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An Assessment Of The Safety Net In Atlanta, Georgia, Jennel Harvey, Marsha Regenstein, Karen C. Jones

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This report examines issues that shape the health care network available to uninsured and underserved residents in Atlanta. It provides background on the Atlanta health care safety net and describes key characteristics of the populations served by the safety net. It then outlines the structure of the safety net and funding mechanisms that support health care safety net services. The report also includes an analysis of challenges facing providers of primary and specialty care services and specific barriers that some populations face in trying to access them.

An Assessment Of The Safety Net In San Diego, California, Khoa Nguyen, Peter Shin, Marsha Regenstein, Marcia J. Wilson, Kyle Kenney, Karen C. Jones

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This report examines key issues that shape the health care network available to uninsured and underserved residents in San Diego. It provides background on the San Diego health care safety net and describes key characteristics of the populations served by the safety net. It then outlines the structure of the safety net and funding mechanisms that support health care safety net services. The report also includes an analysis of key challenges facing providers of primary and specialty care services and specific barriers that some populations face in trying to access them.

An Assessment Of The Safety Net In San Antonio, Texas, Marcia Wilson, Peter Shin, Marsha Regenstein, Karen C. Jones

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This report examines key issues that shape the health care network available to uninsured and underserved residents in San Antonio. It provides background on the San Antonio health care safety net and describes key characteristics of the populations served by the safety net. It then outlines the structure of the safety net and funding mechanisms that support health care safety net services. The report also includes an analysis of key challenges facing providers of primary and specialty care services and specific barriers that some populations face in trying to access them.

An Assessment Of The Safety Net In Phoenix, Arizona, Lea Nolan, Lissette Vaquerano, Marsha Regenstein, Karen C. Jones

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This report examines key issues that shape the health care network available to uninsured and underserved residents in Phoenix. It provides background on the Phoenix health care safety net and describes key characteristics of the populations served by the safety net. It then outlines the structure of the safety net and funding mechanisms that support health care safety net services. The report also includes an analysis of key challenges facing providers of primary and specialty care services and specific barriers that some populations face in trying to access them.

Vol. 27 Nos. 1/2 (2004): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 27, Nos. 1/2-Mar 2004 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.

Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 1, Issue 1, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

Connections: Library News for Library Staff

The purpose of Connections was to build community within UTA Library staff by reminding people of upcoming events and dates, introducing new staff members, celebrating a department's achievements, and writing about other items of interest.

Restorative Justice, Responsive Regulation And Social Work, Gale Burford, Paul Adams

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Two of the dichotomies or tensions at the heart of this profession are especially important for the themes of this special issue on restorative justice and responsive regulation. These are the relation between formal and informal helping and between care and control, or empowerment and coercion. In this article, we make a case for the importance of Braithwaite's work, especially his (2002) book, Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation, for conceptualizing the nature of social work in relation to these dualities. Since Braithwaite's writings do not have social work or social welfare scholars and professionals as their primary audience and are …

Working Together To Stop Domestic Violence: State-Community Partnerships And The Changing Meaning Of Public And Private, Kristin A. Kelly

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The increasing reliance in the United States on state-community partner- ships to address social problems represents both new opportunities and new dangers. This article presents examples of both possibilities through a consideration of contemporary collaborations between state and nonstate actors in the development of a public response to domestic violence. This discussion provides the basis for an elaboration of a conceptual approach to public/private relationships that replaces the traditional dichotomy with a triangular relationship, of state, family and community. By improving on our ability to think through the complex relationships between these three spheres, it is argued that this model …

Family Group Conferencing In Child Welfare: Responsive And Regulatory Interfaces, Joan Pennell

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A regulatory approach compels the child welfare worker to make decisions according to set procedures and prevents responding flexibly to families. Differential response is a way that child welfare is departing from legal formalism. One means is convening a family group conference (FGC) to develop a plan. John Braithwaite's regulatory pyramid assists in concep- tualizing differential response. This article reports a factor analysis of data on achievement of FGC objectives to elaborate three interfaces for fostering responsive regulation. Each interface keeps the family group at the center of planning while firmly maintaining their connections with community and government programs.

Sharing Power With The People: Family Group Conferencing As A Democratic Experiment, Lisa Merkel-Holguin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Can family group conferencing be leveraged to promote the democratic ideals of voice, freedom, justice, fairness, equality, and respect, and provide the citizenry with the opportunity to build a more just and civil society? This article reviews family group conferencing, and various model adaptations, from a democratic context and through the lens of responsive regulation.

Families And The Republic, John Braithwaite

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Restorative and responsive justice can be a strategy of social work practice that builds democracy bottom-up by seeing families as building blocks of democracy and fonts of democratic sentiment. At the same time, because families are sites of the worst kinds of tyranny and the worst kinds of neglect, a rule of law is needed that imposes public human rights obligations on families. The republican ideal is that this rule of law that constrains people in families should come from the people. Restorative and responsive justice has a strategy for the justice of the people to bubble up into the …

Review Of Controversial Issues In Social Policy. Howard Jacob Karger, James Midgley, & C Brene Brown (Eds.). Reviewed By Mizanur R. Miah., Mizanur R. Miah

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Howard Jacob Karger, James Midgley and C. Brene Brown (Eds.), Controversial Issues in Social Policy. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003. $ 24.67 papercover.

Review Of Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective. Katherine Van Wormer & Diane Rae Davis. Reviewed By Mike Gorman., Mike Gorman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Van Wormer, Katherine and Davis, Diane Rae, Addiction Treatment A Strength's Perspective, Pacific Grove, CA: Thomson Brooks Cole, 2003. $ 51.92 papercover.

Reaching Higher: The Power Of Expectations In Schooling. Rhona Weinstein.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Rhona Weinstein, Reaching Higher: The Power of Expectations in Schooling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. $39.95 hardcover.

Crowd Scenes: Pacific Collectivity And European Encounter, Vanessa Smith

Pacific Studies

This essay looks at the phenomenon of the Pacific crowd as registered within eighteenth-century voyage accounts. The experience of the crowd on the beach-an experience of being overwhelmed-was integral to European encounters with Pacific islanders. However, the impact of the crowd has been neglected within Pacific scholarship, which has not accessed the insights of crowd theory within analyses of contact. Concomitantly, crowd theory ignores the peripheral crowd scene. The crowd has been theorized as a predominantly metropolitan phenomenon and historicized in the context of (primarily industrial) urbanization. Through close textual analysis of a number of European voyage texts, particularly Bligh's …

Thermal-Transfer Printing: A Better Way To Print Library Labels, Cheryl D. Walters

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Thermal-transfer printing, a technology borrowed from the manufacturing sector, offers libraries a flexible method for printing durable, accurate, legible, and attractive labels that reliably adhere to most book surfaces. When guided by an electronic program customized to meet a library’s particular needs, a thermal-transfer printing system offers virtually limitless variations in font, format, and functionality. It can print labels directly from the online catalog, thereby guaranteeing that call numbers on labels match what patrons see in the catalog. This article explains thermal-transfer printing and how it compares with other printing technologies, briefly explores applications in both the manufacturing and library …

Gods, Heroes, & Kings: The Battle For Mythic Britain, Christopher R. Fee, David A. Leeming

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and …

Hollins Columns (2004 Mar 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Administration adapts
• Team completes master plan draft
• Senate rejects emergency contraception bill
• Celebrating life brings campus together
• Sitton adjusts to temporary position
• Calendar of Events March 2-14, 2004
• Sound off: What do you think about the Democratic primaries?
• Atkins diet difficult for some to stomach
• 'Vagina Monologues' returns to campus
• Not to get political to anything, but...
• What are you really saying with your tip?
• SGA Officers Spring 2004
• Dear Editor: Since when are we on equal footing?
• Cochran sets precedent in basketball
• Swimmers kick fin at ODAC championship

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol. 29, No. 3, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

Invisible Health Crisis

Women on the Row

Inmigrantes: Hay nuevos datos

Wal-Mart enfrenta nuevas demandas

Voices From Inside

Subscription Renewal Reminder & Thank You

Thank you Resist!

Correction

Another 3 Strikes

Screams or Shouts

Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition

Crime of the Month

From Animal Abuse To Interhuman Violence? A Critical Review Of The Progression Thesis, Piers Beirne

Department of Criminology

This paper reviews evidence of a progression from animal abuse to interhuman violence. It finds that the ''progression thesis" is supported not by a coherent research program but by disparate studies often lacking methodological and conceptual clarity. Set in the context of a debate about the theoretical adequacy of concepts like "animal abuse" and ''animal cruelty," it suggests that the link between animal abuse and interhuman violence should be sought not only in the personal biographies of those individuals who abuse animals but also in those institutionalized social practices where animal abuse is routine, widespread, and socially acceptable.

Decision Analysis Using Value Focused Thinking To Select Renewable Energy Sources, James S. Duke

Theses and Dissertations

The United States is heavily dependent on fossil fuels to produce electricity. Renewable energy can provide an alternative source of energy for electricity production as well as reduce fossil fuel consumption. The executive agencies in the U.S. must also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010 based on 1990 emission levels as directed by Executive Order. However, there is currently no analysis model to provide guidance toward which renewable energy to select as a course of action. This research effort used value-focused thinking decision analysis to create a model based on inputs from the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency. This …

Smoothed Empirical Likelihood Methods For Quantile Regression Models, Yoon-Jae Whang

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper considers an empirical likelihood method to estimate the parameters of the quantile regression (QR) models and to construct confidence regions that are accurate in finite samples. To achieve the higher-order refinements, we smooth the estimating equations for the empirical likelihood. We show that the smoothed empirical likelihood (SEL) estimator is first-order asymptotically equivalent to the standard QR estimator and establish that confidence regions based on the smoothed empirical likelihood ratio have coverage errors of order n –1 and may be Bartlett-corrected to produce regions with an error of order n –2 , where n denotes the sample size. …

Keynote Address, Sanusi O. Joseph

Bullion

This is a keynote address delivered at the 5^th Annual Finance Correspondents and Business Editors Seminar held in Owerri, lmo State from 26^th – 28^th January, 2004. It is the fifth in the series of the seminar initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to enhance the understanding and analytical ability of Finance Correspondents and Business Editors on topical economic issues, particularly monetary and financial sector development. It presents an opportunity for them to appreciate and analyse the Bank's policies and operations better, as well as, facilitate improvement in reporting on those issues. It will help …

An Overview Of The Nigerian Financial System, Aderibigbe J. O.

Bullion

Financial systems, the world over, play fundamental roles in the development and growth of the economy. The effectiveness and efficiency in performing these roles, particularly the intermediation between the surplus and deficit units of the economy, depend largely on the level of development of the financial system. It is to ensure its soundness that the financial sector appears to be the most regulated and controlled by the government and its agencies. This paper discusses issues and strategies for enhancing the soundness and stability of the nation's financial system, the roles of the financial system in the promotion of economic growth …

The Role Of The Central Bank In The Nigeria Financial System, Onyido C. Ben

Bullion

The central bank is pivotal in the management of the national economy. lts role is not only to regulate and monitor the financial system, but also to ensure its development, prevent financial distress which could undermine confidence in the system as well as facilitate sustained growth. This paper presents an overview of the Nigerian financial system, the functions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). It examines the Bank's monetary management, surveillance and promotional roles and the challenges for the CBN. The study concludes that, the enhanced operational autonomy of the CBN has provided a unique opportunity for the Bank …

Understanding And Interpreting Financial Statements, Awoyungbo B. O.

Bullion

As the owners of a company the shareholders, through its Board, are responsible for the hiring and firing of the management of their company. The principles of company finance are therefore based upon the assumption that the objective of management is to maximise the wealth of its ordinary shareholders. This paper discusses some of the general principles which are applied in the preparation of financial statements. It lists and explains the following components of a financial statement; Statement of Accounting Policies, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account, Notes to the Accounts, Cash flow statements ,Value added statements, Five year financial …

The Impact Of The Operations Of The Non-Bank Financial Institutions On Financial Sector Stability, Bamisile A. Sesan

Bullion

The Banks and Other Financial institutions Act (BOFIA) defines an NBFI to mean "any individual, body, association or group of persons; whether corporate or unincorporated, other than the banks licenced under the Act which carries on the business of a discount house, finance company and money brokerage and whose principal object include factoring, project financing, equipment leasing, debt administration, fund management, private ledger services, investment management, local purchase order financing, export finance, project consultancy financial consultancy, pension fund management and such other business as the Bank may, from time to time, designate". This paper affords the opportunity to explain and …

Causes Of Bank Distress And Resolution Options, Donli J. G

Bullion

A meaningful analysis of causes of bank distress and the options for resolution would probably need to be preceded by a brief discussion of the role of banks in an economy. This paper examines the meaning of bank distress, it presents a detailed discussion of the main causes of bank distress as they relate to Nigeria in particular, it provides a review of the literature on resolution options as well as an enumeration of resolution options adopted to address bank distress in Nigeria. lt's has been observed in the paper that while the general causes of bank distress appear to …

The New Capital Accord: Challenges For The Central Bank Of Nigeria And Nigerian Banks., Imala O. Ignatius

Bullion

Capital occupies a vital position in the life of a bank, like any other business. It plays the role of a cushion for losses resulting from crystallisation of the various risks a business entity is exposed to. This paper summarises the 1988 Accord and its inadequacies. It introduces the new Accord, the need for it and its structure. It highlights the challenges to both operators and regulators, and It discusses efforts of the supervisory authorities to implement the Accord in Nigeria. The challenges highlighted in this paper are by no means exhaustive but it is believed that the attempt would …

My Alluny Memories, Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

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