Bilingual Communities: U. S. National /Regional Profiles and Verbal Repertoires

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 220-239
Author(s):  
Richard V. Teschner
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bilingual Communities ◽  
To Receive

From the vantage point of August 1, 1985, the past three years are better characterized by what has failed to happen, politically, in realms directly affecting the concerns of applied linguistics in the United States than by what actually has happened. Despite 55 months of the Reagan Revolution, the Department of Education is still intact, and, with it, the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA). Bilingual education continues to receive federal funding, though predictably at levels that satisfy neither its advocates (too low) nor its detractors (too high).

DISCOVER: Assessing and Developing Problem Solving

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. June Maker
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
The United States ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Gifted And Talented Education

Discovering Intellectual Strengths and Capabilities while Observing Varied Ethnic Responses (DISCOVER) is an on-going program of research and development that began in 1987. The primary goal of the project is to design better ways to assess and develop the problem solving abilities of children and youth. Stemming from my doctoral dissertation in which I identified problem solving as a key component in the achievements of successful scientists with disabilities, I (1993; 1978; 1981; Whitmore & Maker, 1985), have investigated problem solving in varied domains, with diverse populations in projects funded by the Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program and The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in the United States Department of Education. In this article, I will summarize the important ideas and the research completed, both published and unpublished.

Industry Payments to Plastic Surgeons: What Has Changed Over the Last Six-Years Following Implementation of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland W Pettit ◽  
Jordan Kaplan ◽  
Matthew M Delancy ◽  
Edward Reece ◽  
Sebastian Winocour ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Stock Options ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Physician Payment ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Open Payments

Abstract Background The Open Payments Program, as designated by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act is the single largest repository of industry payments made to licensed physicians within the United States. Though sizeable in its dataset, the database and user interface are limited in their ability to permit expansive data interpretation and summarization. Objectives We sought to comprehensively compare industry payments made to plastic surgeons with payments made to all surgeons and all physicians to elucidate industry relationships since implementation. Methods The Open Payments Database was queried between 2014 and 2019, and inclusion criteria were applied. These data were evaluated in aggregate and for yearly totals, payment type, and geographic distribution. Results 61,000,728 unique payments totaling $11,815,248,549 were identified over the six-year study period. 9,089 plastic surgeons, 121,151 surgeons, and 796,260 total physicians received these payments. Plastic surgeons annually received significantly less payment than all surgeons (p=0.0005). However, plastic surgeons did not receive significantly more payment than all physicians (p = 0.0840). Cash and cash equivalents proved to be the most common form of payment; Stock and stock options were least commonly transferred. Plastic surgeons in Tennessee received the most in payments between 2014-2019 (mean $ 76,420.75). California had the greatest number of plastic surgeons to receive payments (1,452 surgeons). Conclusions Plastic surgeons received more in industry payments than the average of all physicians but received less than all surgeons. The most common payment was cash transactions. Over the past six years, geographic trends in industry payments have remained stable.

Cooperative Preservation in the United States

1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Patricia Battin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quality Controls ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Cooperative Enterprise ◽  
Funding Support

A nationwide cooperative preservation programme has been launched in the United States with federal funding support with the aim of ensuring the responsible stewardship of published and documentary knowledge in all formats. The initial priority of this ambitious effort is a cooperative microfilming programme to capture the contents of three million brittle books in 20 years. This cooperative enterprise, requiring the coordination of selection and filming activities among many research institutions, will be financed by the coordination of funds from a variety of sources. An infrastructure of standards for format, bibliographic records, and appropriate quality controls to permit convenient access has been developed during the past 10 years. The programme includes an active effort to develop mechanisms to facilitate international cooperation in filming, sharing of bibliographic data, and exchange of master negatives.

Should Political Scientists Care about Civic Education?

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1135-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Battistoni
Keyword(s):  
Civic Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
K 12 ◽  
American Political Science

For the past decade, concern about a crisis in civic education and engagement, especially among young people, has been rampant. In 2003, The Civic Mission of Schools report sounded a clarion call for greater attention to citizenship education in K–12 schools and touched off a national campaign, joined by such luminaries as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, advocating improvements in the way we educate American youth for participation in democracy. Two years later, the work of the American Political Science Association's Committee on Civic Education and Engagement culminated in the publication of Democracy at Risk, which examined growing trends toward civic disengagement and proposed reforms to reinvigorate political participation in the United States. Just last year, a joint effort by the US Department of Education and the Association of American Colleges and Universities produced A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future, once again chronicling a “civic recession” across the land and issuing a “National Call to Action” for higher education to do more to educate young citizens for democracy.

A Little Reverse Missions: In Search of a Global Perspective in Worship

2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
C. Michael Hawn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Century ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Church

Throughout history the church has often been slow to recognize developments in the sciences and reorder its thinking about God's creation accordingly. The church in the northern world is now facing the reality that Christians in the southern hemisphere outnumber them two to one. The seeds of the gospel planted during the great mission movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have taken hold and Christianity is flourishing in many places in the south. Are Christians in the northern hemisphere ready to receive the gifts of worshiping communities through song and prayer from their southern sisters and brothers? Given the patterns of immigration to the United States, this is not an academic proposal but a reality of the twenty-first century. Congregations in the current century will need a global perspective in local communities. We dare not be as slow to respond to this reality as the church has been to scientific discoveries in the past. This article offers strategies for reciprocal mission mindedness in our worship.

Cultural Aspects of Psychopharmacology

2018 ◽  
pp. 387-391
Author(s):  
S. Nassir Ghaemi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Psychotropic Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Pragmatic Attitude

The practice of psychopharmacology is influenced by cultural factors, including a tendency in the United States for patients and doctors to want to receive pills for symptoms. This therapeutic activism dates back centuries, and it has influenced aggressive treatments in the past such as bleeding the patient. The proponents of DSM-III sought to make psychiatry more empirical, and much of this drive came from the need to diagnose entities that could be treated with the newly emerging psychotropic drugs. In retrospect, it could be concluded that what happened was that the DSM-III–oriented practitioners implemented an American pragmatic attitude to psychiatry that has tended toward both polynosology and polypharmacy. The spirit of pragmatism still lives in the world of contemporary psychiatry. A debate still exists culturally between caution and liberality in the use of medication, for psychological states in particular.

Lactation Support and Breast Milk Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-111
Author(s):  
Kimberly H. Barbas ◽  
Lauren Mudgett
Keyword(s):  
Breast Milk ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Professional Networking ◽  
Regulatory Guidelines ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Dramatic Growth

The past 20 years have seen dramatic growth of hospital lactation programs. There are few regulatory guidelines leaving advocates for lactation services to justify need, safety, and best practice to implement changes. The professional networking group, Children’s Hospital Lactation Network, was surveyed about breast milk facilities and practices. Analysis of survey responses will provide lactation programs with information needed to identify improvements and recognize priorities for lactation practice and safe, effective breast milk management. Lactation programs need specific regulations to guide practice to enable them to receive funding for equipment and staffing and support to make decisions on policies and best practices. Specific recommendations, consistent between regulatory agencies and across the United States, would be beneficial to optimizing lactation support for hospitalized infants and their families.

Manuscripts Concerning Mexico and Central America in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

1962 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicenta Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Past History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
To Receive

There is no doubt that manuscripts proceeding from or referring to Ibero-America which are preserved in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress constitute an interesting collection for the historian of the Hispanic world. This collection was begun in the second half of the nineteenth century when the library started to receive writings, documents, correspondence, and diverse papers relating to the past history of these northern regions and of other countries south of the frontiers of the United States. It was the moment when the North American collectors and antiquarians began to frequent the auctions of papers and books, when individuals and universities began to make their collections of material from which historians could procure documentation for their writings. The Library of Congress did not stay on the fringe of this movement, and some outstanding examples of documentation began to arrive in this depository, so much so that in 1900 the head of the Manuscript Division sent to the Congress of Americanists meeting in Paris a catalogue of the fifteen items relating to Mexico to be found under his care.

Laetrile: Should the Dying Patient Decide?

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
George J. Annas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Anticancer Agent ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Independent Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Dying Patient

On July 1,1980, at four major medical institutions across the United States, the National Cancer Institute began testing Laetrile on cancer patients on whom all other therapy has failed. The study calls for 200 patients to receive the drug, along with a natural food diet. Results should be known in two years, and should demonstrate once and for all whether or not Laetrile has any cancer inhibiting effects. The study was undertaken primarily because of the large amount of publicity proponents of Laetrile have generated over the past five years, rather than any independent evidence that Laetrile may be an effective anticancer agent. Its commencement, however, provides a useful opportunity to review the legal status of Laetrile, and to suggest a possible approach to the controversy it has caused.

Differences in access to healthcare and utilisation of HIV and sexually transmissible infection services between men who have sex with men and men who have sex only with women: results of the 2006–10 National Survey of Family Growth in the United States

Sexual Health ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoyu Tao ◽  
Karen W. Hoover
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sti Testing ◽  
Family Growth ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infection ◽  
Transmissible Infection

Background Men who have sex with men (MSM) experience disparities in access to healthcare and have specific healthcare needs. Methods: We analysed data from the 2006–10 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to examine differences in access to healthcare and HIV and sexually transmissible infection (STI) related health services by MSM and non-MSM among men in the United States aged 15–44 years who have ever had sex. MSM and sexually active MSM were identified in the NSFG as men who had ever had oral or anal sex with another man, or who had sex in the past 12 months with another man, respectively. Access was measured by the type of health insurance, having a usual place for receiving healthcare and type of usual place. Results: Of men aged 15–44 years who have ever had sex, there were no significant differences between MSM and non-MSM in the three access measures. MSM were more likely than non-MSM to receive HIV counselling (22.5% v. 8.3%) and STI testing (26.2% v. 15.6%) in the past 12 months, or to ever have had HIV testing (67.8% v. 44.6%). STI testing in the past 12 months was reported by 38.7% of sexually active MSM. Conclusion: Our findings show no significant differences in access to healthcare between MSM and non-MSM. MSM were more likely to receive HIV- and STI-related preventive services than non-MSM. However, the low STI testing rate among MSM highlights the need for interventions to increase STI testing, and HIV and STI counselling for MSM.

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