Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services in Medicaid: A Review of Four State Programs

Discusses eligibility for and use of Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services, which give beneficiaries control over the hiring, scheduling, training and paying of personal care attendants, in California, Colorado, New York, and Virginia

Latency and player actions in online games

The growth and penetration of broadband access networks to the home has fueled the growth of online games played over the Internet. As we write this article, it is 5am on a typical weekday morning and Gamespy Arcade 1 reports more than 250,000 players online playing about 75,000 games! This proliferation of online games has been matched by an equivalent growth in both th

Costs and Benefits of Eliminating the Medicare Waiting Period for SSDI Beneficiaries

Examines how the two-year waiting period for Medicare eligibility affects disabled workers and how eliminating it would affect costs, private coverage crowd-out, and demand for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Considers broader implications

Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services Programs in Medicaid: Insights From Enrollees in Four States

Discusses enrollees' experiences with taking control of their personal care services under the Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services program, including recruitment issues, degree of responsibility, and closeness to their care workers

Consequences of Proportional Systems in Architecture

The system of architecture inscribed by Vitruvius in De Architectura and famously drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, as well as Cesar Cesariano after him in 1521, has provided modern architecture and art historians with argumentation for placing the architectural object at the centre of a system of relations between symmetry, geometry and proportion. When one looks at the last 100 years, this system of relations can be seen to have regulated, in varying ways, architectural design methodology since its ‘rediscovery’ and re-inscription into architectural discourse in the middle of the 20th century by the architecture and art historians, such as Rudolf Wittkower in his book Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949) and the essays by Colin Rowe titled “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa” (Architectural Review, 1947) and “Mannerism and Modernism” (Architectural Review, 1950). This paper, which is a work-in-progress excerpt from PhD research by the author, argues that these works established a dominant fiction(1) in the discipline of architecture, or a way for architects to perceive and interpret the built environment. However, with advances in the technology of production in the last twenty years, and, in parallel, the development of contemporary discourses of computation and digital design in relationship to the natural sciences, this system can be questioned and the dialogue between forms of production, systems of proportion and architecture re-opened.1 – The term ‘dominant fiction’ was outlined in Silverman, Kaja. Male Subjectivities at the Margin, Psychology Press (1992)

Capitol Coin: Number of Cryptocurrency Lobbyists Nearly Tripled Since 2018 and Spending Quadrupled, With Help from Revolving Door Lobbyists and Corporate Allies

Cryptocurrency speculation mania has seized a subset of Americans and a small army of crypto lobbyists has descended on Congress. Among the crypto proponents pushing the industry's interests in Washington, D.C. are scores of revolving door lobbyists and officials, including the former heads of multiple financial regulation agencies under former president Donald Trump. Recent disclosures offer an eye-opening look at this volatile industry's rapidly escalating lobbying presence