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Federal Reserve Press Release (March 15, 2020), Federal Reserve System

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Primary Dealer Credit Facility, Karen Yang

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Cboe Options Exchange Temporarily Shifts To Fully Electronic Trading – Sec Enables Immediate Effectiveness Of Proposed Rule Change To Facilitate Continued Operations In Light Of Temporary Suspension Of Cboe Physical Trading Floor, United States: Securities And Exchange Commission (Sec)

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Federal Reserve Accelerates Treasury Purchases To Address Market Strains, Nick Timiraos, Julia-Ambra Verlaine

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The Resolution And Restructuring Of Indymac Bank, Mallory Dreyer

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Muni Bonds Plummet As Few Markets Are Immune From Selloff, Heather Gillers

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/muni-bonds-plummet-as-few-markets-are-immune-from-selloff-11584050052

Statement Regarding Treasury Reserve Management Purchases And Repurchase Operations, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

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Some Muni Bonds Are Left Behind In Rush To Safer Investments, Heather Gillers

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-muni-bonds-are-being-left-behind-in-rush-to-safer-investments-11583701450

Is Perceived Racism A Barrier To Career Advancement In Nursing? Black Nurses' Perspectives, Kechi Iheduru-Anderson

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

A focused ethnographic study of black nurses was conducted using individual semi-structured interviews to examine their perception about racism in nursing and its effect on their career advancement. Findings is of great significance to nursing, especially nurse leaders at the micro and macro levels of the healthcare system.

Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With James Wigand, Sandra Ward, James R. Wigand

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Suggested Citation Form: Wigand, James, 2020. “Lessons Learned Interview."Interview by Sandra Ward. Yale Program on Financial Stability Lessons Learned Oral History Project. March 4, 2020. Transcript. https://ypfs.som.yale.edu/library/ypfs-lesson-learned-oral-history-project-interview-james-wigand

The Plight Of Women In Positions Of Corporate Leadership In The United States, The European Union, And Japan: Differing Laws And Cultures, Similar Issues, Bettina C. K. Binder, Terry Morehead Dworkin, Niculina Nae, Cindy A. Schipani, Irina Averianova

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Gender diversity in corporate governance is a highly debated issue worldwide. National campaigns such as “2020 Women on Boards” in the United States and “Women on the Board Pledge for Europe” are examples of just two initiatives aimed at increasing female representation in the corporate boardroom. Several

European countries have adopted board quotas as a means toward achieving gender diversity. Japan has passed an Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace to lay a foundation for establishing targets for promoting women.

This Article examines the status of women in positions of leadership in the United States, …

Evaluating Screening Participation, Follow-Up, And Outcomes For Breast, Cervical, And Colorectal Cancer In The Prospr Consortium, William E. Barlow, Elisabeth F. Beaber, Berta M. Geller, Aruna Kamineni, Yingye Zheng, Jennifer S. Haas, Chun R. Chao, Carolyn M. Rutter, Ann G. Zauber, Brian L. Sprague, Ethan A. Halm, Donald L. Weaver, Jessica Chubak, V Paul Doria-Rose, Sarah Kobrin, Tracy Onega, Virginia P. Quinn, Marilyn M. Schapira, Anna N A Tosteson, Douglas A. Corley, Celette Sugg Skinner, Mitchell D. Schnall, Katrina Armstrong, Cosette M. Wheeler, Michael J. Silverberg, Bijal A. Balasubramanian, Chyke A. Doubeni, Dale Mclerran, Jasmin A. Tiro

Pathology Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Cancer screening is a complex process encompassing risk assessment, the initial screening examination, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment of cancer precursors or early cancers. Metrics that enable comparisons across different screening targets are needed. We present population-based screening metrics for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers for nine sites participating in the Population-based Research Optimizing Screening through Personalized Regimens consortium.

METHODS: We describe how selected metrics map to a trans-organ conceptual model of the screening process. For each cancer type, we calculated calendar year 2013 metrics for the screen-eligible target population (breast: ages 40-74 years; cervical: ages 21-64 years; colorectal: ages …

Sclerosing Epithelioid Mesenchymal Neoplasm Of The Pancreas - A Proposed New Entity, Olca Basturk, Britta Weigelt, Volkan Adsay, Jamal K Benhamida, Gokce Askan, Lu Wang, Maria E. Arcila, Giuseppe Zamboni, Noriyoshi Fukushima, Rodrigo Gularte-Mérida, Arnaud Da Cruz Paula, Pier Selenica, Rahul Kumar, Fresia Pareja, Christopher A. Maher, John Scholes, Yoshinao Oda, Donatella Santini, Leona A. Doyle, Iver Petersen, Uta Flucke, Christian Koelsche, Samuel J. Reynolds, Aslihan Yavas, Andreas Von Deimling, Jorge S. Reis-Filho, David S. Klimstra

Pathology Research and Scholarship

We have encountered pancreatic tumors with unique histologic features, which do not conform to any of the known tumors of the pancreas or other anatomical sites. We aimed to define their clinicopathologic features and whether they are characterized by recurrent molecular signatures. Eight cases were identified; studied histologically and by immunohistochemistry. Selected cases were also subjected to whole-exome sequencing (WES; n = 4), RNA-sequencing (n = 6), Archer FusionPlex assay (n = 5), methylation profiling using the Illumina MethylationEPIC (850k) array platform (n = 6), and TERT promoter sequencing (n = 5). Six neoplasms occurred in females. The mean age …

Protocols, Practices, And Needs For Investigating Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths, Carri Cottengim, Sharyn Parks, Dale Rhoda, Tom Andrew, Kurt B. Nolte, John Fudenberg, Mary Ann Sens, Jennifer Brustrom, Betsy Payn, Carrie K. Shapiro-Mendoza

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Understanding case identification practices, protocols, and training needs of medical examiners and coroners (MEC) may inform efforts to improve cause-of-death certification. We surveyed a U.S.-representative sample of MECs and described investigation practices and protocols used in certifying sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID). We also identified MEC training and resource needs. Of the 377 respondents, use of the SUID Investigation Reporting Form or an equivalent was 89% for large, 87% for medium, and 52% for small jurisdictions. Routine completion of infant medical history, witness interviews, autopsy, photos or videos, and family social history for infant death investigations was ≥80%, but routine …

Problematic Plant Monitoring In Homestead National Monument Of America, 2006–2017, Craig C. Young

United States National Park Service: Publications

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Managers are challenged with the impact of problematic plants, including exotic, invasive, and pest plant species. Information on the abundance, distribution, and location of these plants is essential for developing risk-based approaches to managing these species. Based on surveys conducted in 2006, 2009, 2013, and 2017, Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network staff and contractors identified a cumulative total of 20 potentially problematic plant species in Homestead National Monument of America (NMA). Of the 13 species found in 2017, we characterized 4 as very low frequency, 4 as low frequency, 2 as medium frequency, and 3 as high frequency. Only …

Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

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2008-2009 Automotive Bridge Loans For Chrysler And Gm, Alexander Nye

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In fall of 2008, America's Big Three automakers neared their breaking point. Two of them, General Motors (GM) and Chrysler, asked Congress for funding to prevent uncontrolled bankruptcies. Policymakers realized these uncontrolled bankruptcies would damage the manufacturing sector. Congress considered but failed to pass, a framework conditioning short-term financing on the companies producing acceptable restructuring plans. With the companies warning that they could not survive the coming presidential transition, on December 19, 2008, President Bush announced the Automotive Industry Financing Program under the authority of the Emergency Economic Stability Act of 2008, which made up to $17.4 billion available to …

Tarp Tracker From October 2008 To December 2020 (Auto Tab), United States: Department Of The Treasury

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Bone Marrow Concentrate (Bmc) Therapy In Musculoskeletal Disorders: Evidence-Based Policy Position Statement Of American Society Of Interventional Pain Physicians (Asipp), Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Christopher J. Centeno, Sairam Atluri, Sheri L. Albers, Shane Shapiro, Gerard A. Malanga, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Mairin Jerome, Joshua A. Hirsch, Alan David Kaye, Steve M. Aydin, Douglas Beall, Don Buford, Joanne Borg-Stein, Ricardo M. Buenaventura, Joseph A. Cabaret, Aaron K. Calodney, Kenneth D. Candido, Cameron Cartier, Richard Latchaw, Sudhir Diwan, Ehren Dodson, Zachary Fausel, Michael Fredericson, Christopher G. Gharibo, Mayank Gupta, Adam M. Kaye, Nebojsa Nick Knezevic, Radomir Kosanovic, Matthew Lucas, Maanasa V. Manchikanti, R. Amadeus Mason, Kenneth Mautner, Samuel Murala, Annu Navani, Vidyasagar Pampati, Sarah Pastoriza, Ramarao Pasupuleti, Cyril Philip, Mahendra R Sanapati, Theodore Sand, Rinoo V Shah, Amol Soin, Ian Stemper, Bradley W Wargo, Philippe Hernigou

School of Pharmacy Faculty Articles

BACKGROUND: The use of bone marrow concentrate (BMC) for treatment of musculoskeletal disorders has become increasingly popular over the last several years, as technology has improved along with the need for better solutions for these pathologies. The use of cellular tissue raises a number of issues regarding the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulation in classifying these treatments as a drug versus just autologous tissue transplantation. In the case of BMC in musculoskeletal and spine care, this determination will likely hinge on whether BMC is homologous to the musculoskeletal system and spine.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this review is …

Analysis Of Us Accidents And Solutions, Swapnil Kisan Nikam

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Reducing traffic accidents is an essential public safety challenge all over the world; therefore, accident analysis has been a subject of much research in recent decades.

The objective of the project is to analyze the US accident data from 50 states to inform the US government agencies and the general public on trends and possible causes of traffic accidents and what could be done to reduce them. The analysis include number of accidents by year, number of accidents by state, best time to travel by month, day and hour, accident-prone area in each state, factors responsible of the accidents like …

Analysis On Addiction And Opioid Crisis: Implications And Solutions, Bhavika Korat

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Opioids have become a popular way of pain management treatment over the past decades and although they have proven to be very successful to treat pain, they require serious attention as they have become the cause of addiction and overdose deaths. Opioid overdose costs the US government $78.5 billion each year. This project exhibits the background on opioids, the different types of opioids and their role in the addiction and overdose epidemic. The objective behind this project was to demonstrate what kind of people are more vulnerable to addiction and overdose.

This project shows the statistics of opioid overdose deaths …

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Ocriplasmin Versus Watchful Waiting For Treatment Of Symptomatic Vitreomacular Adhesion In The Us, Arshad M Khanani, Pravin U Dugel, Julia A Haller, Alan L Wagner, Benedicte Lescrauwaet, Ralph Schmidt, Craig Bennison

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

Aim: Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of ocriplasmin in symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) with or without full-thickness macular hole ≤400 μm versus standard of care.

Methods: A state-transition model simulated a cohort through disease health states; assignment of utilities to health states reflected the distribution of visual acuity. Efficacy of ocriplasmin was derived from logistic regression models using Ocriplasmin for Treatment for Symptomatic Vitreomacular Adhesion Including Macular Hole trial data. Model inputs were extracted from Phase III trials and published literature. The analysis was conducted from a US Medicare perspective.

Results: Lifetime incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was US$4887 per quality-adjusted life year gained …

Preferences Of U.S. Faculty Members Regarding The Teaching- Research Nexus, W. James Jacob

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to examine research and teaching trends over the past 30 years in U.S. higher education. While some faculty lean toward teaching and others toward research, often the two areas of intersect in synergistic and complementary ways. The merit of this study is that it is a follow-up of two earlier surveys. Findings include an examination of national data from 1992, 2007, and 2018 on a few select areas of the teaching-research nexus. The 2018 data includes 1,135 faculty responses from 80 higher education institutions in the United States. The once dominant research output gap …

Evidence For Gene-Smoking Interactions For Hearing Loss And Deafness In Japanese American Families, Jia Y Wan, Christina Cataby, Andrew Liem, Emily Jeffrey, Trina M Norden-Krichmar, Deborah Goodman, Stephanie A Santorico, Karen L Edwards

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: This study investigated the relationship between smoking and hearing loss and deafness (HLD) and whether the relationship is modified by genetic variation. Data for these analyses was from the subset of Japanese American families collected as part of the American Diabetes Association Genetics of Non-insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus study. Logistic regression with generalized estimating equations assessed the relationship between HLD and smoking. Nonparametric linkage analysis identified genetic regions harboring HLD susceptibility genes and ordered subset analysis was used to identify regions showing evidence for gene-smoking interactions. Genetic variants within these candidate regions were then each tested for interaction with …

Judging "Under Fire" And The Retreat To Facts, Allison Orr Larsen

William & Mary Law Review

Americans tend to worry about how our current polarized political climate will affect the legitimacy of our courts. Often overlooked in this important conversation is a discussion about what a toxic political dialogue can do—and in fact is doing—to the construction of the law itself. This Article will begin to make the case that judicial decisions themselves change as a result of high-intensity politics. Specifically, I will argue that when judges are “under fire” (to borrow a phrase from Planned Parenthood v. Casey), they tend to cloak their decisions in factual observations about the world that seem neutral and objective, …

Disease-Modifying Therapy Adherence And Associated Factors In A National Sample Of Medicare Patients With Multiple Sclerosis, Pengxiang Li, Vrushabh P Ladage, Joseph Berger, Salim Chahin, Mehul Jhaveri, Caroline Geremakis, Jalpa A Doshi

Open Access Publications

OBJECTIVES: Disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) reduce relapse rates and disability progression for relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS). Although 25% to 30% of all US patients with MS are Medicare beneficiaries, limited information exists on this population. This is the first study using national Medicare data to (1) describe characteristics of patients with MS using DMTs, (2) estimate adherence to DMTs over a 1-year and 3-year follow-up, and (3) examine factors associated with DMT adherence.

METHODS: This retrospective claims analysis used 2011-2014 100% Medicare files. Monthly adherence to MS DMTs was defined as the proportion of days covered ≥0.80 with any DMT in …

Probable African Tick Bite Fever In The United States, Kami Lowery, Theodore Rosen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

African tick bite fever (ATBF) is a tick-borne rickettsial disease most often observed in North American and European tourists returning home from the southern portion of Africa. Ticks infected with Rickettsia africae transmit this parasitic bacterium to humans, who subsequently develop an influenza-like illness, one or more inoculation eschars, and in some cases, a cutaneous rash. Because ATBF often presents with non-specific symptoms that suggest other infectious diseases, establishing the diagnosis may be difficult. Confirmatory assays, including serology and nucleic acid amplification, may take weeks to return and cannot help with acute treatment decisions. We present a case of a …

Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Alejandro Latorre, Alejandro Latorre, Maryann Haggerty

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Suggested Citation Form: Haggerty, Maryann, 2020. “Lessons Learned Interview."Interview by Maryann Haggerty.. Yale Program on Financial Stability Lessons Learned Oral History Project. February 26, 2020. Transcript. https://ypfs.som.yale.edu/library/ypfs-lesson-learned-oral-history-project-interview-alejandro-latorre

Thoroughbred Racehorse Welfare Through The Lens Of ‘Social License To Operate—With An Emphasis On A U.S. Perspective, Camie Heleski, C. Jill Stowe, Julie Fiedler, Michael L. Peterson, Colleen Brady, Carissa Wickens, James N. Macleod

Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

This review addresses the question of whether Thoroughbred horse racing is sustainable in the context of current social values. A recently acknowledged framework, known as ‘Social License to Operate’ (SLO), provides us with a lens through which to view and assess racehorse welfare. In multiple surveys of the general public, the horse owning public, and university students, the primary topics of concern regarding Thoroughbred racing show considerable concordance: concern about catastrophic injuries—particularly as related to track surfaces, concern over the racing of two-year-olds, whip use by jockeys, drug/medication policies, and aftercare opportunities for retired Thoroughbred racehorses. Legitimacy of an industry, …

Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor, Maryann Haggerty

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Suggested Citation Form: Taylor, Zachary, 2020. “Lessons Learned Interview."Interview by Maryann Haggerty. Yale Program on Financial Stability Lessons Learned Oral History Project. July 28, 2020. Transcript. https://ypfs.som.yale.edu/library/ypfs-lesson-learned-oral-history-project-interview-zachary-taylor