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Managing Medical Bills On The Brink Of Bankruptcy, Melissa B. Jacoby, Mirya Holman

Melissa B. Jacoby

This paper presents original empirical evidence on financial interactions between medical providers and their patients who go bankrupt. We use a nationally representative sample of people who filed for bankruptcy in 2007 to compare two popular but hotly contested methods of measuring medical burden. By applying both methods to the same filers, we find that nearly four out of five respondents had some financial obligation for medical care not covered by insurance in the two years prior to filing as measured by the survey method. The court record method paints a different picture, with only half of the cases containing …

Revisiting Richard Mckeon’S Architectonic Rhetoric: A Response To ‘The Uses Of "Rhetoric In A Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts’, David J. Depew

David J Depew

No abstract provided.

Person-Organization Incongruence As A Predictor Of Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, And Heterosexism, Kristie L. Seelman, N. E. Walls

Kristie L Seelman

Using a sample of 124 incoming social work graduate students, we examined whether levels of perceived incongruence with social work values and the perceived culture of a graduate social work program significantly correlate with social psychological constructs. The social psychological constructs are associated with maintenance and support for social stratification in general and with prejudicial attitudes based on sexual orientation more specifically. Results suggest that higher levels of cultural incongruence are associated with significantly higher levels of right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, hostile heterosexism, aversive heterosexism, and paternalistic heterosexism. Nonsignificant results emerged for amnestic heterosexism and positive stereotypic heterosexism. Implications …

A Nativity Song (How Far Is It To Bethlehem?) - Women's Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An original Christmas carol arranged for women's choir (SSAA) and piano with words by Frances Chesterton.

A Taxonomy Of Small Firm Technology Commercialization, Dirk Libaers, Diana M. Hicks, Alan Porter

Dirk Libaers

This paper proposes a taxonomy of business models used by small, highly innovative firms focused on technology commercialization that disproportionately contribute to technological change in the US economy. The firms operate across industries and use a variety of technology platforms. Exploratory factor analysis of keyword occurrence on firm websites generated a taxonomy comprising: research organization; development stage biosciences; highly specialized component supplier; specialized subcontractor; product solutions providers; and service solutions providers.

When The 5 Rights Go Wrong: Medication Errors From The Nursing Perspective, Jackie H. Jones, Linda A. Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

Review Of Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants And Their Sex Lives By Gloria González-López, Richard Mora

Richard Mora

[...] for one-third of the women, rape and/or incest were their first sexual experience, a fact that points to the role that dominance plays in the patriarchal gender regimes in which the women lived.

The Electoral Consequences Of Party Loyalty In Congress, Jamie Carson

Gregory Koger

No abstract provided.

"Embracing Humanimality: Deconstructing The Human/Animal Dichotomy", Carrie Packwood Freeman

Carrie P. Freeman

In seeking to rhetorically combat speciesism, how can animal advocates talk about humans and other animals in ways that are posthumanist? In answering this question, I draw upon posthumanist scholarship to critically analyze how these humanist tensions not only affect, but also exist within, animal rights philosophy itself, likely weakening arguments in favor of animal rights. My goal is to improve the logical basis upon which this philosophy informs animal rights advocacy. I begin by analyzing the paradoxes involving animal activists’ deployment of humanist adjectives like "humane" and "ethical," as well as tensions over whether animal rights strategies should promote …

Adaptation And Evaluation Of The Clinical Impairment Assessment To Assess Disordered Eating Related Distress In An Adolescent Female Ethnic Fijian Population, R H. Striegel, A E. Becker, J J. Thomas, A Bainivualiku, L Richards, K Navara, A L. Roberts, S E. Gilman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Objective:

Measurement of disease-related impairment and distress is central to diagnostic, therapeutic, and health policy considerations for eating disorders across diverse populations. This study evaluates psychometric properties of a translated and adapted version of the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA) in an ethnic Fijian population.

Method:

The adapted CIA was administered to ethnic Fijian adolescent schoolgirls (N = 215). We calculated Cronbach's α to assess the internal consistency, examined the association between indicators of eating disorder symptom severity and the CIA to assess construct and criterion validity, and compared the strength of relation between the CIA and measures of disordered eating …

Nocturnal Eating Association With: Binge Eating, Obesity, And Psychological Distress.Pdf, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Dell Hymes And The Ethnography Of Communication, Barbara Johnstone, William Marcellino

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Central Bank Independence In Words And In Deeds: Lessons From Brazil And Chile, Taeko Hiroi, Douglas Block

Taeko Hiroi

Political independence of the central bank is considered to bring financial stability to a nation and therefore to foster economic growth by providing safe investment environments. However, granting a central bank autonomy is politically contentious because of the implications such independence will entail for politicians in terms of their ability to influence monetary policy. This chapter analyzes central bank independence in words and in deeds. The first part discusses the existing literature on central bank independence and problems associated with its measurement. The implications of this debate are analyzed with two Latin American countries, Brazil and Chile. In Brazil, the …

"Cities And Gender. By Helen Jarvis With Paula Kantor And Jonathan Clarke.", Winifred S. Curran

Winifred S Curran

No abstract provided.

What Would Coase Do? (About Parking Regulation), Michael E. Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

American municipalities typically require landowners to provide visitors and guests with ample amounts of parking, in order to prevent externalities such as cruising (drivers wasting gasoline and polluting the air while searching for scarce parking). However, minimum parking requirements may create social harms that outweigh this benefit. By artificially increasing the supply of parking, minimum parking requirements effectively subsidize driving, thus increasing rather than decreasing pollution and congestion.

Politics And The Media: Culture, Technology, And Regulation, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Jonathan Rose

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.

Citizenship Regimes And Identity Strategies Among Young Muslims In Europe, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Media In Electoral Behaviour: A Canadian Perspective, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

Resistance As Recovery: Winning A Sexual Harassment Complaint, Carolyn M. West

Carolyn M. West

The Electoral Consequences Of Party Loyalty In Congress, Jamie Carson, Gregory Koger, Matthew J. Lebo, Everett Young

Gregory Koger

To what extent is party loyalty a liability for incumbent legislators? Past research on legislative voting and elections suggests that voters punish members who are ideologically “out of step” with their districts. In seeking to move beyond the emphasis in the literature on the effects of ideological extremity on legislative vote share, we examine how partisan loyalty can adversely affect legislators' electoral fortunes. Specifically, we estimate the effects of each legislator's party unity—the tendency of a member to vote with his or her party on salient issues that divide the two major parties—on vote margin when running for reelection. Our …

Cooperative Party Factions In American Politics, Gregory Koger, Seth Masket, Hans Noel

Gregory Koger

What are the primary factions within the Democratic and Republican parties, and to what extent do rival factions cooperate? We address these questions using a unique data set of information sharing between party organizations, media outlets, 527s, and interest groups. Using social network methods, we identify two major information-sharing clusters, or expanded party networks; these networks correspond to a liberal/Democratic grouping and a conservative/Republican grouping. We further identify factions within each party network, but we find a high degree of cooperation between party factions. That is, our data suggest that beneath the intraparty disagreements we observe in primary elections and …

Jonathan Sawday, Engines Of The Imagination: Renaissance Culture And The Rise Of The Machine., Steven A. Walton

Steven Walton

No abstract provided.

Global Reuse And Optimal Waste Policy, Thomas C. Kinnaman

Thomas C. Kinnaman

No abstract provided.

“Our Indians In Our America: Anti-Imperialist Imperialism And The Construction Of Brazilian Modernity”, Tracy Devine Guzmán

Tracy Devine Guzmán

Indigenous peoples have been used and imagined as guardians of the Brazilian frontier since at least the mid-nineteenth century. This association was central to the foundation of the Indian Protection Service (Serviço de Proteção aos Índios, or SPI) during the early 1900s and culminated with the Amazonian Vigilance System (Sistema de Vigelância da Amazônia, or SIVAM) at the turn of the millennium. Throughout the period, the abiding desire to establish defensive dominion over disputed national territory subjected individuals and groups identified as "Indians" to the power of overlapping discourses of scientific progress, national security, and economic development. A trinity of …

Il Cestello (Un Ciclo Di Canzoni) - Voce Alta = Song Cycle, High Voice, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

This is the high voice=voce alta version of Il cestello "The Little Basket" a song cycle=un ciclo di canzoni sung in Italian from the poetry=poesia of Angiolo Silvio Novaro.

The Effects Of Alcohol Use On Academic Achievement In High School, Michael T. French, Ana I. Balsa, Laura M. Giuliano

Michael T. French

This paper examines the effects of alcohol use on high school students’ quality of learning. We estimate fixed-effects models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Our primary measure of academic achievement is the student's grade point average (GPA) abstracted from official school transcripts. We find that increases in alcohol consumption result in small yet statistically significant reductions in GPA for male students and in statistically non-significant changes for females. For females, however, higher levels of drinking result in self-reported academic difficulty. The fixed-effects results are substantially smaller than OLS estimates, underscoring the importance of addressing unobserved …

Post-Quake Food Security In Haiti, John Mazzeo

John Mazzeo, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

How Spanish Phonotactics Informs Psycholinguistic Models Of Speech Production, Michael Shelton

Michael Shelton

No abstract provided.

Placing Self: How Might We Place Ourselves Differently In Studying Leadership?, Amanda Sinclair

Amanda Sinclair

No abstract provided.

2010 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn