Assign each rural county to an urban county. Let i index urban counties, and let j each of the rural counties assigned to a particular urban county; let j = 0 for the urban county. DeÞne an urban county and its assigned rural counties as a group, and let Ji be the number of rural counties in group i. Let Nij be the number of nurses in county j of group i, and let Pij be the population of county...

EDWARD O. WILEY, PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY, MATTHEW T. CRAIG, MATTHEW P. DAVIS, NANCY I. HOLCROFT, RICHARD L. MAYDEN & WM. LEO SMITH Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A. E-mails: [email protected] (PC), matthewdavis...

The effect of forestland availability under different ownership types on license sales for hunting in nine Southeastern states is empirically evaluated. An equation that represents license sales for hunting is estimated assuming the sale of hunting licenses in a particular county is related to the characteristics of that county as well as the characteristics and license sales for hunting in its...

Before the changes instituted by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997, Medicare payments to managed care organizations were based on per capita fee-forservice (FFS) costs in each county for the aged and disabled populations. Wi t h i n each county Medicare payments were adjusted by demographic factors including age and sex, as well as welfare and institutional status. This payment system, whic...

T he U n iv e r s i ty 's po licy regarding smoking on campus has been updated to include a ban on smoking within 25 feet of the outside of any building. The change, accord ing to a News and Information release, was approved on Aug. 26. The primary reasons for the revision are two-fold, Michael McCauslin, assistant director of Notre Dame Risk Management and Safety, said. The new perim eter will...

This paper examines the effect of rental housing development subsidized by the government’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program on local crime. We take advantage of changes in the formula used to determine the eligibility of census tracts for Qualified Census Tract (QCT) status, which affects the size of the tax credits developers receive for building lowincome housing. QCT status attracts re...

non-bloody, projectile vomiting. Caregivers also reported unusual drowsiness and tactile fever. He had trouble finding the right words and had been using incorrect words in sentences. Anita Gupta, MD; and Surabhi Batra, MD, are pediatric residents at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago. Rosibell Del C. Arcia Diaz, MD; and Norman Jacobs, MD, are attending physicians, John H. Str...

County Council (ALF), the ChAMP Consortium, the Swedish Strategical Research Foundation (SSF), the V ardal Foundation, and Karolinska Institutet. Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: S. E. Dalhen has received grants from the Swedish Science Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation; has a board membership with RSPR Pharma; and has consultant arrang...

InVigo County,lndiana (USA), convicted drunk drivers are sentenced to Electronically Monitored Home Detention (EMHD) and day Repirting Program (DRC) programs. Previous researchers did not conduct a comparative study on these offenders placed in thi nvo programs in the same jurisdiction. This study focuses on those convicted drunk drivers who were placed in the two programs inVigo County, and co...