JULY 1, 1976, marks the tenth annwersary of the start of Medicare Enacted Into law m 1965 as title XVIII of the Soaal Security ActHealth Insurance for the Aged-the new program went Into effect on July 1, 1966, and began to provide basic health msursnce coverage for persons aged 65 and over-the age group with the highest mmdence of dlness and dlsnblhty, the lowest mcome, and the least adequate p...

A diverse group of researchers working on both plant and animal systems met at a Company of Biologists workshop to discuss ‘Coordinating Cell Polarity’. The meeting included considerable free discussion as well as presentations exploring the ways that groups of cells in these various systems achieve coordinated cell polarity. Here, we discuss commonalities, differences and themes that emerged f...

This paper offers a framework for contemplating both past and future research on the relationship between innovation and economic growth in a Canadian context. The discussion is presented in three parts. First, the theoretical relationship between innovation and growth is briefly summarized and augmented with a review of current empirical research on the related topics of knowledge spillovers a...

During class discussions we covered a number of cross-cutting themes, but never directly addressed the relationship between technology and social values. However, after working on case studies and seeing the presentations of other students it became clear to me that values held by the society can have a large influence on the development and adoption of technologies. Every technology has to pas...

Governments have been using computers since the early 1950s and academics have been writing about government’s use of computers for almost as long. This paper explores this literature and examines the evolution of research into and thinking about the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in government and public administration over the past 50 years. Questions asked include to ...

This paper overviews FBK’s participation in the RTE-7 Main task organized within the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011. Our participation is characterized by two main themes, namely: 1. The attempt to move from token-level overlap measures (i.e. a count of the terms in the hypothesis that can be mapped to terms in the Text), to phraselevel overlap measures that take into account a larger cont...

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r0 All comments from T10/04-327r1 converted to comments resolution format. No resolution attempted for any comments. r1 Resolved editorial 'theme' comments (i.e., comments where a single change like "red should be blue" is requested in multiple comments) that do not significantly affect the pagination of the main body of the document. Most notable among the 'theme' comments were those related t...