Why Have Youth from Different Neighborhoods of Durban, South Africa Developed Different Opinions Regarding the Role and Importance of Voting in the Current State of South African Democracy?

The field of political science has become increasingly interested in the electoral participatory habits of young people in recent decades, and in post-apartheid South Africa more specifically in light of the recent and ongoing #feesmustfall movement within the nation\u27s tertiary institutions. Since 1994, South Africa has made a great deal of progress towards dismantling the apartheid system; however, vast inequalities remain and many, mostly black African communities have not yet reaped the rewards of a democratic South Africa. Using qualitative data gathered from three focus groups, this paper examines why youth from black African township communities of Durban, South Africa view electoral participation more negatively and with greater skepticism than youth living in historically white communities. Two independent variables gleaned from the literature are used to explain these different perspectives: the quality of one\u27s civic education and persisting racial socioeconomic inequality

Shock, but no Shift: Hospitals\u27 Responses to Changes in Patient Insurance Mix

Medicaid reimburses healthcare providers for services at a lower rate than any other type of insurance coverage. To account for the burden of treating Medicaid patients, providers claim that they must cost-shift by raising the rates of individuals covered by private insurance. Previous investigations of cost-shifting has produced mixed results. In this paper, I exploit a disabled Medicaid expansion where crowd-out was complete to investigate cost-shifting. I find that hospitals reduce the charge rates of the privately insured. Given that Medicaid is expanding in several states under the Affordable Care Act, these results may alleviate cost-shifting concerns of the reform

Medicaid Expansions for the Working Age Disabled: Revisiting the Crowd-out of Private Health Insurance

Disabled individuals under 65 years old account for 15% of Medicaid recipients but half of all Medicaid spending. Despite their large cost, few studies have investigated the effects of Medicaid expansions for disabled individuals on insurance coverage and crowd-out of private insurance. Using an eligibility expansion that allowed states to provide Medicaid to disabled individuals with incomes less than 100% of the federal poverty level, I address these issues. Crowd-out estimates range from 49% using an ordinary least squares procedure to 100% using two-stage least-squares analysis. This potentially large degree of crowd-out could have fiscal implications for the Affordable Care Act which has greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2014

Scriptural Roots Grow Strong

This article looks at five areas where Scriptural truth shines through in Louisa May Alcott\u27s Little Women

Altered Perspective

This paper analyzes Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations by discussing how and why Pip’s perspective on social classes and individual morality changes as a result of the various characters and events he encounters throughout the novel

Transition metal oxides using quantum Monte Carlo

The transition metal-oxygen bond appears prominently throughout chemistry and solid-state physics. Many materials, from biomolecules to ferroelectrics to the components of supernova remnants contain this bond in some form. Many of these materials' properties strongly depend on fine details of the TM-O bond and intricate correlation effects, which make accurate calculations of their properties very challenging. We present quantum Monte Carlo, an explicitly correlated class of methods, to improve the accuracy of electronic structure calculations over more traditional methods like density functional theory. We find that unlike s-p type bonding, the amount of hybridization of the d-p bond in TM-O materials is strongly dependant on electronic correlation.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, to appear as a topical review in J. Physics: Condensed Matte

Collapsible loop antenna for space vehicle Patent

Collapsible, space erectable loop antenna system for space vehicl

Exclusive neutrino-production of a charmed meson

We calculate the leading order in $\alpha_s$ QCD amplitude for exclusive neutrino and antineutrino production of a $D$ pseudoscalar charmed meson on an unpolarized nucleon. We work in the framework of the collinear QCD approach where generalized parton distributions (GPDs) factorize from perturbatively calculable coefficient functions. We include both $O(m_c)$ terms in the coefficient functions and $O(M_D)$ mass term contributions in the heavy meson distribution amplitudes. We emphasize the sensitivity of specific observables on the transversity quark GPDs.Comment: 17 pages,16 figures. Version 2, to be published in Phys Rev D, misprint corrected in unnumbered equation after eq.43, plots corrected after numerical bug repaire