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What works? Maine's statewide uniform assessment and home care planning system tells all.

Maine’s state-funded home-based care (HBC) program succeeds in aligning resources with the care needs of consumers. Using trained nurse assessors who develop and authorize service plans, the Maine HBC program targets home care services to those most in need. A recent analysis of the program found that authorized service plan costs increased consistently and in a linear relationship with levels ...

The Path Tells a Story

Stories have been shared in every culture because they are a powerful means to entertain, educate, preserve traditions or instill values. In the history of storytelling technological evolution has changed the tools available to storytellers, from primarily oral representations that have been enriched with gestures and expressions to the sophisticated forms we enjoy today, such as film or comple...

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What the Neuron Tells Glia

Astrocytic processes at the synapse contribute to neurotransmission, but we understand little about their formation and differentiation. In this issue of Neuron, Yang et al. show that presynaptic input induces expression of the predominant glial transporter involved in glutamate clearance, and this induction involves the transcription factor kappa B-binding protein.

Pair programming productivity: Novice-novice vs. expert-expert

Agile Software Development methodologies have grown in popularity both among academic researchers and industrial practitioners. Among the various methodologies or practices proposed, pair programming, which is concerned with two programmers collaborating on design, coding and testing, has become a controversial focus of interest. Even though some success stories have been reported with the use ...