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Advocacy Coalition Framework Lens on Pressing Healthcare Issues
In deciding how to interpret and understand public policy, many experts use theories and frameworks to justify their reasoning. One of the most common avenue of viewing policy involves the advocacy coalition framework based on its broad applicability. This popular framework consists of banding like-minded individuals together into a coalition to advance the narrative by creating acceptable policies for their group. These coalitions normally include a wide range of professional backgrounds from interest groups, elected officials, researchers in academia. These groups utilize special events to influence subfields consisting of actors who decide the solutions for policy problems. Subfields normally are made up of key players employed in government institutions and private industrial groups who willingly agree to work toward a compromise with the goal to create policy acceptable for both sides (Cairney 2014) These coalitions influence the subfield in different ways through capitalizing on their influential power or by ignoring the alliances and mergers of the groups. This paper shall explore how advocacy coalition framework works for three pressing issues facing the healthcare industry. These three policies focus on drug pricing, heath data privacy and opioid liability. This paper will explore the policy in depth, provide historical context and the major players while outlining how the specific proposals fit in the framework as well as identifying the framework’s limitations with the policy
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Geovisualization of household energy consumption characteristics
A vast amount of quantitative data is available within the energy sector, however, there is limited understanding of the relationships between neighbourhoods, demographic characteristics and domestic energy consumption habits. We report upon research that will combine datasets relating to energy consumption, saving and loss with geodemographics to enable better understanding of energy user types. A novel interactive interface is planned to evaluate the performance of these energy-based classifications. The research aims to help local governments and the energy industry in targeting households and populations for new energy saving schemes and in improving efforts to promote sustainable energy consumption. Energy based neighbourhood classifications will also promote consumption awareness amongst domestic users. This poster describes the research methodology, data sources and visualization requirements
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Do Local Information Systems Hide the Bigger Picture? An analytical approach to measuring the strength of local boundaries
Evidence for the Strong Effect of Gas Removal on the Internal Dynamics of Young Stellar Clusters
We present detailed luminosity profiles of the young massive clusters M82-F,
NGC 1569-A, and NGC 1705-1 which show significant departures from equilibrium
(King and EFF) profiles. We compare these profiles with those from N-body
simulations of clusters which have undergone the rapid removal of a significant
fraction of their mass due to gas expulsion. We show that the observations and
simulations agree very well with each other suggesting that these young
clusters are undergoing violent relaxation and are also losing a significant
fraction of their stellar mass. That these clusters are not in equilibrium can
explain the discrepant mass-to-light ratios observed in many young clusters
with respect to simple stellar population models without resorting to
non-standard initial stellar mass functions as claimed for M82-F and NGC
1705-1. We also discuss the effect of rapid gas removal on the complete
disruption of a large fraction of young massive clusters (``infant
mortality''). Finally we note that even bound clusters may lose >50% of their
initial stellar mass due to rapid gas loss (``infant weight-loss'').Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, MNRAS letters, accepte
Finite dimensional irreducible representations of finite W-algebras associated to even multiplicity nilpotent orbits in classical Lie algebras
We consider finite W-algebras U(g,e) associated to even multiplicity
nilpotent elements in classical Lie algebras. We give a classification of
finite dimensional irreducible U(g,e)-modules with integral central character
in terms of the highest weight theory for finite W-algebras. As a corollary, we
obtain a parametrization of primitive ideals of U(g) with associated variety
the closure of the adjoint orbit of e and integral central character.Comment: 38 Pages; made some minor correction
A robust method for measuring the Hubble parameter
We obtain a robust, non-parametric, estimate of the Hubble constant from
galaxy linear diameters calibrated using HST Cepheid distances. Our method is
independent of the parametric form of the diameter function and the spatial
distribution of galaxies and is insensitive to Malmquist bias. We include
information on the galaxy rotation velocities; unlike Tully-Fisher, however, we
retain a fully non-parametric treatment. We find km/s/Mpc,
somewhat larger than previous results using galaxy diameters.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, Cosmic Flows Workshop, Victoria B.C. Canada, July
1999, ed. S. Courteau, M. Strauss & J. Willick, ASP conf. serie
Star Cluster Survival in Star Cluster Complexes under Extreme Residual Gas Expulsion
After the stars of a new, embedded star cluster have formed they blow the
remaining gas out of the cluster. Especially winds of massive stars and
definitely the on-set of the first supernovae can remove the residual gas from
a cluster. This leads to a very violent mass-loss and leaves the cluster out of
dynamical equilibrium. Standard models predict that within the cluster volume
the star formation efficiency (SFE) has to be about 33 per cent for sudden
(within one crossing-time of the cluster) gas expulsion to retain some of the
stars in a bound cluster. If the efficiency is lower the stars of the cluster
disperse mostly. Recent observations reveal that in strong star bursts star
clusters do not form in isolation but in complexes containing dozens and up to
several hundred star clusters, i.e. in super-clusters. By carrying out
numerical experiments for such objects placed at distances >= 10 kpc from the
centre of the galaxy we demonstrate that under these conditions (i.e. the
deeper potential of the star cluster complex and the merging process of the
star clusters within these super-clusters) the SFEs can be as low as 20 per
cent and still leave a gravitationally bound stellar population. Such an object
resembles the outer Milky Way globular clusters and the faint fuzzy star
clusters recently discovered in NGC 1023.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Ap
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