In this way, each statement becomes a disaggregated Wider Objective, Immediate Objective, Output, Activity, Indicator of Achievement, Means of Verification, or Assumption of the project. Because the individual retrospective logframes based on statements from the full interview transcripts are quite long (in some cases, more than 40 pages), I have also produced synthesized versions of several retrospective logframes in which I capture the main points in bullet-point format. In the long versions of the retrospective logframes, statements have been left intact; in the short versions, individual statements have been shortened or summarized into their key themes. In summarizing them, I have sought to leave the phrases in the same language used by the respondents in order to preserve the intended meanings. Statements that have not fit within the logframe categories have not been captured, though they remain accessible via the transcripts. For a more detailed description of the method, please refer to Appendix 6 of the thesis