A study of patients discharged improved who returned for further treatment to the Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Two Poems

Poetry by Dan MacIsaa

Mandatory severance pay : its coverage and effects in Peru

In Peru, as in many other developing countries, employers have the legal obligation to compensate workers who are dismissed through no fault of their own. Is this an efficient mechanism for providing income support to the unemployed? The authors seek an answer to this question, using individual records from a household survey with a panel structure. Relying on five coverage indicators, they show that roughly one in five workers in the private sector, and one in three wage earners in the private sector, is legally entitled to severance pay. Coverage is more prevalent among wealthier workers. Results based on several empirical strategies suggest that workers"pay"for their entitlement to severance pay through lower wages. Consumption among unemployed workers who receive severance pay is 20 to 30 percent greater than among those who do not. Consumption among these workers is actually higher than consumption among employed workers, suggesting that mandatory severance pay is overgenerous in Peru.Public Health Promotion,Labor Policies,Social Protections&Assistance,Wages, Compensation&Benefits,Environmental Economics&Policies,Wages, Compensation&Benefits,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Social Protections&Assistance,Inequality

Medicare\u27s August Rule: Necessary Step Toward Minimizing Federal Spending or Overbroad Decision Leading to Higher Malpractice Costs?

Recently, the federal agency that administers Medicare decided that, beginning in 2008, Medicare will no longer pay for certain patient conditions acquired in the hospital that are deemed preventable. Patient safety advocates support this pronouncement because it gives health care providers an additional reason to avoid the occurrence of these conditions. Some physicians, however, believe that the decision was too overbroad because of its inclusion of certain infections and bedsores that are not always preventable for all patients. Because some conditions involved are not preventable, the occurrence of a condition should be presented in the same manner as other evidence in a malpractice case, through expert testimony

Alien Registration- Macisaac, Joseph (Lincoln, Penobscot County)

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Magnetic history dependence of metastable states in systems with dipolar interactions

We present the results of a Monte Carlo simulation of the ground state and magnetic relaxation of a model of a thin film consisting on a two-dimensional square lattice of Heisenberg spins with perpendicular anisotropy K, exchange J and long-range dipolar interactions g. We have studied the ground state configurations of this system for a wide range of the interaction parameters J/g, K/g by means of the simulated annealing procedure, showing that the model is able to reproduce the different magnetic configurations found in real samples. We have found the existence of a certain range of K/g, J/g values for which in-plane and out-of-plane configurations are quasi-degenerated in energy. We show that when a system in this region of parameters is perturbed by an external force that is subsequently removed different kinds of ordering may be induced depending on the followed procedure. In particular, simulations of relaxations from saturation under an a.c. demagnetizing field or in zero field are in qualitative agreement with recent experiments on epitaxial and granular alloy thin films, which show a wide variety of magnetic patterns depending on their magnetic history.Comment: Invited paper to 3rd EuroConference on Magnetic Properties of Fine Nanoparticles, Barcelona, October 99. To be published in JMMM (References included 22-Dec-1999

Common Sense About the Age of Statutes

A Review of A Common Law for the Age of Statutes by Guido Calabres

Group Separation and Classification of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in a University Student Population

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has gained an increasing amount of attention in the research literature since being included as topic for future research in the DSM-5 (APA, 2013). Currently, two models of NSSI exist, and both place a primacy on the role of the behaviour in regulating negative affect (Chapman et al., 2006; Nock, 2009). Past research has shown that there is considerable heterogeneity in the contextual, functional, and psychiatric profiles of people engaging in this behaviour (Klonsky & Olino, 2008). This underlying heterogeneity likely indicates that distinct sub-populations of people engaging in NSSI exist based on these factors. In the current study, university students were placed into three groups based on the last episode of NSSI (e.g., no history, proximal episode or past year, and distal episode or not within past year) and these groups were separated based on responses to variables covering personality, emotionality, emotion regulation, impulsivity, psychopathology, resiliency, mindfulness, and self-compassion. Results revealed that the NSSI-Proximal year group was best separated from the other two groups by a linear discriminant function conceptualized as compassionate self-care. Higher scores on the function were more indicative of participants in both NSSI groupings. However, results from a MANOVA revealed no significant difference between No NSSI and the NSSI-Distal group on the variables. The results from the study provide additional support for the importance of identifying NSSI sub-groups in order to improvement the prevention and treatment of non-suicidal self-injury