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A New State Plan Option To Integrate Care And Financing For Persons Dually Eligible For Medicare And Medicaid, Jane H. Thorpe, Katherine J. Hayes

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

As health care costs continue to escalate, Congress, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state Medicaid agencies, researchers, and policymakers are focusing on identifying new approaches to care delivery and reimbursement for individuals who are dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Although relatively few in number (9 million), dual eligible beneficiaries are more likely than others to experience poor health, including multiple chronic conditions, functional and cognitive impairments, and a need for continuous care. Sixty-six percent of dual eligibles have three or more chronic conditions; sixty-one percent are …

Acrl New England Scholarly Communication Special Interest Group Workshop: Open Access And Scholarly Societies: A Panel Discussion About The Opportunities And Challenges, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Publications

This report covers a workshop held by the Scholarly Communications Interest Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC), an independent chapter of ACRL. The workshop, titled "Open Access and Scholarly Societies: A Panel Discussion About the Opportunities and Challenges," took place on November 18, 2011, at the Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Commonwealth Times 2011-12-08

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

The Pacifican December 8, 2011, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Brief Of The Intellectual Property Amicus Brief Clinic Of The University Of New Hampshire School Of Law As Amicus Curiae In Support Of Neither Party, Susan M. Richey, John M. Greabe, Keith M. Harrison, J. Jeffrey Hawley

Law Faculty Scholarship

Amicus brief filed by the Intellectual Property Amicus Brief Clinic of the University of New Hampshire School of Law with the United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit regarding United States v. Xavier Alvarez, Docket No. 11-210

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, December 8, 2011, Marshall University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Relationship Between Planning And Training, And Response To Campus Safety Incidents, Kimberly Michele Harvey

Dissertations

Over the past 50 years, campus violence has significantly impacted our institutions of higher education. As a result, campus safety has become an increasingly important topic for all colleges and universities. The Virginia Tech tragedy in 2007 highlighted the necessity of emergency management planning and training as well as employee understanding of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Emergency management plans for 27 institutions in Missouri were collected and evaluated to determine how they instructed employees to respond to various campus safety scenarios and how training factored into the campus plans. Two-hundred, fifty-one employees were then surveyed to …

December 8, 2011, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Cal Poly Study Aims To Curb Pregnancy Weight Gain And Danger In Obese Mothers-To-Be, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

The Testing Of A Tennis-Specific Fitness Program, Kara Johnson

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for BSU Honors Program.

The Carroll News- Vol. 88, No. 10, John Carroll University

The Carroll News

No abstract provided.

Anthony Brown V. Wenerowicz

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

A New Mass Spectrometer For Upper Atmospheric Measurements In The Auroral Region, Addison E. Everett, James S. Dyer, Mike Watson, Wayne Sanderson, Scott Schicker, Dalon Work, Christopher J. Mertens, Scott M. Bailey, Erik A. Syrstad

Graduate Student Posters

We have previously presented a new rocket-borne time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) for measurements in the mesosphere / lower thermosphere (MLT). Traditionally, mass spectrometry in the MLT has been difficult, mainly due to the elevated ambient pressures of the MLT and high speeds of a sounding rocket flight, which affect the direct sampling of the ambient atmosphere and spatial resolution. The TOF-MS is a versatile, inherently adaptable, axial-sampling instrument, capable of operating in a traditional TOF mode or in a multiplexing Hadamard-transform mode where high spatial resolution is desired. To minimize bow shock effects at low altitudes (~70-110km), the ram surface …

Holy Cross Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 1, Winter 2012, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Magazine

Syllabus: Multicultural Education
with Associate Professor Ericka J. Fisher ’96
By Pam Reponen

A Portrait of a Presidency
Together with Fr. McFarland, the Holy Cross community reflects on and celebrates 12 years of change, growth and sustained commitment to mission
By HCM, Ruth Ann Elias ’76, Timothy R. Austin and Fr. McFarland
Photography by Patrick O’Connor

Fr. Editor-in-Chief
Noted religious history author, editor and Holy Cross professor, Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., takes on an impressive new challenge.
By Rebecca Smith ’99

Living, Learning, Laughing
The residence life experience at Holy Cross integrates opportunities to grow in academics, faith, spirituality and, …

Otter Realm, December 8, 2011, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Getting to Zero: Thirty Years and Still Fighting -- What You Otter Be Doing! November 8 - December 18 -- Alive and Growing -- An Update On The Ord -- OCCUPY EVERYTHING-CURRENTLY OCCUPYING A TOWN NEAR YOU -- Ocupar Aqui y Alla -- Town Hall Meeting: Otter Style -- Dropping the Debt: Education on a Dime -- Hope for the Homeless: "Voices of the Street" Speaks Up and Helps Out -- Obstruction and Construction at CSUMB: Out With the Old, and In With the New -- Too Little, Too Late? CSUMB Students and Faculty Question the Placement of Fall Break …

Wendell Hess, Wendell Wayne Hess, Meg Miner

All oral histories

Wendell Hess became a professor in the Chemistry Department at IWU in 1963 and also served as Provost and acting President before retiring in 1989. Remarks on his continuing service to his discipline and to the Bloomington-Normal community are also shared in this interview.

Daily Eastern News: December 08, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

The Diamond, December 8, 2011, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Rick Santorum's Visit Makes ABC and CNN News; Rumors of Off-Campus Housing Cleared Up
• News: What's New with PLIA?; Outside Beverages Now Banned at Sporting Events; Three Dordt Students Receive Highest FFA Award; Don't Forget the Reason for the Season
• Features: Political Poll: Who Would YOU Vote For?
• Opinion: Small Beginnings; Turning Thoughts into "Things"; Seniortitis
• Sports: Harmy's Army; Football Good for Dordt? Yes!; Ask an Athlete
• Arts and Entertainment: Prairie Grass Film Challenge and Snow Sculpting Contest; Chorale Caroling for Christmas
• Amusements: What If... ; Feature Photo; Ask a Musician

Embedment Of Hydroxyapatite (Ha) On Titanium Alloy (Ti6ai4v) Via Superplastic Deformation Method For Medical Application / Hidayah Mohd Khalid, Mohd Khalid Hidayah

Student Works (2010-2019)

Nowadays, many researchers focus on the development of new biomaterials, which combine the osteoconductive characteristics of bioactive ceramics with sufficient strength and toughness for medical implant applications. Therefore, new coating methods have attracted great interests in recent years for replacing the high temperature techniques like plasma spraying. In this research, embedment of HA-2 wt.% Ti composite powder on superplastic and as-received Ti-6Al-4V is conducted through continuous pressing technique to improve the low strength of the conventional pure HA coatings. The embedment process is carried out at temperature below the allographic temperature in Argon gas atmosphere. The characteristics and bonding strength …

Pepperbox - December 8, 2011, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School

The Pepperbox

Volume 84, Number 2

The Comment, December 8, 2011, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Attached And Free-Living Bacteria In Biodegradation In Karst Aquifers, Roger Painter, Tom Byl, Lonnie Sharpe, Ahmad Kheder, Justin Harris

Civil and Architectural Engineering Faculty Research

Natural attenuation of groundwater contamination occurs at some level for all aquifers impacted with organic contaminants. The issues regarding natural attenuation are whether it takes place at a sufficient rate to be protective of human health and the environment. Implementation of a Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) remedial alternative for groundwater requires parties responsible for the contamination to demonstrate to regulators and the public that MNA is protective at a given site. Analysis of MNA for remediation of karst aquifers is hampered by a lack of understanding of biodegradation in karst environments. The lack of studies examining biodegradation in karst aquifers …

Everything That Rises Must Converge: A Chinese-English Contrastive Rhetoric Case Study, Shuwen Li

Theses and Dissertations

The traditional definition of contrastive rhetoric (CR) emphasizes prescribing and teaching differences in rhetorical patterns. This paper raises questions about traditional CR and analyzes recent developments, which move from differences to similarities in rhetorical patterns, within the context of increasing globalization. Through surveying Chinese-English CR, China's New Culture Movement, and China's New Concept Writing Competition, this paper proposes seven hypotheses with an emphasis on exploring the commonly accepted themes and the possibility of reaching convergence in cross-cultural communication. Using Burke's definition of rhetoric as the theoretical framework, this paper conducts a case study on Chinese and English movie reviews. Tagmemic …

A Comparative Study Of Parental Involvement And Its Effect On African-American Male And Overall Student Achievement At Single Gender And Coeducational Middle Schools, Michael Wayne Nellums

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if Parental Involvement influenced academic performance at single gender and co-educational schools. This study also compared African American male academic achievement with all students enrolled in two single gender, and one coeducational, middle school programs. Although all three schools reflected a high poverty student population, the coeducational school boasted a district funded talented and gifted program that has been in existence for almost two decades. The single gender school had no such offering. The coeducational school also had a more experienced teaching staff, with more teachers holding advanced degrees. The study examined …

Ferromagnetic Zno Nanocrystals And Al-Induced Defects, Chinmay Phadnis, Darshana Y. Inamdar, Igor Dubenko, Arjun K. Pathak, Naushad Ali, Shailaja Mahamuni

Publications

ZnO nanocrystals (NCs) capped with polyvinyl pyrrolidone reveal room temperature ferromagnetism. Incorporation of Al³⁺-ions induce defects in ZnO NCs leading to quenching of excitonic luminescence of ZnO at the cost of an increase in the intensity of oxygen vacancy related emission. Photoluminescence excitation spectra exhibit an additional hump like feature attributed to Al-doping. Saturation magnetization of Al³⁺-doped ZnO NCs is the same as that of the undoped ZnO NCs. However, a remarkable decrease in the coercivity associated with change in the nature of M (T) curve and electron paramagnetic resonance signal with g = 1.96 is …

The Weekly Challenger, December 8, 2011, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 8, 2011, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Missouri Miner,December 8 , 2011

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily December 8, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 137, Issue 53

The Montclarion, December 08, 2011, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Developing Occupational Programs: A Case Study Of Four Arkansas Community Colleges, Duane Edward Doyle

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines how differences in the environmental conditions and organizational factors facing each community college contribute to the development of occupational and technical education programs. This study was driven by one primary research question: What environmental conditions and organizational factors influence the nature of the strategic response in the form of technical education program development within community colleges? To answer this question, a qualitative study of four community colleges in the state of Arkansas was conducted. The organizations studied were: University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, Pulaski Technical College, National Park Community College, and Mid South Community College. …