The California deposit rate mystery

Bank deposits ; Interest ; Banks and banking - California ; California

Public health and the economy could be served by reallocating medical expenditures to social programs.

As much as 30% of US health care spending in the United States does not improve individual or population health. To a large extent this excess spending results from prices that are too high and from administrative waste. In the public sector, and particularly at the state level, where budget constraints are severe and reluctance to raise taxes high, this spending crowds out social, educational, and public-health investments. Over time, as spending on medical care increases, spending on improvements to the social determinants of health are starved. In California the fraction of General Fund expenditures spent on public health and social programs fell from 34.8% in fiscal year 1990 to 21.4% in fiscal year 2014, while health care increased from 14.1% to 21.3%. In spending more on healthcare and less on other efforts to improve health and health determinants, the state is missing important opportunities for health-promoting interventions with a strong financial return. Reallocating ineffective medical expenditures to proven and cost-effective public health and social programs would not be easy, but recognizing its potential for improving the public's health while saving taxpayers billions of dollars might provide political cover to those willing to engage in genuine reform. National estimates of the percent of medical spending that does not improve health suggest that approximately $5 billion of California's public budget for medical spending has no positive effect on health. Up to 10,500 premature deaths could be prevented annually by reallocating this portion of medical spending to public health. Alternatively, the same expenditure could help an additional 418,000 high school students to graduate

HOME HEALTH MONITORING: An in-depth look into designing the next generation of health technology for older adults living at home

The changing landscape of healthcare regulation, shifting needs of an aging population and recent growth in the digital health marketplace have placed home health monitoring and its associative technologies at the forefront of discussion for both consumers and companies. Organizations across the country are looking to identify the next big breakthrough in the healthcare industry and capitalize on sizable gains in investment. However, there remains significant disparities between the goals of the industry and the fragmented solutions currently available. This paper utilizes literature research, stakeholder interviews, company comparisons and an evaluation of the regulatory environment to build a robust framework from which to structure future innovation in the digital home health monitoring space. Findings indicate that by engaging key stakeholders (patients/informal caregivers/providers) and attending to their top needs (social engagement/care-life balance/treatment adherence, respectively) through the use personalized, communicative, and integrated designs, home health monitoring technologies can have substantial value at the industry level. Specifically, products that address informal caregivers’ challenges associated with managing medication for older adults by building strong cross-stakeholder relationships through communicative means are likely to have the greatest impact in the next 5-10 years.Master of Healthcare Administratio

Latte: Lightweight Aliasing Tracking for Java

Many existing systems track aliasing and uniqueness, each with their own trade-off between expressiveness and developer effort. We propose Latte, a new approach that aims to minimize both the amount of annotations and the complexity of invariants necessary for reasoning about aliasing in an object-oriented language with mutation. Our approach only requires annotations for parameters and fields, while annotations for local variables are inferred. Furthermore, it relaxes uniqueness to allow aliasing among local variables, as long as this aliasing can be precisely determined. This enables support for destructive reads without changes to the language or its run-time semantics. Despite this simplicity, we show how this design can still be used for tracking uniqueness and aliasing in a local sequential setting, with practical applications, such as modeling a stack

Computer simulation of boundary effects on bubble growth in metals due to He.

Atomistic simulation methods were used to investigate and identify the relevant physical mechanisms necessary to describe the growth of helium gas bubbles within a metal lattice. Specifically, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to examine the material defects that originate from growing spherical He bubbles in a palladium crystal. These simulations consist of a model system containing bubbles within a metal and near a free surface. The simulation code employed was ParaDyn using the Embedded Atom Method to model the constitutive properties of Pd atoms in a FCC lattice. The results of these simulations are compared with previously run calculations of He bubbles in a bulk lattice [l]. These simulations show the influence of the free surface on defect creation and evolution. Features compared include the formation of inter-bubble dislocations, bubble pressure and swelling as functions of He to metal (He/M) concentration

Street Corner Symphony

Street Corner Symphony is an a cappella group based out of Nashville, Tennessee. They became internationally known in 2010 after becoming runners up on Season 2 of NBC\u27s all vocal competition, The Sing-Off. Their music covers a wide range of style, appealing to young and old alike.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1954/thumbnail.jp

Wayfinding and Navigation for People with Disabilities Using Social Navigation Networks

To achieve safe and independent mobility, people usually depend on published information, prior experience, the knowledge of others, and/or technology to navigate unfamiliar outdoor and indoor environments. Today, due to advances in various technologies, wayfinding and navigation systems and services are commonplace and are accessible on desktop, laptop, and mobile devices. However, despite their popularity and widespread use, current wayfinding and navigation solutions often fail to address the needs of people with disabilities (PWDs). We argue that these shortcomings are primarily due to the ubiquity of the compute-centric approach adopted in these systems and services, where they do not benefit from the experience-centric approach. We propose that following a hybrid approach of combining experience-centric and compute-centric methods will overcome the shortcomings of current wayfinding and navigation solutions for PWDs