Recommended Core Measures for Evaluating the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Cost, Utilization, and Clinical Quality

Outlines the process of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Evaluators' Collaborative for identifying core standardized measures and their recommended principles and measures for evaluating cost and utilization and clinical quality

Message Reduction in the LOCAL Model Is a Free Lunch

A new spanner construction algorithm is presented, working under the LOCAL model with unique edge IDs. Given an n-node communication graph, a spanner with a constant stretch and O(n^{1 + epsilon}) edges (for an arbitrarily small constant epsilon > 0) is constructed in a constant number of rounds sending O(n^{1 + epsilon}) messages whp. Consequently, we conclude that every t-round LOCAL algorithm can be transformed into an O(t)-round LOCAL algorithm that sends O(t * n^{1 + epsilon}) messages whp. This improves upon all previous message-reduction schemes for LOCAL algorithms that incur a log^{Omega (1)} n blow-up of the round complexity

The Limits of Equality and the Virtues of Discrimination

This article focuses on the application of antidiscrimination regimes to groups which have been discriminated-against de jure and de facto. This Article approaches diverges from the dominant view that discrimination is a purely destructive force. The central argument of the Article is that de jure, overt and blatant discrimination necessarily contributes to the creation of a coherent group identity recognized by law, which enables groups that are discriminated against to obtain remedial relief. In contrast, the law fails to recognize a coherent group identity for de facto discriminated-against groups and thus these groups have to overcome a structural challenge to obtain remedial relief to counter the discrimination. Thus, strangely, groups that are discriminated against de jure might be better off than groups that are discriminated against only de facto once one considers both the discriminatory and the remedial phases. After establishing the de jure/de facto distinction, the article explores the effects of this distinction on the equal protection claims of discriminated-against groups by contrasting the experiences of African-Americans and Mexican-Americans

The Limits of Equality - Wishing for Discrimination?

The Limits of Equality – Wishing for Discrimination? Yifat Bitton Abstract The article focuses on the different manner in which antidiscrimination regimes treat groups that have been discriminated-against de jure and de facto. The Article approaches the prerequisite of antidiscrimination laws that there be some past or on-going discrimination in a manner that diverges from the dominant view that discrimination is a purely destructive force. The central argument is that the way in which de jure, overt and blatant discrimination necessarily must create a coherent group identity recognized by law allows groups that are discriminated against in this manner to obtain remedial relief, whereas the law fails to recognize a coherent group identity for de facto discriminated-against groups and thus these groups have to overcome a structural challenge to obtain remedial relief to counter the discrimination. Thus, strangely, groups that are discriminated against de jure might be better off than groups that are discriminated against only de facto once one considers both the discriminatory and the remedial phases. After establishing the de jure/de facto distinction, the article explores the effects of this distinction on the equal protection claims of discriminated-against groups by contrasting the experiences of African-Americans and Mexican-Americans

Critique de Livre

  Le livre Clinical procedures in primary eyecare constitue une aide précieuse à l’enseignement destiné aux étudiants en optométrie. La 5e édition compte 324 pages et 9 chapitres portant sur les sujets suivants : optométrie fondée sur des données probantes (chapitre 1), techniques de communication (chapitre 2), procédures d’évaluation du système oculo-visuel (chapitre 3 à 7), variations de l’apparence d’un oeil normal (chapitre 8) et procédures d’examen physique (chapitre 9)