378 research outputs found
For it's Hi! Hi! Hee! in the Field Artillery [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceDedicated to the U.S. Field Artilleryads on inside bottom margins and on back cover for Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. stock, and on front cover for War BondsJohns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
189, Item 053aby Brig. Gen. Edmund L. Gruber. The author acknowledges with thanks the contributions of Robert M. Danford and William Bryden to the words.George Montgomery, Maureen O'Hara, and John Sutton in Ten Gentlemen From West Point. With Laird Cregar, John Shepperd, Victor Francen. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Produced by William Perlberg.unattrib. photo of Montgomery, O'Hara, Sutton, and other members of cas
For it's Hi! Hi! Hee! in the Field Artillery [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceDedicated to the U.S. Field Artilleryads on inside bottom margins and on back cover for Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. stock, and on front cover for War BondsJohns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
189, Item 053aby Brig. Gen. Edmund L. Gruber. The author acknowledges with thanks the contributions of Robert M. Danford and William Bryden to the words.George Montgomery, Maureen O'Hara, and John Sutton in Ten Gentlemen From West Point. With Laird Cregar, John Shepperd, Victor Francen. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Produced by William Perlberg.unattrib. photo of Montgomery, O'Hara, Sutton, and other members of cas
Geometry of numbers
No full textThis volume contains a fairly complete picture of the geometry of numbers, including relations to other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, diophantine approximation, coding and numerical analysis. It deals with convex or non-convex bodies and lattices in euclidean space, etc.This second edition was prepared jointly by P.M. Gruber and the author of the first edition. The authors have retained the existing text (with minor corrections) while adding to each chapter supplementary sections on the more recent developments. While this method may have drawbacks, it has the defini
Frontiers in Psychology / Women Who Emerge as Leaders in Temporarily Assigned Work Groups : Attractive and Socially Competent but Not Babyfaced or Naïve?
No full textThe underrepresentation of women in top positions has been in the spotlight of research for decades. Prejudice toward female leaders, which decreases women’s chances of emerging as leaders, has been discussed as a potential reason. Aiming to investigate the underlying mechanisms of this prejudice, we focused on the question of how facial characteristics might influence women’s leadership emergence. Because other research has related ascribed social competence and ascribed naïveté to attractiveness and babyfacedness, respectively, we hypothesized that ascribed social competence would mediate the impact of ascribed attractiveness on leadership emergence and that ascribed naïveté would mediate the impact of ascribed babyfacedness on leadership emergence. In a pilot study, we analyzed data from 101 participants of a women’s leadership contest held in 2015 in Germany. We then confirmed these results in a methodologically improved main study on other women who participated in the contest in one of two other years: 2016 and 2017 (N = 195). Women applied to participate in the contest by recording their answers to several questions in a video interview. In the contest, they were assigned to teams of about ten women each and worked on several assessment-center-like tasks. After each task, each member of each team nominated the three women they believed showed the best leadership potential in their group. We operationalized women’s leadership emergence as the number of nominations received. We measured participants’ facial attractiveness, babyfacedness, social competence, and naïveté by having raters follow a specifically developed rating manual to rate the answers the women gave in the video interviews. In both studies, the results indicated that women with higher ascribed facial attractiveness had higher ascribed social competence, which significantly predicted leadership emergence in the contest. Likewise, women with higher ascribed babyfacedness had higher ascribed naïveté, which significantly, albeit only slightly, negatively predicted leadership emergence. We discuss the implications of the results for personnel selection
The AQUAS ECSEL Project Aggregated Quality Assurance for Systems: Co-Engineering Inside and Across the Product Life Cycle
No full textThere is an ever-increasing complexity of the systems we engineer in modern society, which includes facing the convergence of the embedded world and the open world. This complexity creates increasing difficulty with providing assurance for factors including safety, security and performance. In such a context, the AQUAS project investigates the challenges arising from e.g., the inter-dependence of safety, security and performance of systems and aims at efficient solutions for the entire product life-cycle. The project builds on knowledge of partners gained in current or former EU projects and will demonstrate the newly developed methods and techniques for co-engineering across use cases spanning Aerospace, Medicine, Transport and Industrial Control. © 2019 The Author
Physician Financial Incentives and Cesarean Delivery: New Conclusions from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
No full textThis paper replicates Gruber, Kim, and Mayzlin’s (1999) analysis of the effect of physician financial incentives on cesarean delivery rates, using their data, sample selection criteria, and specification. Coincident trends explain much of their estimated positive relation between fees and cesarean utilization, which also falls somewhat upon the inclusion of several childbirth observations that had been inadvertently excluded from their estimation sample. The data ultimately indicate that a $1000 increase, in current dollars, in the reimbursement for a cesarean section increases cesarean delivery rates by about one percentage point, one-quarter of the effect estimated originally.
The impact of market forces and public health insurance on inpatient care
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-100).This dissertation considers both private and public-sector influences on inpatient care, focusing first on the impact of strategic hospital behavior on entry into new procedure markets, and second on the effect of changes in Medicaid and Medicare on hospital care. Chapter 1, "Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-by-Doing," investigates whether incumbent hospitals threatened by entry in profitable procedure markets take advantage of learning-by-doing in these markets to erect barriers to entry. By focusing on incumbent behavior following a positive shock to the profitability of a procedure, and comparing this behavior across markets with different levels of entry-deterrence incentives, I am able to detect limited evidence consistent with entry deterrence through learning-by-doing in three case studies: electrophysiological studies, liver transplants, and prostatectomy. Chapter 2, "Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations," addresses the relationship between health insurance availability and the nature and frequency of hospitalization. Together with co-author Jonathan Gruber, I find that the Medicaid expansions from 1983 to 1996 were associated with a 22% decline in "avoidable hospitalizations," hospitalizations that can potentially be averted by timely outpatient care. However, the increased insurance coverage had a larger, offsetting impact on other types of hospitalizations, yielding a 10% overall increase in child hospitalizations.(cont.) The effects on intensity of care once in the hospital are ambiguous, but the data show that more children were treated in for-profit facilities, and fewer in public institutions as a result of the expansions in Medicaid. Chapter 3, "Hospital Responses to Changes in Average Reimbursement Rates: An Assessment of a Natural Experiment," explores the effect of increased reimbursement to hospitals on billing practices (specifically, "upcoding") and intensity of care. Because the hospital industry is highly-regulated and predominantly not-for-profit, standard theories of firm behavior may not apply to hospitals, yielding ambiguous a priori predictions of hospital responses to reimbursement changes. My empirical analysis suggests that large increases in reimbursement for particular diagnoses were not met with increased spending on care for patients in those diagnoses. If upheld in future research, this finding has important implications for providers of health insurance, both public and private. Accounting for one-third of health expenditures, and over 4 percent of GDP overall, the hospital sector is critical both to healthcare and to the economy at large. Understanding hospital behavior will require additional investigation of competitive practices as well as public interventions.by Leemore Sharon Dafny.Ph.D
Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium
No full textThe present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we illustrate the budgetary impact that the reforms considered might have on the budget of the federal government.
Exploring the Origins of Organizational Paths: Empirical Evidence from Newly Founded Firms
No full textThe notion of path dependence in organizational processes has intrigued scholars for several decades. Yet, while extant studies provide rich insights on the factors that cause persistence in organizational paths, research that explores the origins of organizational paths remains scant. Analyzing data collected from 446 firm founders, the author investigates the creation of product—market paths in new firms. The analysis reveals systematic relationships between key pre-entry human capital endowments of founders and the consideration of alternative solutions in path creation, thereby helping us to better explain, and predict, organizational path creation. Implications for the organizational and entrepreneurship literatures are discussed.ENT
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