A Bridge Across Our Fears

Lung cancer: our blood, sweat and fears.

Bridge Jobs: A Comparison across Cohorts (Revised)

Are today’s younger retirees following in the footsteps of their older peers with respect to gradual retirement? Recent evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) suggests that the majority of older Americans with full-time career jobs late in life moved to another job prior to complete labor force withdrawal. This paper explores the retirement patterns of a new and younger cohort of i...

Building the bridge across the quality chasm.

Over the last four decades there has been an increasing emphasis on quality in health care. According to a series of recent US reports, however, there is no longer just a gap between what this quality is and what it could be, but a widening chasm (1). Crossing that chasm will be no simple task. It requires us to confront competing values that are at the heart of the major debates in public heal...

Clusters: a bridge across the disciplines of physics and chemistry.

Clusters in Physics The properties of elements from atoms to bulk can be divided into two regimes: (i) a scalable regime where properties vary smoothly as some power law until they reach the bulk limit and (ii) a nonscalable regime where the variation is highly nonmonotonic (1). In this latter region, characterized by clusters, unusual things can and often do arise because of quantum confinemen...

A Model of Bridge Choice Across the Mississippi River

5 On September 18th 2008, a replacement for the previously collapsed I-35W bridge opened 6 to the public. Consequently, travelers were once again confronted with the opportunity to find 7 better alternatives. The traffic pattern of the Minneapolis road network was likely to read8 just, because of the new link addition. However, questions arise about the possible reasons (or 9 components in the ...