Wisconsin: Round 1 - State Level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network -- with 36 states and 61 researchers -- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, the Brookings Institution, and the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.The drive to enroll consumers in private health insurance coverage has fostered new alignment among consumer advocates, insurance agents and brokers, community-based organizations, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and the health care and insurance sectors. The unique policy position on Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin brings collaboration between those who support the ACA and those who may not support the ACA, but recognize that the governor's entitlement reform plan depends on effective outreach and enrollment into the federally facilitated marketplace. The limited federal funding available for outreach and enrollment has also required public/private partnerships and unlikely alliances. Wisconsin's decision against full Medicaid expansion and instead to cover all adults up to 100 percent of the FPL, but remove adults above that level, provides a boost for the commercial insurance sector. Nearly 80,000 adults will transfer from Medicaid to marketplace coverage and be sent to purchase subsidized coverage on the exchange

Pulling adsorbed polymers from surfaces with the AFM: stick versus slip, peeling versus gliding

We consider the response of an adsorbed polymer that is pulled by an AFM within a simple geometric framework. We separately consider the cases of i) fixed polymer-surface contact point, ii) sticky case where the polymer is peeled off from the substrate, and iii) slippery case where the polymer glides over the surface. The resultant behavior depends on the value of the surface friction coefficient and the adsorption strength. Our resultant force profiles in principle allow to extract both from non-equilibrium force-spectroscopic data.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in Europhys. Lett., http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/index.cfm?edpsname=ep

State v. Pinder, 375 So. 2d 836 (Fla. 1979)

Criminal Law-DOUBLE JEOPARDY-AN EXAMINATION OF SENTENCING IN FLORIDA FOR THE UNDERLYING FELONY IN A FELONY MURDER CASE AFTER Whalen v. United State

OSM ticket to ride

Board games such as Ticket to Ride by Days of Wonder use game boards which are based on real geographic data. In this particular example the game map is an abstract railway graph consisting of a set of train stations, that are connected by train routes. Generating such maps by hand is a long and time consuming process. Therefore we present an algorithm that can generate playable maps for the game Ticket to Ride for different countries and continents. The result of this work is an application which is able to automatically create a game graph using OpenStreetMap data as input. We try to keep the generated graph as similar as possible to the original game in terms of important metrics that affect the gameplay, while trying to keep the result close to the geographic data during the abstraction process. The result is exported into a format that can be imported by an open source web version of Ticket to Ride, which allows players to play on the generated map.Brettspiele wie Zug um Zug von Days of Wonder verwenden Spielbretter, die auf echten geografischen Daten basieren. In diesem Beispiel besteht der Spielplan aus einem abstrakten Eisenbahngraphen, der eine Menge von Bahnhöfen enthält, die durch Zugstrecken verbunden sind. Das Erstellen solcher Karten per Hand ist ein langwieriger und zeitaufwändiger Prozess. Daher stellen wir einen Algorithmus vor, der spielbare Karten für das Brettspiel Zug um Zug für verschiedene Länder und Kontinente generieren kann. Das Ergebnis dieser Arbeit ist eine Anwendung, die in der Lage ist, basierend auf OpenStreetMap-Daten automatisiert einen Spielgraphen zu erstellen. Wir versuchen den generierten Graphen in Bezug auf wichtige Metriken, die sich auf die Spielweise auswirken, so ähnlich wie möglich zum Originalspiel zu halten, gleichzeitig aber während des Abstraktionsprozesses nahe an den geografischen Daten zu bleiben. Das Ergebnis wird in ein Format exportiert, das von einer Open-Source-Webversion von Zug um Zug importiert werden kann, wodurch Spieler auf der generierten Karte spielen können

Development of a New Uniform File Format for Neuroscience Data Across the Globe

With about 1011 neurons and about 1015 synaptic connections the human brain is among the most complex biologic systems ever observed (Rautenberg, Sobolev et al. 2011). Technical progress is driving the volume of data collection to unknown heights. Unsurprisingly neuroscience is rapidly increasing its already extreme volumes of collected data (Schwarz, Lebedev et al. 2014). At the same time the discipline is lagging behind with tools and concepts needed to fully exploit the information contained in the overwhelming amount of data. Scientific progress depends more and more on collaboration, which in turn requires data sharing (Teeters, Godfrey et al., 2015). Neurophysiologic experiments are complex and diverse and the data are recorded in a multitude of different data formats. This lack of compatibility poses a major obstacle to efficient data sharing and collaboration (Breaking Down the Data Barriers in Neuroscience 2014). Neurodata without Borders (NWB) is a new initiative, which aims at overcoming these limitations by creating a new common file format, the NWB format, to facilitate data sharing across the individual labs. The objective of this thesis is to investigate how well this newly created file format is suited to become the new common standard within the research community of cell-based neurophysiology. To address this question we studied how well the NWB file format encodes the diversity of existing data in this field. Four carefully selected datasets served as model cases for the development and testing of the new file format. We investigated how diverse these datasets are and how well they represent the different data categories that the workgroup defined as essential for the field of cell-based neurophysiology. Furthermore, we determined the degree of standardization that the new file format achieves by studying the amount of empty fields and special custom fields needed to map the four datasets onto the NWB format. To further benchmark the NWB format we compared to existing file formats and studied if and how NWB overcomes the limitation of the other formats. Finally, we developed a metric to evaluate how well the NWB format fulfills the requirements for the new common file format, which were defined by the NWB workgroup. We hypothesize that the NWB format is suited to become the common file standard within the community of cell-based neurophysiology. The results of this study demonstrate how much the NWB file format has already achieved. However, due to the small size of test datasets and the resulting lack of diversity we reject our hypotheses at this point in time. More results are required to get clarity about the true potential of the NWB format and time will show if it will rise to become the universal data standard in the field of cell-based electrophysiology

Zur Bedeutung der Volkshochschule bei der Aneignung von Basisbildung im Erwachsenenalter

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Elektromanipulation einzelner Polyelektrolytmoleküle

Grundlegend für die Entwicklung molekularer Werkzeuge ist es, Kontrolle über das Verhalten einzelner Moleküle zu erlangen. Ein Beispiel dafür ist das gezieltes An- und Abkoppeln ein-zelner Moleküle an Oberflächen, das eine Basis für eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen bietet. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde unter Verwendung der AFM- Einzelmolekülkraftspektroskopie untersucht, wie und unter welchen Umständen einzelne Polyelektrolytmoleküle an funkti-onalisierte oder unfunktionalisierte Oberflächen binden und es wurden Ansätze entwickelt, wie dieses Bindungsverhalten beeinflusst werden kann: ∑ Abhängig von den experimentellen Rahmenbedingungen und der Dissoziationskonstante der untersuchten Bindungen, kann die angelegte Kraftrate einen Einfluß auf die gemessene Abrisskraft haben. Ist dies der Fall, muss eine differenzierte Analyse der gemessenen Daten erfolgen. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden neue Ansätze entwickelt, die eine effiziente und aussagekräftige Datenanalyse über das gesamte Spektrum an messbaren Wechselwirkungen ermöglichen. ∑ Aufgrund ihrer vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeit ist die Polyelektrolytadsorption an feste Substrate im Blickpunkt des Interesses, sowohl im akademischen als auch im industriellen Bereich. Bei der Adsorption von Polyelektrolytmolekülen an Oberflächen sind viele verschiedene Arten von nichtkovalenten Wechselwirkungen beteiligt. Auf der Basis von kraftspektroskopischen Untersuchungen auf unterschiedlichen Substraten wurden erstmals Ansätze entwickelt, die es erlauben, verschiedenste Arten von Wechselwirkungen zu identifizieren und zu charakterisieren. ∑ Extern angelegte elektrische Felder bieten eine Möglichkeit, direkt auf einzelne geladene Moleküle Einfluss zu nehmen. Um dieses Konzept zu realisieren, wurde ein ent-sprechender Aufbau entwickelt, der eine Kombination von Elektrochemie und Kraft-spektroskopie ermöglicht. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Bindungsstärke von Polyelektrolyten an leitfähige Substrate über anziehende Potenziale verstärkt und über abstoßende Potenziale erniedrigt werden kann. Beim Anschalten anziehender Potenziale konnten individuelle Polyelektrolytmoleküle auch über größere Entfernungen ein-gefangen werden. Mittels an- und abstoßender Spannungspulse konnte erstmals gezeigt werden, dass einzelne Polyelektrolytmoleküle wiederholt an- und abgekoppelt werden können

The Poisson Alignment Reference System Implementation at the Advanced Photon Source

The Poisson spot was established using a collimated laser beam from a 3-mW diode laser. It was monitored on a quadrant detector and found to be very sensitive to vibration and air disturbances. Therefore, for future work we strongly recommend a sealed vacuum tube in which the Poisson line may be propagated. A digital single-axis feedback system was employed to generate an straight line reference (SLR) on the X axis. Pointing accuracy was better than 8 {+-} 2 microns at a distance of 5 m. The digital system was found to be quite slow with a maximum bandwidth of 47 {+-} 9 Hz. Slow drifts were easily corrected but any vibration over 5 Hz was not. We recommend an analog proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for high bandwidth and smooth operation of the kinematic mirror. Although the Poisson alignment system (PAS) at the Advanced Photon Source is still in its infancy, it already shows great promise as a possible alignment system for the low-energy undulator test line (LEUTL). Since components such as wigglers and quadruples will initially be aligned with respect to each other using conventional means and mounted on some kind of rigid rail, the goal would be to align six to ten such rails over a distance of about 30 m. The PAS could be used to align these rails by mounting a sphere at the joint between two rails. These spheres would need to be in a vacuum pipe to eliminate the refractive effects of air. Each sphere would not be attached to either rail but instead to a flange connecting the vacuum pipes of each rail. Thus the whole line would be made up of straight, rigid segments that could be aligned by moving the joints. Each sphere would have its own detector, allowing the operators to actively monitor the position of each joint and therefore the overall alignment of the system