Programmer/Analyst Lara Hilton, BA Database Manager Shannon Rhodes, MFA Research Assistant Hsien Seow, BS Staff Assistant Cony Rolón, BA Director Paul G. Shekelle, MD, PhD Senior Statistician/Co-Director Sally C. Morton, PhD Project Manager/Policy Analyst Margaret Maglione, MPP Reviewers Sydney Dy, PhD Ronda Hughes, PhD, MHS, RN Richard Mularski, MD Lisa Shugarman, PhD Virginia Sun, RN Anne M. ...

Material flow analysis (MFA) is a useful tool to predict the flows of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) to the environment. The quantification of release factors is a crucial part of MFA modeling. In the last years an increasing amount of literature on release of ENM from materials and products has been published. The purpose of this review is to analyze the strategies implemented by MFA models to...

While affordances have been intensively studied, the mechanisms according to how their activation is modulated by context are poorly understood. We investigated how the Agent׳s reach-to-grasp movement towards a target-object (e.g. a can) is influenced by the other׳s interaction with a second object (manipulative/functional) and by his/her eye-gaze communication. To manipulate physical context w...

BACKGROUND Economic transition which took place in China over the last three decades, has led to a rapid marketization of the health care sector. Today inequity in health and poverty resulting from major illness has become a serious problem in rural areas of China. Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) is a health assistance scheme that helps rural poor people cope with major illness and alleviate...

BACKGROUND China uses both social health insurance (SHI) programs and a medical financial assistance (MFA) program to protect the poor from illness-induced financial risks. The MFA provides a dual benefit package targeting low-income families: subsidizing these families' participation in SHI programs, and providing cash aid to protect them from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). This study ...

In this paper we review recent sociological research dealing with the consumption of culture produced in the fine and popular arts realms. We note that most of the initial theoretical developments in the sociological study of culture consumption were first developed to explain audience segmentation in the fine arts realm under what we refer as the “cultural capital” paradigm developed by Pierre...

the relationship between creativity and mental health and the extend to which different aspects of creativity (elaboration, flexibility, fluency and originality) could predict different aspects of mental health, was studied in college students. 248 subjects were selected as an available pool of subjects and they were given creativity, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and perceived stress tests....

The article deals with curatorial projects, international biennials and the participation of local artists, their achievements impact renewal process on art in general, which entered modern fine arts Uzbekistan late twentieth early twenty-first centuries. In this process, our artists have adapted to growing interest world trends, new postmodern trends Western aesthetics, general environment for...