This issue brief examines the recent history and trends in state budgets and considers how those trends have influenced the role of the Medicaid program. The paper offers several indicators for predicting the future of states' fiscal standing, cautioning that, although the "stormy" period from 2001 to 2003 is over, states face many challenges in he near future. This issue brief also poses sever...

reed warbler here and never an icterine, a bird whose notes are firmly fixed in my head. The Norfolk coast, in addition to furnishing breeding grounds for some large colonies of terns, is a good place to see migrants, many of which find temporary shelter in the low growth on the saltings and sandhills. Sometimes, especially in foggy weather, a hold-up of migrants occurs. This autumn, for instan...

In this letter, we investigate the ergodic capacity of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based free space optics (FSO) links over random foggy channel. More specifically, derive composite probability density function (PDF) and close approximation for moments PDF using statistical model a UAV-based 3D pointing error With it, obtain upper bound asymptotic two possible detection techniques intensity m...

200 CMAJ, February 17, 2015, 187(3) ©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors During a rugby tournament, a 15-year-old girl was tackled and her head struck her op ponent’s knee. She was slow to get up, and appeared unsteady and dazed. After using the Pocket Concussion Recognition Tool1 to assess the player’s condition, her coach suspected that she had a concussion and removed her from the game...

FOR TOO LONG THE STUDY OF COMMUNISM AND COMmunist movements has preceded as sui generis, with no concern for its relation to broader academic areas of inquiry or for some of the more pertinent questions of the epoch. Scholars in Communist affairs have passed their colleagues working in other areas of academic inquiry like ships in a foggy sea, heading for similar destinations and using analogou...