Will the Recovery Continue? Four Fragile Markets, Four Years Later

RoboCupJunior - Four Years Later

In this paper, we report on the status of the RoboCupJunior league, four years after it was founded. Since its inception in 2000, we have been surveying and/or interviewing students and mentors who participate in the international event. Here we present a high-level overview of this data. We discuss demographics of participants, characteristics of preparation and educational value. We highlight...

Surgical Care Improvement Project: four years later, what's the status?

Coinsurance and the demand for physician services: four years later.

In 1971 a study was made of the effects of a 25-percent coinsurance provision on the demand for physician services under a comprehensive prepaid plan for medical care. Comparing physician utilization rates in 1966 (the year before coinsurance was introduced) and 1968 (the first calendar year after the change) showed that coinsurance led to a 24-percent decline in the per capita number of all ph...

Perceiving a Presidency in Black (and White): Four Years Later

When Barack Obama became the “first Black President” of the United States in 2008, researchers examined how his election impacted Americans’ views of racial progress. When he was reelected in 2012, the minority status of the president had become less novel. In the present study, we investigated whether perceptions concerning racial progress varied: (1) before and after President Obama’s reelect...

The next 30 years--will the progress continue?

Spectacular progress has occurred in cardiology during the past 30 years. The major advances that have resulted in the better methods of diagnosis and treatment of patients stem from basic research that was often unrelated to the ultimate practical application. An excellent example of this process is the evolution of the concept of ,B blockade from the pharmacology laboratory to practical clini...