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Postmodern Violent Conditions In Loher's Innocence, Peter Yang Oct 2020

Postmodern Violent Conditions In Loher's Innocence, Peter Yang

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Despite its theatrical success, Dea Loher's Innocence faces a heated debate among German theatre and literary critics. Some regard it as a neorealist drama that has reached the highest level of the theatre, but others denounce it as a diffuse, kitschy portrayal of violence. The goal of this paper is to explore themes of the play to negotiate—against the claims of its existing theatre and literary criticism—more accurate critical guidelines of evaluating this theatrical work. The results of this study are expected to contribute to a better understanding of postmodernism and postdramatic theatre in general and of this postdramatic writing …

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The Limits Of Medical X-Pertise: Gender Markers In A Pandemic, Heron Greenesmith, Andy Izenson Oct 2020

The Limits Of Medical X-Pertise: Gender Markers In A Pandemic, Heron Greenesmith, Andy Izenson

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The world changed drastically in 2020. The pandemic has far reaching consequences, and so too do the current civil rights movements and the struggle for gender justice and liberation. This Article seeks to describe a moment in time, a moment of doubt of how one 's gender and race will predict one 's ability to survive the pandemic-not simply COVID-19, but the pandemic writ-large and all the wrenches it has thrown into the health-care machine. How do those of us standing at the edge of a gender revolution navigate these waters? Will our health be the price we pay for …

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Desnatada: Latina Illumination Of Breastfeeding, Race, And Injustice, Jasmine Gonzales Rose Oct 2020

Desnatada: Latina Illumination Of Breastfeeding, Race, And Injustice, Jasmine Gonzales Rose

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In Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Andrea Freeman brilliantly explains how racism results in lower breastfeeding rates by Black mothers,1 which in turn results in poorer health outcomes--including higher mortality rates--for Black babies.2 She provides four primary reasons for this phenomenon: (1) the history and legacy of slavery, (2) the imposition of racist gender stereotypes on Black women, (3) racially-targeted formula promotion by manufacturers and hospitals, and (4) government benefits and employment policies that obstruct poor people's ability to breastfeed. The first two of these reasons are particularly devastating: the legacy of slavery and misogynoiristic3 stereotypes …

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Keeping The Patient At The Center Of Machine Learning In Healthcare, Jessica Findley, Andrew Woods, Christopher Robertson, Marvin J. Slepian Oct 2020

Keeping The Patient At The Center Of Machine Learning In Healthcare, Jessica Findley, Andrew Woods, Christopher Robertson, Marvin J. Slepian

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Char et al. (2020) aspire to provide "a systematic approach to identifying ... ethical concerns" around machine learning healthcare applications (ML-HCAs), which includes artificial intelligence and big data. Their approach, styled around the development "pipeline" for new technologies, has valuable insights, but we think it over-emphasizes technical design questions and under-emphasizes core ethical questions. There is little ethical debate about whether to maximize accuracy, evaluation, and oversight, at reasonable cost. Of course those goals should be pursued, but these are design challenges about feasibility more than ethical concerns.

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Setting The Standard: Multidisciplinary Hallmarks For Structural, Equitable And Tracked Antibiotic Policy, Claas Kirchhelle, Paul Atkinson, Alex Broom, Komatra Chuengsatiansup, Jorge Pinto Ferreira, Nicolas Fortané, Isabel Frost, Christoph Gradmann, Stephen Hinchliffe, Steven J. Hoffman, Javier Lezaun, Susan Nayiga, Scott H. Podolsky, Kevin Outterson, Stephanie Raymond, Adam P. Roberts, Andrew C. Singer, Anthony D. So, Luechai Sringernyuang, Elizabeth Tayler, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Clare I. R. Chandler Sep 2020

Setting The Standard: Multidisciplinary Hallmarks For Structural, Equitable And Tracked Antibiotic Policy, Claas Kirchhelle, Paul Atkinson, Alex Broom, Komatra Chuengsatiansup, Jorge Pinto Ferreira, Nicolas Fortané, Isabel Frost, Christoph Gradmann, Stephen Hinchliffe, Steven J. Hoffman, Javier Lezaun, Susan Nayiga, Scott H. Podolsky, Kevin Outterson, Stephanie Raymond, Adam P. Roberts, Andrew C. Singer, Anthony D. So, Luechai Sringernyuang, Elizabeth Tayler, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Clare I. R. Chandler

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There is increasing concern globally about the enormity of the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human, animal, plant and environmental health. A proliferation of international, national and institutional reports on the problems posed by AMR and the need for antibiotic stewardship have galvanised attention on the global stage. However, the AMR community increasingly laments a lack of action, often identified as an ‘implementation gap’. At a policy level, the design of internationally salient solutions that are able to address AMR’s interconnected biological and social (historical, political, economic and cultural) dimensions is not straightforward. This multidisciplinary paper responds by …

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Thionated Organic Compounds As Emerging Heavy-Atom-Free Photodynamic Therapy Agents, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández Sep 2020

Thionated Organic Compounds As Emerging Heavy-Atom-Free Photodynamic Therapy Agents, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández

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This minireview focuses on recent progress in developing heavy-atom-free photosensitizers based on the thionation of nucleic acid derivatives and other biocompatible organic compounds for prospective applications in photodynamic therapy. Particular attention is given to the use of thionated nucleobase derivatives as "one-two punch"photodynamic agents. These versatile photosensitizers can act as "Trojan horses"upon metabolization into DNA and exposure to activating light. Their incorporation into cellular DNA increases their selectivity and photodynamic efficacy against highly proliferating skin cancer tumor cells, while simultaneously enabling the use of low irradiation doses both in the presence and in the absence of molecular oxygen. Also reviewed …

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Cultural Adaptation And Content Validity Of A Chinese Translation Of The 'Person-Centered Primary Care Measure': Findings From Cognitive Debriefing, Stephen J. Zyzanski, Kurt C. Stange Sep 2020

Cultural Adaptation And Content Validity Of A Chinese Translation Of The 'Person-Centered Primary Care Measure': Findings From Cognitive Debriefing, Stephen J. Zyzanski, Kurt C. Stange

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Objectives To develop an equivalent Chinese translation of the Person-Centered Primary Care Measure (PCPCM) and to establish its cultural adaptability and content validity through cognitive debriefing. Design The original English PCPCM was first translated into Chinese by double forward-translation by professional translators. The reconciliated Chinese version was then doubly back-translated into English by two other professional translators blinded to the forward-translation. On affirmation on its linguistic equivalence with the developers of the original English PCPCM, the reconciliated Chinese PCPCM was sent for cognitive debriefing with 20 Chinese-speaking primary care subjects by a trained interviewer using structured probing questions to collect …

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Assessment Of Mixed-Reality Technology Use In Remote Online Anatomy Education, Susanne Wish-Baratz, Andrew R. Crofton, Jorge Gutierrez, Erin Henninger, Mark A. Griswold Sep 2020

Assessment Of Mixed-Reality Technology Use In Remote Online Anatomy Education, Susanne Wish-Baratz, Andrew R. Crofton, Jorge Gutierrez, Erin Henninger, Mark A. Griswold

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Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented challenges for education worldwide, especially in medical schools that rely on cadaver-based dissection for anatomy. The advent of commercial mixed-reality (MR) technology, such as the HoloLens (Microsoft Corporation), offers new possibilities for anatomy education.1 At Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), the state of Ohio’s shelter in place order meant that students did not return from spring break in 2020, requiring an urgent modification to the anatomy curriculum, which has featured MR technology since 2018.2 We report our initial experience using MR to teach anatomy remotely to students located throughout North America. …

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Conceptualizing The Effects Of Continuous Traumatic Violence On Hiv Continuum Of Care Outcomes For Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men In The United States, Dexter R. Voisin Sep 2020

Conceptualizing The Effects Of Continuous Traumatic Violence On Hiv Continuum Of Care Outcomes For Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men In The United States, Dexter R. Voisin

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The United States (US) is on track to achieve the 90-90-90 targets set forth by UNAIDS and the National HIV/AIDS strategy, yet significant racial disparities in HIV care outcomes remain, particularly for young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). Research has demonstrated that various types of violence are key aspects of syndemics that contribute to disparities in HIV risk. However, little research has looked collectively at cumulative violent experiences and how those might affect HIV treatment and care outcomes. Drawing on extant literature and theoretical underpinnings of syndemics, we provide a conceptual model that highlights how continuous traumatic …

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Kob Interviews Joshua Kastenberg About Constitutional Rights During Covid-19, Joshua Kastenberg, Brittany Costello Sep 2020

Kob Interviews Joshua Kastenberg About Constitutional Rights During Covid-19, Joshua Kastenberg, Brittany Costello

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Covid-19 Risk And Outcomes In Patients With Substance Use Disorders, Quangqiu Wang, David C. Kaelber, Rong Xu Sep 2020

Covid-19 Risk And Outcomes In Patients With Substance Use Disorders, Quangqiu Wang, David C. Kaelber, Rong Xu

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The global pandemic of COVID-19 is colliding with the epidemic of opioid use disorders (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD) in the United States (US). Currently, there is limited data on risks, disparity, and outcomes for COVID-19 in individuals suffering from SUD. This is a retrospective case-control study of electronic health records (EHRs) data of 73,099,850 unique patients, of whom 12,030 had a diagnosis of COVID-19. Patients with a recent diagnosis of SUD (within past year) were at significantly increased risk for COVID-19 (adjusted odds ratio or AOR=8.699 [8.411–8.997], P<10−30), an effect that was strongest for individuals with OUD (AOR=10.244 [9.107–11.524], P<10−30), followed by individuals with tobacco use disorder (TUD) (AOR=8.222 ([7.925–8.530], P<10−30). Compared to patients without SUD, patients with SUD had significantly higher prevalence of chronic kidney, liver, lung diseases, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obesity and cancer. Among patients with recent diagnosis of SUD, African Americans had significantly higher risk of COVID-19 than Caucasians (AOR=2.173 [2.01–2.349], P<10−30), with strongest effect for OUD (AOR=4.162 [3.13–5.533], P<10−25). COVID-19 patients with SUD had significantly worse outcomes (death: 9.6%, hospitalization: 41.0%) than general COVID-19 patients (death: 6.6%, hospitalization: 30.1%) and African Americans with COVID-19 and SUD had worse outcomes (death: 13.0%, hospitalization: 50.7%) than Caucasians (death: 8.6%, hospitalization: 35.2%). These findings identify individuals with SUD, especially individuals with OUD and African Americans, as having increased risk for COVID-19 and its adverse outcomes, highlighting the need to screen and treat individuals with SUD as part of the strategy to control the pandemic while ensuring no disparities in access to healthcare support.

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The Affordable Care Act: Up For A Final Vote?, Wendy K. Mariner Sep 2020

The Affordable Care Act: Up For A Final Vote?, Wendy K. Mariner

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For more than a decade, the minimum essential coverage requirement, commonly known as the individual mandate, has been a key point of controversy over the ACA, symbolizing ideological and political disagreements over government assistance to low-income populations, federal regulation of private industry, and the legacy of President Obama. 26 U.S.C. §5000A(a) requires everyone (with exceptions) to be covered by a private or public health benefit program meeting ACA standards. 26 U.S.C. §5000A(b) requires those who are not so covered to pay a fee (“shared responsibility payment”) to the Treasury. 26 U.S.C. §5000A(c) sets forth the amount of that fee.

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Can Lessons From The Covid-19 Pandemic Help Define A Strategy For Global Pediatric Radiology Education?, Jennifer Lynn Nicholas Sep 2020

Can Lessons From The Covid-19 Pandemic Help Define A Strategy For Global Pediatric Radiology Education?, Jennifer Lynn Nicholas

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Quantifying The Decrease In Emergency Department Imaging Utilization During The Covid-19 Pandemic At A Multicenter Healthcare System In Ohio, Keval D. Parikh, Nikhil H. Ramaiya, Elias G. Kikano, Sree Harsha Tirumani, Jonathan Pierce, Carl Butcher, Jeffrey L. Sunshine, Donna M. Plecha Sep 2020

Quantifying The Decrease In Emergency Department Imaging Utilization During The Covid-19 Pandemic At A Multicenter Healthcare System In Ohio, Keval D. Parikh, Nikhil H. Ramaiya, Elias G. Kikano, Sree Harsha Tirumani, Jonathan Pierce, Carl Butcher, Jeffrey L. Sunshine, Donna M. Plecha

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PURPOSE: To illustrate the change in emergency department (ED) imaging utilization at a multicenter health system in the state of Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A retrospective observational study was conducted assessing ED imaging volumes between March 1, 2020, and May 11, 2020, during the COVID-19 crisis. A rolling 7-day total value was used for volume tracking and comparison. Total imaging utilization in the ED was compared with new COVID-19 cases in our region. Utilization was first categorized by modality and then by plain films and computed tomography (CT) scans grouped by body part. CT imaging of the chest …

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Investigating The Association Between Motor Function, Neuroinflammation, And Recording Metrics In The Performance Of Intracortical Microelectrode Implanted In Motor Cortex, Youjun Li, Monika Goss-Varley, Youjoung Kim, Seth M. Meade, Keying Chen, Jacob M. Rayyan, He Feng, Keith R. Dona, Justin A, Mcmahon, Dawn M. Taylor, Jeffrey R. Capadona Sep 2020

Investigating The Association Between Motor Function, Neuroinflammation, And Recording Metrics In The Performance Of Intracortical Microelectrode Implanted In Motor Cortex, Youjun Li, Monika Goss-Varley, Youjoung Kim, Seth M. Meade, Keying Chen, Jacob M. Rayyan, He Feng, Keith R. Dona, Justin A, Mcmahon, Dawn M. Taylor, Jeffrey R. Capadona

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Long-term reliability of intracortical microelectrodes remains a challenge for increased acceptance and deployment. There are conflicting reports comparing measurements associated with recording quality with postmortem histology, in attempts to better understand failure of intracortical microelectrodes (IMEs). Our group has recently introduced the assessment of motor behavior tasks as another metric to evaluate the effects of IME implantation. We hypothesized that adding the third dimension to our analysis, functional behavior testing, could provide substantial insight on the health of the tissue, success of surgery/implantation, and the long-term performance of the implanted device. Here we present our novel analysis scheme including: (1) …

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Introduction: Health And Human Rights, George J. Annas Sep 2020

Introduction: Health And Human Rights, George J. Annas

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The American health care industry is killing us, and the casualties are mounting daily. Instead of saving lives, it is more often taking them, and not only by failing to seriously confront the coronavirus pandemic and racism in the industry, but also by the way health care is financed.

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Privacy In Pandemic: Law, Technology, And Public Health In The Covid-19 Crisis, Tiffany Li Sep 2020

Privacy In Pandemic: Law, Technology, And Public Health In The Covid-19 Crisis, Tiffany Li

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of deaths and disastrous consequences around the world, with lasting repercussions for every field of law, including privacy and technology. The unique characteristics of this pandemic have precipitated an increase in use of new technologies, including remote communications platforms, healthcare robots, and medical AI. Public and private actors are using new technologies, like heat sensing, and technologically-influenced programs, like contact tracing, alike in response, leading to a rise in government and corporate surveillance in sectors like healthcare, employment, education, and commerce. Advocates have raised the alarm for privacy and civil liberties violations, but the …

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How Law Libraries Can Help Tell The Black Lives Matter Movement’S Story, Phebe E. Huderson-Poydras, Ronald E. Wheeler Sep 2020

How Law Libraries Can Help Tell The Black Lives Matter Movement’S Story, Phebe E. Huderson-Poydras, Ronald E. Wheeler

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In Voices Across the Spectrum, our goal is to explore issues, perspectives, and resources that focus on promoting diversity, equality, anti-racism, LGBTQ rights, multicultural outreach and recruitment into the profession, inclusive workplaces, and more. While the first installments of this new column will focus on systemic racism issues, each column will examine different diversity and inclusion issues to help prompt conversations and break down silos within the profession.

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Medicaid's Vital Role In Addressing Health And Economic Emergencies, Nicole Huberfeld, Sidney Watson Aug 2020

Medicaid's Vital Role In Addressing Health And Economic Emergencies, Nicole Huberfeld, Sidney Watson

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Medicaid plays an essential role in helping states respond to crises. Medicaid guarantees federal matching funds to states, which helps with unanticipated costs associated with public health emergencies, like COVID-19, and increases in enrollment that inevitably occur during times of economic downturn. Medicaid’s joint federal/state structure, called cooperative federalism, gives states significant flexibility within federal rules that allows states to streamline eligibility and expand benefits, which is especially important during emergencies. Federal emergency declarations give the secretary of Health and Human Services temporary authority to exercise regulatory flexibility to ensure that sufficient health care is available to meet the needs …

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G-Csf And Gm-Csf Are Different. Which One Is Better For Covid-19?, Hillard M. Lazarus Aug 2020

G-Csf And Gm-Csf Are Different. Which One Is Better For Covid-19?, Hillard M. Lazarus

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Red Blood Cell Adhesion To Icam-1 Is Mediated By Fibrinogen And Is Associated With Right-To-Left Shunts In Sickle Cell Disease, Erdem Kucukal, Yuncheng Man, Erina Quinn, Neil Tewari, Ran An, Jane A. Little, Umut A. Gurkan Aug 2020

Red Blood Cell Adhesion To Icam-1 Is Mediated By Fibrinogen And Is Associated With Right-To-Left Shunts In Sickle Cell Disease, Erdem Kucukal, Yuncheng Man, Erina Quinn, Neil Tewari, Ran An, Jane A. Little, Umut A. Gurkan

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Sickle cell disease (SCD), which afflicts 100 000 Americans, as well as millions worldwide, is associated with anemia, lifelong morbidity, and early mortality. Abnormal adhesion of sickle red blood cells (RBCs) to activated vascular endothelium may contribute acutely to the initiation of painful vaso-occlusive crises and chronically to endothelial damage in SCD. Sickle RBCs adhere to activated endothelium through several adhesion mechanisms. In this study, using whole blood from 17 people with heterozygous SCD (HbS variant) and 55 people with homozygous SCD (HbSS) analyzed in an in vitro microfluidic assay, we present evidence for the adhesion of sickle RBCs to …

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Adverse Events Reported To The United States Food And Drug Administration Related To Caffeine-Containing Products, Andrew R. Jagim, Patrick S. Harty, Karen M. Fischer, Chad M. Kerksick, Jacob L. Erickson Aug 2020

Adverse Events Reported To The United States Food And Drug Administration Related To Caffeine-Containing Products, Andrew R. Jagim, Patrick S. Harty, Karen M. Fischer, Chad M. Kerksick, Jacob L. Erickson

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To examine differences in the frequency and severity of federally reported adverse events between caffeine-containing and non–caffeine-containing products while also identifying the category of caffeine-containing products associated with the highest frequency and severity of adverse events.

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Legal Education As Hegemonic Masculinity, Dara Purvis Aug 2020

Legal Education As Hegemonic Masculinity, Dara Purvis

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Understanding Post Adoption And Guardianship Instability For Children And Youth Who Exit Foster Care: Study Design Options, Nancy Rolock Aug 2020

Understanding Post Adoption And Guardianship Instability For Children And Youth Who Exit Foster Care: Study Design Options, Nancy Rolock

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For children living in foster care, adoption and guardianship are important permanency outcomes when reunification with their biological family is not advisable. Most children living in adoptive or guardianship families do not reenter state custody after adoption or guardianship finalization. But five to 20% of children may experience post adoption and guardianship instability. “Post adoption and guardianship instability” refers to situations in which children who exit foster care to adoptive and guardianship homes no longer reside with their adoptive parent or legal guardian. Instability may be formal (when a child reenters foster care) or informal (when a child lives temporarily …

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When Does A Minor’S Legal Competence To Make Health Care Decisions Matter?, Lois A. Weithorn Aug 2020

When Does A Minor’S Legal Competence To Make Health Care Decisions Matter?, Lois A. Weithorn

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In this article, I examine the role of minors’ competence for medical decision-making in abstract modern American law. The doctrine of parental consent remains the default legal and bioethical framework for health care decisions on behalf of children, complemented by a complex array of exceptions. Some of those exceptions vest decisional authority in the minors themselves. Yet, in American law, judgments of minors’ competence do not typically trigger shifts in decision-making authority from adults to minors. Rather, minors’ decisional capacity becomes relevant only after legislatures or courts determine that the default of parental discretion does not achieve important policy goals …

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Industry Concentration And Information Technology, James Bessen Aug 2020

Industry Concentration And Information Technology, James Bessen

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Industry concentration has been rising in the US since 1980. Firm operating margins have also been rising. Are these signs of declining competition that call for a new antitrust policy? This paper explores the role of proprietary information technology systems (IT), which could increase industry concentration and margins by raising the productivity of top firms relative to others. Using instrumental variable estimates, this paper finds that IT system use is strongly associated with the level and growth of industry concentration and firm operating margins. The paper also finds that IT system use is associated with relatively larger establishment size and …

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Have The Aca’S Exchanges Succeeded? It’S Complicated, David K. Jones, Sarah H. Gordon, Nicole Huberfeld Aug 2020

Have The Aca’S Exchanges Succeeded? It’S Complicated, David K. Jones, Sarah H. Gordon, Nicole Huberfeld

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The fight over health insurance exchanges epitomizes the rapid evolution of health reform politics in the decade since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The ACA's drafters did not expect the exchanges to be contentious; they would expand private insurance coverage to low- and middle-income individuals who were increasingly unable to obtain employer-sponsored health insurance. Yet, exchanges became one of the primary fronts in the war over Obamacare. Have the exchanges been successful? The answer is not straightforward and requires a historical perspective through a federalism lens. What the ACA has accomplished has depended largely on whether states were …

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Comparison Of Abbott Id Now, Diasorin Simplexa, And Cdc Fda Emergency Use Authorization Methods For The Detection Of Sars-Cov-2 From Nasopharyngeal And Nasal Swabs From Individuals Diagnosed With Covid-19, Daniel D. Rhoads, Sree S. Cherian, Lisa M. Stempak, Christine L. Schmotzer, Navid Sadri Jul 2020

Comparison Of Abbott Id Now, Diasorin Simplexa, And Cdc Fda Emergency Use Authorization Methods For The Detection Of Sars-Cov-2 From Nasopharyngeal And Nasal Swabs From Individuals Diagnosed With Covid-19, Daniel D. Rhoads, Sree S. Cherian, Lisa M. Stempak, Christine L. Schmotzer, Navid Sadri

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Border Babies — Medical Ethics And Human Rights In Immigrant Detention Centers, Sondra S. Crosby, George J. Annas Jul 2020

Border Babies — Medical Ethics And Human Rights In Immigrant Detention Centers, Sondra S. Crosby, George J. Annas

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Providing decent medical care for families in U.S. detention centers near the Mexican border has become exceedingly difficult over the past 2 years. Trauma was inflicted on migrants to deter others from attempting to enter the United States. A cornerstone of deterrence was the “zero tolerance” policy that forcibly separated children from their parents at the border. Photographs of children confined in cages horrified Americans, who demanded that the policy be rescinded. It was, but family separations continue and have been made even worse by the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) — which the U.S. Supreme Court will most likely review …

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Postglacial Recolonization Of North America By Spadefoot Toads: Integrating Niche And Corridor Modeling To Study Species’ Range Dynamics Over Geologic Time, Iulian Gherghel, Ryan Andrew Martin Jul 2020

Postglacial Recolonization Of North America By Spadefoot Toads: Integrating Niche And Corridor Modeling To Study Species’ Range Dynamics Over Geologic Time, Iulian Gherghel, Ryan Andrew Martin

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Understanding the factors that shape species’ distributions is a key topic in biogeography. As climates change, species can either cope with these changes through evolution, plasticity or by shifting their ranges to track the optimal climatic conditions. Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is a widespread technique in biogeography that estimates the niche of the organism by using occurrences and environmental data to estimate species’ potential distributions. ENMs are often criticized for failing to take species’ dispersal abilities into consideration. Here, we attempt to fill this gap by combining ENMs with dispersal and corridor modeling to study the range dynamics of North …

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