722 research outputs found
Maine’s Workers’ Compensation System: Is it Making the Grade?
Fundamental changes in Maine’s workers\u27 compensation system were legislated four years ago. What impact have they had and what remains on the policy agenda? This article provides a comprehensive and balanced assessment of that reform effort, suggesting dramatic improvements in the system. But work remains: Vocational rehabilitation, labor-management collaboration, and cost-containment are especially in need of improvement
Flight data analysis of power subsystem degradation at near synchronous altitude Quarterly report
Flight data analysis of spacecraft power subsystem degradation at near synchronous altitud
Flight data analysis of power subsystem degradation at near synchronous altitude Final report
Comparison and analysis of radiation damage to power supplies of satellites at near-synchronous altitude
Public Collaboration in Maine: When and Why It Works
Government by itself cannot address all complex public policy issues. The authors write that “public collaboÂration” can alter the discourse on divisive local, regional, and state issues. Public collaboration is a process in which people from multiple sectors (government, business, nonprofit, civic, and tribal) work together to find solutions to problems that no single sector is able to resolve on its own. The authors describe the common features of effective public collaboration and provide detailed case studies and analysis of five recent examples of public collaboration in Maine
Is Social Psychology Really Different?
Gergen (1976), outlines a number of problems that make it difficult to apply general social psychological the ories, or to assess their validity unequivocally. These dif ficulties are not unique to social psychology, however. The application of general scientific principles has never been a simple matter, not even in the well-established physical sci ences. Moreover, there are formidable difficulties in asses sing general theoretical propositions in every field of in quiry, since empirical procedures will inevitably depend on assumptions about local field conditions, the adequacy of meas urement techniques, and the like. As a consequence, if re sults are inconsistent with theoretical expectations, there will always be some uncertainty as to where the problem lies. Social psychologists should not assume that their difficulties are totally unlike those encountered in other fields of sci entific inquiry. The problems raised by Gergen do not, con sequently, rule out the possible development and application of general social psychological theories.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69124/2/10.1177_014616727600200417.pd
A personalized Uncertainty Quantification framework for patient survival models: estimating individual uncertainty of patients with metastatic brain tumors in the absence of ground truth
TodevelopanovelUncertaintyQuantification (UQ) framework to estimate the
uncertainty of patient survival models in the absence of ground truth, we
developed and evaluated our approach based on a dataset of 1383 patients
treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases between
January 2015 and December 2020. Our motivating hypothesis is that a
time-to-event prediction of a test patient on inference is more certain given a
higher feature-space-similarity to patients in the training set. Therefore, the
uncertainty for a particular patient-of-interest is represented by the
concordance index between a patient similarity rank and a prediction similarity
rank. Model uncertainty was defined as the increased percentage of the max
uncertainty-constrained-AUC compared to the model AUC. We evaluated our method
on multiple clinically-relevant endpoints, including time to intracranial
progression (ICP), progression-free survival (PFS) after SRS, overall survival
(OS), and time to ICP and/or death (ICPD), on a variety of both statistical and
non-statistical models, including CoxPH, conditional survival forest (CSF), and
neural multi-task linear regression (NMTLR). Our results show that all models
had the lowest uncertainty on ICP (2.21%) and the highest uncertainty (17.28%)
on ICPD. OS models demonstrated high variation in uncertainty performance,
where NMTLR had the lowest uncertainty(1.96%)and CSF had the highest
uncertainty (14.29%). In conclusion, our method can estimate the uncertainty of
individual patient survival modeling results. As expected, our data empirically
demonstrate that as model uncertainty measured via our technique increases, the
similarity between a feature-space and its predicted outcome decreases
Psychotherapy in historical perspective
This article will briefly explore some of the ways in which the past has been used as a means to talk about psychotherapy as a practice and as a profession, its impact on individuals and society, and the ethical debates at stake. It will show how, despite the multiple and competing claims about psychotherapy’s history and its meanings, historians themselves have, to a large degree, not attended to the intellectual and cultural development of many therapeutic approaches. This absence has the potential consequence of implying that therapies have emerged as value-free techniques, outside of a social, economic and political context. The relative neglect of psychotherapy, by contrast with the attention historians have paid to other professions, particularly psychiatry, has also underplayed its societal impact. This article will foreground some of the instances where psychotherapy has become an object of emerging historical interest, including the new research that forms the substance of this special issue of History of the Human Sciences
Neurology
Contains reports on eight research projects.U.S. Navy (Office of Naval Research (Nonr-1841(70))U. S. Public Health Service (MH-06175-02)U. S. Air Force (AF49(638)-1313)U. S. Public Health Service (B-3055-4)U. S. Public Health Service (B-3090-4
Aminotransferases activity in the hemolymph of Bradybaena similaris (Gastropoda, Xanthonychidae) under starvation
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