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The economics of long-term care in Ohio
Get PDFIn 1990, the State of Ohio spent more than $1 billion to finance long-term care services to older Ohioans, and as a result, the Medicaid budget is seen as perhaps the greatest challenge facing state policy makers. But Ohio's public expenditures tell only part of the story and must be seen in a context that includes expenditures by other government programs, private insurers, older people and their families, and charitable organizations. The full picture also includes the economic value of uncompensated care provided by the family and friends of disabled elders and the loss of income that results when caregivers must reduce employment. This report estimates the number of older Ohioans receiving long-term care, the economic value of that care, and sources of economic support for that care
PASSPORT assessment and services
Get PDFThis report examines the PASSPORT assessment and services processes through thirty case studies: ten new assessments; ten ongoing consumers; and ten disenrolled consumers. We used a combination of observation; interviews with consumers, family caregivers, assessors, and case managers; consumer records review; and one focus group of PASSPORT Administrative site directors or their designees. We evaluated the accuracy and comprehensiveness of assessments; the appropriateness of service plans; and the extent to which consumers and their family members made informed decisions about their care and services
Interface-based Programming Assignments and Automatic Grading of Java Programs
Get PDFAutoGrader is a framework developed at Miami University for the automatic grading of student programming assignments written in the Java programming language. AutoGrader leverages the abstract concept of interfaces, brought out by the Java interface language construct, in both the assignment and grading of programming assignments. The use of interfaces reinforces the role of procedural abstraction in ob ject-oriented programming and allows for a common API to all student code. This common API then enables automatic grading of program functionality. AutoGrader provides a simple instructor API and enables the automatic testing of student code through the Java language features of interfaces and reflection1 . AutoGrader also supports static code analysis using PMD [4] to detect possible bugs, dead code, suboptimal, and overcomplicated code. While AutoGrader is written in and only handles Java programs, this style of automated grading is adaptable to any language that supports (or can mimic) named interfaces and/or abstract functions and that also supports runtime reflection
Writing the Urals: Permanence and Ephemerality in Ol'ga Slavnikova’s 2017
Get PDFOl'ga Slavnikova’s novel 2017 (Vagrius, 2006) made her the second
woman to win Russia’s coveted Booker Prize, garnering conflicting critical
responses in the process. Many hurried to label the narrative a dystopia:
2017’s last hundred pages depict the centenary of the November ‘revolution’,
chronicling how crowds commemorate
the event by dressing up as
Reds
or Whites and slaughtering their
enemies
(Chantsev 287; Eliseeva 14).
Other critics, and Slavnikova herself,
see dystopia as only one strand in
the work (Slavnikova
‘Mne ne terpitsia’,
18; Basinskii 13)
