Postcard: Advertisement for Family Hospital Insurance

This color printed postcard depicts an advertisement for health insurance. Printed text in blue and green are on the front of the postcard. There is a photographic image of doctors and nurses around an operating table. There is an area for the customer to put their information below the photo. The left side has a green hospital sign of the plus sign. The other side of the card has printed text in blue and green on the left side. There is a handwritten name and address on the right.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_postcards/1129/thumbnail.jp

The California Resale Royalty Act and the Fifth Amendment: Why the Act Survives Takings Challenges

The California Resale Royalty Act, which provides fine artists with a 5% inalienable royalty on future sales of their work, has been challenged on several legal grounds, including due process, freedom of contract and preemption. While these challenges have failed, it has also been suggested that the act amounts to a physical taking under the Fifth Amendment. While the act has yet to be challenged as such, the argument has been made that such a challenge would prevail. The question of whether or not the act is a taking is important because of the current expansion of similar statutes around the world, particularly in Europe and involves the question of whether or not the United States will follow with a similar federal statute. The argument that the California Resale Royalty Act amounts to a taking has been used in arguments against the adoption of a similar federal statute in the United States. Whether the United States adopts a similar federal statute may have significant impact on the sale of art in the global economy. This article helps present analysis of takings law in the context of a fairly unique statute and contributes to the debate about artists' rights in the United States by making the case that as far as the Fifth Amendment is concerned, the United States would be constitutionally permitted to adopt a federal statute similar to the California Resale Royalty Act. The article explores and rebuts the position that the California statute is a physical taking by illustrating through the use of precedent and analysis of the arguments that the proper analysis is a regulatory takings analysis and not a physical takings analysis. Under a regulatory takings analysis, the article demonstrates that the statute is not a taking under the Fifth Amendment. The article also raises the possibility that the courts may not hear a takings argument because of particular case law.</p

Exploiting linked data to create rich human digital memories

Memories are an important aspect of a person's life and experiences. The area of human digital memories focuses on encapsulating this phenomenon, in a digital format, over a lifetime. Through the proliferation of ubiquitous devices, both people and the surrounding environment are generating a phenomenal amount of data. With all of this disjointed information available, successfully searching it and bringing it together, to form a human digital memory, is a challenge. This is especially true when a lifetime of data is being examined. Linked Data provides an ideal, and novel, solution for overcoming this challenge, where a variety of data sources can be drawn upon to capture detailed information surrounding a given event. Memories, created in this way, contain vivid structures and varied data sources, which emerge through the semantic clustering of content and other memories. This paper presents DigMem, a platform for creating human digital memories, based on device-specific services and the user's current environment. In this way, information is semantically structured to create temporal "memory boxes" for human experiences. A working prototype has been successfully developed, which demonstrates the approach. In order to evaluate the applicability of the system a number of experiments have been undertaken. These have been successful in creating human digital memories and illustrating how a user can be monitored in both indoor and outdoor environments. Furthermore, the user's heartbeat information is analysed to determine his or her heart rate. This has been achieved with the development of a QRS Complex detection algorithm and heart rate calculation method. These methods process collected electrocardiography (ECG) information to discern the heart rate of the user

The effects of healthy aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease on recollection, familiarity and false recognition, estimated by an associative process-dissociation recognition procedure

Given the uneven experimental results in the literature regarding whether or not familiarity declines with healthy aging and cognitive impairment, we compare four samples (healthy young people, healthy older people, older people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment - aMCI -, and older people with Alzheimer's disease - AD -) on an associative recognition task, which, following the logic of the process-dissociation procedure, allowed us to obtain corrected estimates of recollection, familiarity and false recognition. The results show that familiarity does not decline with healthy aging, but it does with cognitive impairment, whereas false recognition increases with healthy aging, but declines significantly with cognitive impairment. These results support the idea that the deficits detected in recollection, familiarity, or false recognition in older people could be used as early prodromal markers of cognitive impairment

Federal Policy Platforms and Public Health: Reinforcing the Benefits of Air Pollution Control Devices at Power Plants in the United States.

Recent federal policy platforms have been proposed that include substantial changes to environmental regulation at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For instance, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (“Project 2025”) has a number of proposals to change the Clean Air Act (CAA); and the America First Agenda has proposals to “modernize” the CAA. If implemented, these measures may sharply reduce the future public health benefits of the CAA. These include possible harms from ceasing operation of air pollution control devices (APCDs) at power plants, which have been a bedrock of national-scale air pollution reductions for decades

The first three-dimensional visualization of a thrombus in transit trapped between the leads of a permanent dual-chamber pacemaker: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Two-dimensional echocardiography is a useful tool in diagnosing cardiac masses. However, the three-dimensional offline reconstruction technique of transesophageal echocardiography might be superior to two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in providing additional information of structural details.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>We report the case of a 76-year-old Caucasian man with a permanent dual-chamber pacemaker and a worm-like right-heart thrombus in transit. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography showed that it was debatable as to whether "the worm" was originating from the leads. Offline three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography reconstruction technique proved superior in identifying the cardiac mass as a thrombus trapped between the leads of the pacemaker. The thrombus was successfully dissolved by systemic heparin therapy.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography is useful and effective in patients with implanted pacemakers or defibrillators when other closely competing imaging modalities are contraindicated, such as magnetic resonance imaging. In patients with pacemakers and trapped thrombus in transit for whom surgical therapy might be a high risk, medical therapy seems to offer a safer and convincing alternative. Whether the management of right-heart thrombi has to be modified due to the presence of pacemaker leads is controversial.</p

No dual-task practice effect in Alzheimer's disease

Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) requires evidence of progressive decline in cognitive function. However, many tests used to assess cognitive function suffer from considerable practice effects, reducing their reliability. Several studies have reported that the ability to do two things at once, or dual tasking, is impaired in AD, but unaffected by healthy ageing. The apparent specificity of this impairment suggests that this assessment may be particularly useful in the early diagnosis of AD, but the reliability of this assessment remains unknown. Therefore, this study investigated simultaneous performance of digit recall and tracking tasks across six testing sessions in eight people with AD, eight healthy older adults and eight healthy younger adults. The results found that dual-task performance was unaffected by healthy ageing, but significantly impaired in AD, with no effect of repeated exposure. The absence of any improvements in performance despite increased familiarity with the task’s demands suggests that not only is the dualtask assessment well suited for monitoring progression over time, but also that dual tasking involves a specific cognitive function which is impaired in the AD brain

Motor skill learning in the middle-aged: limited development of motor chunks and explicit sequence knowledge

The present study examined whether middle-aged participants, like young adults, learn movement patterns by preparing and executing integrated sequence representations (i.e., motor chunks) that eliminate the need for external guidance of individual movements. Twenty-four middle-aged participants (aged 55–62) practiced two fixed key press sequences, one including three and one including six key presses in the discrete sequence production task. Their performance was compared with that of 24 young adults (aged 18–28). In the middle-aged participants motor chunks as well as explicit sequence knowledge appeared to be less developed than in the young adults. This held especially with respect to the unstructured 6-key sequences in which most middle-aged did not develop independence of the key-specific stimuli and learning seems to have been based on associative learning. These results are in line with the notion that sequence learning involves several mechanisms and that aging affects the relative contribution of these mechanisms