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A New Look At Heath-Care Reform, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The time is ripe for taking a new look at health-care reform. Between a free market and a governmental approach, the operation of market forces often proceeds more rapidly and more effectively in responding to serious problems than do the more ponderous decision-making mechanisms of the public sector. Indeed, often the reduction of governmental impediments to competition represents the most efficient and least costly solution. Medical care is no exception.

American Irish Newsletter - February 1995, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-012-H-014, Cecile Gevock-Delahaye, Sonya Kane

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-055-B-006, Elizabeth Laine

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-016-C-006, Garrett Silliman

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-020-D-027, Michael Kneppler

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-018-D-009, Daniel Contreras

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-053-E-011, Bevin Etheridge

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-053-B-007, Matthew Turek

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-014-E1995-006b, Christian Wells

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Lot-014-E1995-007b, Christian Wells

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Review Of Black Elk: Holy Man Of The Oglala, Gregory R. Campbell

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Dumb Bugs And Bright Noncooperative Players: Games, Context And Behavior, Thomas Quint, Martin Shubik, Dickey Yan

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Consider a repeated bimatrix game. We define “bugs” as players whose “strategy” is to react myopically to whatever the opponent did on the previous iteration. We believe that in some contexts this is a more realistic model of behavior than the standard “supremely rational” noncooperative game player. We consider possible outcome paths that can occur as the result of bugs playing a game. We also compare how bugs fare over a suitable “universe of games,” as compared with standard “Nash” players and “maximin” players.

Table Of Contents - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Contents: Articles

Book Reviews

News and Notes

Review Of Ogallala: Water For A Dry Land By John Opie, Stephen E. White

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Ogallala is as much about the need for achieving sustainable agriculture in America as it is about the issues surrounding the depletion of groundwater in the High Plains. In some ways, the Ogallala region simply serves as the setting for describing the problems of the energy intensive, high-tech oriented agriculture pervasive throughout much of the U.S. today. Only a portion of the Ogallala, that most impacted during the dust bowl era and extending from about Lubbock, Texas through southwestern Kansas, is treated systematically.

Evaluating Alternative Monetary Policy Rules, Ray C. Fair, E. Philip Howrey

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper examines monetary policy from an optimal control perspective. Three loss functions are minimized for each of three models, and the results are compared. The three loss functions target nominal growth, real growth, and inflation, respectively. The three models are a small structural model, a VAR model, and a large structural model. A numerical procedure is presented that can handle a variety of loss functions and models.

Conversation, Information, And Herd Behavior, Robert J. Shiller

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Experimental evidence shows that an important reason why people tend to imitate others, to exhibit “herd behavior” is that they assume that the others have information that justifies their actions. The information cascade models of Banerjee [1992] and Bikhchandani et al . [1992] are significant developments in showing some general equilibrium and welfare effects of such rational imitative behavior. But these models as specified may be of limited applicability since they assert that differences across groups in herd behavior can be attributed to the random decisions of first movers. Differences across groups in herd behavior might be explained more often …

A Bound On The Number Of Nash Equilibria In A Coordination Game, Thomas Quint, Martin Shubik

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We prove that a “nondegenerate” m × m coordination game can have at most 2 M - 1 Nash equilibria, where M = min( m,n ).

Beacon Light: February 1995, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud Clinic Agree to Integrate

Pediatric Special Care Unit Keeps Families Close to Home

Operating Statement

Lifeline Celebrates Anniversary

Peripheral Vascular Laboratory Receives Accreditation

Benet Place Construction in Progress

Clinical Psychology Intern Program Earns National Accreditation

Pittsburgh Catholic Deaf News, February 1995

Pittsburgh Catholic Deaf News

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Pittsburgh, PA.

Review Of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities In The Modern Americanwest By Carl Abbott, Eugene P. Moehring

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Carl Abbott enhances his reputation for excellence with this interpretive survey of the modern western city. He begins with World War II when heavy federal spending revitalized urban areas stagnating from twenty years of farm-mine depression. Abbott highlights the findings of Gerald Nash, Greg Hise and others while injecting his own scholarly insights at strategic points, a pattern that continues throughout the book. For example, he expands upon D. W. Meinig's concept of imperial Texas by extending Dallas-Fort Worth's range of influence far up into the Wyoming oil country. Then, building upon his own recently published work, Abbott develops further …

Review Of Colorado: The Place Of Nature, The Nature Of Place By Thomas P. Huber, A. David Hill

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Colorado contains profiles of twelve distinctive places, which like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, fit together to form a mosaic that helps describe and explain the state's natural and, to a lesser extent, human history. The opening chapter introduces the lay reader to the broad themes of the state's physical geography-geology, landforms, climate, and vegetation. These topics are then typically covered with specific reference to each of the place profiles that constitute the remaining twelve chapters.

The most intriguing aspect of the book is the selection of the twelve places. Huber said he chose them "to inform, tantalize, and …

Review Of Turning On Water With A Shovel: The Career Of Elwood Mead By James R. Kluger, James W. Hewitt

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Elwood Mead, like Elwood P. Dowd, saw things other people didn't. Both preferred the world of their imagination. But the resemblance ends there. Mead labored zealously for over 50 years to make his imaginary world a reality. And to a significant degree he was successful.

James R. Kluger, essentially revising his doctoral dissertation for publication, has traced the broad outlines of Mead's career as America's foremost proponent of irrigation. This is not a biography in the strict sense of the word. Kluger gives us no insights into Mead's character, or his family life. The work is confined to recounting, on …

Review Of Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos And Socioeconomic Change In Texas, 1850-1900 By Kenneth L. Stewart And Arnoldo De Leon, F. Arturo Rosales

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The main conclusion of this concise work is that Mexicans had more economic parity with Anglos in 1850 than at the end of the nineteenth century. Even though both groups chased opportunities offered by Texas' entry into the capitalist world system, the fortunes of Mexicans did not keep pace. By 1900, Mexicans lagged behind Anglos in property ownership, in capital wealth, in political power retention, and in educational attainments. Such a course is predictable; the thesis has often been aired prior to the publication of this work, not just about Texas but about other areas of the Southwest.

Volume 24, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

The Guardian, February 1, 1995, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Sixteen page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Psychosocial Predictors Of Health Risk Factors In Adolescents, Steve Sussman, Clyde W. Dent, Alan W. Stacy, Dee Burton, Brian R. Flay

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Previous research has confirmed the role of problem-behavior theory constructs as predictors of nonconventional behaviors such as adolescent drug abuse. No prospective study, however, has examined this theory's relevance to less extreme nonconventional adolescent behaviors, such as poor health practices. In the present study, an attempt was made to predict an index composed of seven health risk factor items measured in 8th grade from numerous variables measured in 7th grade selected to reflect personality, perceived environment, and behavior systems of problem-behavior theory. In addition, problem-behavior theory was compared in predictive efficacy to a wellness notion. Factor analysis did not support …

Water Regulation Decisions In Central Kansas Affecting Cheyenne Bottoms Wetland And Neighboring Farmers, Leslie Aileen Duram

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

A water use regulation order by the Chief Engineer of the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture addressed a controversial issue: water allocation for agricultural, wetland, and urban users in Central Kansas. The specific study area includes Cheyenne Bottoms Wetland, a preserve with important habitat conditions for many migratory bird species. This region is economically dependent on irrigated agriculture. Groundwater withdrawal for irrigation had caused the water table to decline and left the wetland with no consistent water source. The Chief Engineer required many farmers to reduce their irrigation water use. An evaluation of this …

Northern Great Plains Manufacturers: Assistance Needs And Potential Economic Contributions, F. Larry Leistritz

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The past decade has been a period of turmoil for the manufacturing sector in both the US. and Canada, and rural manufacturing firms in both countries have been subjected to substantial competitive pressures. The purpose of this study was to identify the firms that comprise the manufacturing sector in North Dakota and in the Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and to identify their needs in order to increase economic activity in the region. Data came from a survey of 333 firms conducted in 1991. Overall, the findings indicate that the firms comprising the manufacturing sector in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are …

Changing Employment Patterns On The Northern And Central Great Plains, Richard E. Lonsdale, J. Clark Archer

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The Great Plains are sometimes characterized as an economically lagging region. To shed some light on the region’s prospects, the locational and structural changes in employment patterns in the northern and central Great Plains were examined for the 1980 to 1990 period. County-level data were drawn from CD-ROM census publications and matched with locational references using Atlas *GIS . Shift-share computations were undertaken for the region as a whole and for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. Employment declined sharply in agriculture and construction, but increased in the service sectors. Compared with the nation as a whole, the region competed poorly in …