In this edited interview, Glenn Patterson speaks with Bruce Barr and Alison Boyle of Quebec's Chateauguay Valley to discuss their initiative transition Brysonville Schoolhouse Revisited, a monthly open-mic, an online livestream format using both Zoom Facebook Live in response the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. They describe how personal motivations for making transition; it impacted daily lives...

the protective effect of a l-type calcium channel blocker, nimodipine, on cell injury induced by oxygen-glucose deprivation (ogd) in pc12 cells was investigated. pc12 cells were exposed to in-vitro oxygen-glucose deprivation (30 minutes and 60 minutes respectively) in the presence or absence of nimodipine (10mm/l) in three different time schedules (pre-24h, pre-3h and concurrently). cellular vi...

This Article undertakes the first empirical study of the influence of the PTO’s funding on the agency’s decision-making. More specifically, this Article studies the influence of the PTO’s budgetary structure on the most important decision made by the agency: whether or not to grant a patent. It begins by setting forth a theoretical model predicting that certain elements of the PTO’s fee schedul...

In this article, the authors simulate the effects on Federal and State Medicaid expenditures of increasing Medicaid fees to Medicare fee schedule (MFS) levels. Strict adoption of the MFS by the States would increase total Medicaid spending by approximately 4 percent, $2.5 to $2.9 billion. Because Medicaid fees vary across States, so does the impact of adopting the MFS. Medicaid spending would i...