Patterns of psychological test usage in the United States: 1935-1969.

1971 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Robert R. Wallis ◽  
Carlton Paine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Test ◽  
Test Usage

Patterns of psychological test usage in the United States: 1935-1982.

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Reed M. Larsen ◽  
Joseph D. Matarazzo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Test ◽  
Test Usage

Objective Psychological Measurement and Alcoholism: Review of Literature, 1971–72

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1023-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma J. Knox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Test Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
Psychological Test ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Psychological Measurement

The literature published in 1971 and 1972 on alcoholics in the United States was reviewed for objective psychological test data or behavioral measurements. The review was organized to facilitate further research by assembling information according to problem area and by including tests employed, significant findings ( p = .05), critical comments, and inferences for therapy. An appendix of references from 1968–1970 employing objective psychological measurements is included and cross-indexed.

Objective Psychological Measurement and Alcoholism: Survey of the Literature 1974

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Wilma J. Knox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Test Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Test ◽  
Psychological Measurement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Treatment Orientation ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Conclusion Section

This survey is the third in a series examining objective psychological test data or behavioral measurements on alcoholics published in the United States during a specific year. The 131 articles published in 1974 are divided into two broad categories, treatment orientation and behavior and attitudes of alcoholics. Findings are further divided into subcategories, briefly described, and cross indexed. The resume and conclusion section includes references to current findings.

Objective Psychological Measurement and Alcoholism: Survey of the Literature 1973

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma J. Knox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Test Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
Psychological Test ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Psychological Measurement ◽  
Review Articles

The literature published during 1973 on alcoholics in the United States was examined for objective psychological test data or behavioral measurements. Information was grouped according to problem area and included tests employed, significant findings, critical comments, and inferences for therapy and research. Review articles of 1973 are listed in an appendix.

scholarly journals Tuberculosis Test Usage and Medical Expenditures from Outpatient Insurance Claims Data, 2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame Owusu-Edusei ◽  
Carla A. Winston ◽  
Suzanne M. Marks ◽  
Adam J. Langer ◽  
Roque Miramontes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Claims Data ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Patient Characteristics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Expenditures ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Insurance Claims ◽  
Insurance Claims Data ◽  
Test Usage

Objective. To evaluate TB test usage and associated direct medical expenditures from 2013 private insurance claims data in the United States (US). Methods. We extracted outpatient claims for TB-specific and nonspecific tests from the 2013 MarketScan® commercial database. We estimated average expenditures (adjusted for claim and patient characteristics) using semilog regression analyses and compared them to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) national reimbursement limits. Results. Among the TB-specific tests, 1.4% of the enrollees had at least one claim, of which the tuberculin skin test was most common (86%) and least expensive ($9). The T-SPOT® was the most expensive among the TB-specific tests ($106). Among nonspecific TB tests, the chest radiograph was the most used test (78%), while chest computerized tomography was the most expensive ($251). Adjusted average expenditures for the majority of tests (≈74%) were above CMS limits. We estimated that total United States medical expenditures for the employer-based privately insured population for TB-specific tests were $53.0 million in 2013, of which enrollees paid 17% ($9 million). Conclusions. We found substantial differences in TB test usage and expenditures. Additionally, employer-based private insurers and enrollees paid more than CMS limits for most TB tests.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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