The VA Health Care System: An Unrecognized National Safety Net

The dominance of local health care markets in conjunction with variable public funding results in a national patchwork of "safety nets" and beneficiaries in the United States rather than a uniform system. This DataWatch describes how the recently reorganized Department of Veterans Affairs serves as a coordinated, national safety-net provider and characterizes the veterans who are not supported by the market-based system

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The construction and administration of a questionnaire on children's reaction to educational television

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Employing and Accommodating Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries

This brochure on individuals with spinal cord injuries and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is one of a series on human resources practices and workplace accommodations for persons with disabilities edited by Susanne M. Bruyère, Ph.D., CRC, SPHR, Director, Program on Employment and Disability, School of Industrial and Labor Relations – Extension Division, Cornell University. Cornell University was funded in the early 1990’s by the U.S. Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research as a National Materials Development Project on the employment provisions (Title I) of the ADA (Grant #H133D10155). These updates, and the development of new brochures, have been funded by Cornell’s Program on Employment and Disability and the Pacific Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center

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Aging Group Consciousness: An Empirical Test

Since the beginning of this century the percentage of older people in the population has more than doubled, and their absolute number is expected to reach twenty-four million by 1980. Sheer numbers, plus new conditions and problems affecting the aged have greatly Increased awareness of aging as a social and a sociological problem

Personality traits, self -efficacy of job performance, and susceptibility to stress as predictors of academic performance of nurse education programs

The United States is experiencing a shortage of registered nurses, and institutions of higher education are unable to graduate enough prepared nurses to reduce this employment shortage. A significant relationship between personality traits and academic performance has been found; however, how personality traits combine with students\u27 self-efficacy of job performance and stress susceptibility to impact nursing students\u27 academic performance has yet to be demonstrated. This study, grounded in the five-factor model (FFM) of personality traits, self-efficacy, and stress theories, sought to determine whether self-assessments of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory, the Nursing Practice Self-Efficacy survey, and the Susceptibility Under Stress Survey would predict academic performance, as measured by grade point average (GPA). The sample consisted of 197 nursing students attending 2-year nurse education programs at 3 community colleges in the northeastern United States. This correlational, quantitative study examined the relationship among the personality traits of the FFM, self-efficacy of job performance, stress susceptibility, and the GPAs of nursing students. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the strength of the relationship among the variables. Self-efficacy and conscientiousness were significant predictors of GPA. Given that nurse education programs are a rigorous field of study with high attrition rates, the implications for social change include the addition of specific types of support for nursing students to facilitate their progress and success in a competitive degree program that will benefit them and address the nursing shortage, which ultimately benefits hospitals and patients

Germination and Early Survival of \u3cem\u3ePicea rubens\u3c/em\u3e Sargent in Experimental Laboratory and Field Plantings

The Problem: In the Smoky Mountains Pica rubens Sarg. (red spruce) occurs at elevations which suggest that it should occur further south than it does. Whittaker (1956) describes the potential altitudinal range of the spruce-fir forest as being in the southwestern Smoky mountains. High elevation deciduous forest with reduced stature, and perhaps well beyond their favorable conditions of temperature and growing season, have replaced the sub-alpine forest type. If, as has been suggested by Whittaker (1956) and Mark (1958), historical factors based on changes of climate in geological time have eliminated the red spruce southward, then a modern man-made range extension today might be successful. The objectives of this study are: (1) to determine first-year seed germination and survival of red spruce in four areas above 4000 feet in the Southern Appalachian Mountains outside the natural range of red spruce, using four seed sources; (2) to correlate effects of altitude, slope, soil and seed source with germination and survival in the field; (3) to compare red spruce seed germination on varying substrata and regulated soil pH\u27s at different depths of planting under controlled conditions in the laboratory; (4) to compare red spruce seed germination under controlled conditions in the laboratory with field germination; (5) to determine red spruce seedling growth at varying elevations in the Smoky Mountains

Literary Equivocation: Women Playwrights and the Early Modern “Closet”

In general, “closet dramas,” because they have been falsely considered failed stage plays, have received minimal scholarly attention. This dissertation situates itself as a re-evaluation of female authors’ manuscript and printed plays: Elizabeth Cary’s Mariam, Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Brackley’s The Concealed Fancies, Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure and Anne Finches’ Aristomenes, Or The Royal Shepherd. These plays use the coded rhetorical tool of literary equivocation to conceal yet reveal subversive political information which would attract the attention of the censor if acted upon the stage