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Exploring a Learning Experience through an Internship: Embold Health Inc.
Embold Health Inc. is a start-up company created by leading physicians who saw a rising need in health care for accurate and comprehensive data regarding the quality, cost effectiveness, and appropriateness of care. Using one of the largest most comprehensive data sets in the United States and analytics lead by top scientist and physicians in the field, they are able to formulate a measurement of physician performance aimed at improving health care and outcomes for patients. Providing this data to employers, insurers and providers allows for a push to improve quality of non-recommended providers, reward for providers offering quality care and evaluates cost for the benefit of employers and payers. In the following subsections, I will discuss various areas that I devoted my learning to throughout this internship. The first area of focus was to develop a greater understanding of the United States Health Care System, employee-sponsored health insurance, and the rising health care costs affecting millions of Americans. Next gaining a comprehensive knowledge of the Embold Health methodology and how it is being used to further health care reform and quality improvement. Finally, a summary of my learning experience throughout my internship at Embold Health Inc
The European Parliament : leadership and 'followership'
The weakened European Commission and the increasingly assertive European Council and Council of Ministers have contended for control of agenda-setting but it is in the sphere of foreign and security policy that the EU's logic of leaderlessness has been most conspicuous
Early days : the European parliament, codecision and the European union legislative process post-Maastricht
Since the European Parliament's first vote on a Council common position submitted under the co-decision procedure in January 1994 the practice of co-decision has been scrutinized carefully within Parliament and the other European Union (EU) institutions. However, such scrutiny has produced differing interpretations. This article seeks to assess these respective claims by analysing the first thirty-two legislative proposals processed under co-decision, and so to make an initial assessment of the legislative impact of the European Parliament under the new procedure. Under co-decision Parliament is a more equal partner in the EU's legislative process, and now has a rightful place alongside Council in several important policy areas - despite the weighting of the procedure towards Council. Certainly, informal inter-institutional linkages have expanded as a result of co-decision and, whatever their qualitative effect, there has been an undeniable quantitative increase in the interactions between Parliament and Council. The net result of the dialogue between Parliament and Council is the confirmation of an increasingly bipartite bargaining process and this, in turn, has placed the Commission in a considerably more ambiguous, and weaker, position than in the co-operation or consultation procedures
âRelais actorsâ and co-decision first reading agreements in the European Parliament : the case of the advanced therapies regulation
The processing of the advanced therapies regulation is of particular interest to scholars of the European Union's (EU) legislative process and students of the European Parliament (EP) because it provides a case study which throws light upon assumptions commonly made about the role of the EP's ârelais actorsâ, the promotion of consensus-building within and between parliamentary committees, and the development of intraorganizational rules in response to early agreements in the co-decision procedure. An examination of the EP's processing of the advanced therapies dossier provides an âunusualâ but vivid illustration of how the identification of committee rapporteurs as the most important parliamentary ârelais actorsâ fails to capture the increasingly important roles performed by shadow rapporteurs. Significantly, the âunusualâ occurrences associated with the processing of the advanced therapies regulation came at a crucial juncture in the reconsideration of the EP's intraorganizational rules in relation to early agreements and the subsequent adoption of new Rules of Procedure in 2009
Stability of an electroweak string with a fermion condensate
A solution of the standard electroweak theory with a single lepton family is
constructed, consisting of a cosmic string and a fermion condensate within its
core. The stability of this system to small perturbations is examined, and it
is found that stability is not enhanced relative to the bare electroweak
string. The presence of quark zero modes is shown to violate the existence
criteria for embedded defects.Comment: 13 pages, preprint DAMTP 94-9, SWAT/2
Dilational Viscosity of Langmuir monolayers
The dilational viscosity of Langmuir monolayer is considered in a
theoretical model taking into account an orientational effect of the dilational
wave on surface molecules. This orientational order is described by the surface
order parameter Q; the orientational part of the free surface energy is given
by Landau's expansion in powers of Q. The magnitude of surface viscosity,
driven by the surface tension derivative , is in
good accord with the experimentally observed . The sign of
is positive that indicates that increased in-plane ordering
increases the surface tension.Comment: 11 pages, 2 Postscript figures, submitted to Physica A (September
1998
Magnetic trapping of neutral particles: Classical and Quantum-mechanical study of a Ioffe-Pritchard type trap
Recently, we developed a method for calculating the lifetime of a particle
inside a magnetic trap with respect to spin flips, as a first step in our
efforts to understand the quantum-mechanics of magnetic traps. The 1D toy model
that was used in this study was physically unrealistic because the magnetic
field was not curl-free. Here, we study, both classically and
quantum-mechanically, the problem of a neutral particle with spin S, mass m and
magnetic moment mu, moving in 3D in an inhomogeneous magnetic field
corresponding to traps of the Ioffe-Pritchard, `clover-leaf' and `baseball'
type. Defining by omega_p, omega_z and omega_r the precessional, the axial and
the lateral vibrational frequencies, respectively, of the particle in the
adiabatic potential, we find classically the region in the $(\omega_{r}%
(omega_r -- omega_z) plane where the particle is trapped.
Quantum-mechanically, we study the problem of a spin-one particle in the same
field. Treating omega_r / omega_p and omega_z / omega_p as small parameters for
the perturbation from the adiabatic Hamiltonian, we derive a closed-form
expression for the transition rate 1/T_{esc} of the particle from its trapped
ground-state. We find that in the extreme cases, the expression for 1/T_{esc}
is dominated by the largest of the two frequencies omega_r and omega_z.Comment: 25 pages + 1 EPS figur
Habitual Drunkards and Metaphysics : Four Case Studies from the Victorian Period
The article considers four examples from the nineteenth century when the stereotype of the habitual drunkard appears to give way to a figure that bears closer resemblance to the twentieth centuryâs âExistential
drinker.â These case studies offer different illustrations of a newly emerging metaphysical landscape around heavy drinking. First, in the 1872 Select Committee on Habitual Drunkards, the panel cannot understand why a repeat offender would choose to drink rather than be cared for. Second, the heroine of George Eliotâs tale âJanetâs Repentanceâ encounters a spiritual âdespairâ through her drinking habit. Third, a group of pictures by the artist HonorĂ© Daumier features two drinkers in what are here interpreted as Existential tableaux. Fourth, Ămile Zolaâs novel LâAssommoir is read as one of the first sustained accounts of excessive drinking that is both a visceral response to conditions under industrial capitalism, while also latching onto a type of metaphysical unsettling prompted by such drinking
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