Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) experience a large burden from certain chronic disease-related risk factors. The STRIVE Program funded four AANHPI community-based organizations (CBOs) to implement culturally adapted community gardens and farmers' markets to increase access to healthy foods. Key CBO informant interviews were conducted to understand processes an...

The controversy over dynamic scoring in the United States is not new. 1 But the possibility that dynamic scoring might be adopted has moved closer to reality recently, with initial attempts by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) shedding light on what the process would entail. Thus, it is an appropriate time to review the issues. Working together, CBO...

BACKGROUND Postpartum weight retention (PPWR) causes intergenerational harm, negatively affecting a mother's cardiovascular health and ability to have future healthy pregnancies. Low-income minority women are at highest risk for PPWR with little guidance concerning timeline or strategy to lose weight after delivery. An academic-community partnership conducted observational and focus group work ...

Notes All years referred to in this study are calendar years. All dollar amounts are expressed in current dollars. Preface Dr iven by rising health care costs and an aging population, federal spending on the Medicare program will exert substantial pressures on the federal budget over the coming decades. Policymakers have considered a number of strategies for restraining Medicare spending. One a...

Few diseases have aroused more emotional attention in the press and the public than Lyme disease. Discussions have not only focused on the increasing incidence 1 or the choice of appropriate treatment, but also on perceived inadequacy of serological testing and whether or not persisting fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and musculoskeletal pain are 'real disease' and related to persistent infectio...

A Monte Carlo approach using Markov Chains for random generation of concepts of a finite context is proposed. An algorithm similar to CbO is used. We discuss three Markov chains: non-monotonic, monotonic, and coupling ones. The coupling algorithm terminates with probability 1. These algorithms can be used for solving various information retrieval tasks in large datasets.

BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men (MSM) are more likely to be living with HIV than other adult men in low- and middle-income countries. MSM experience barriers to accessing HIV services including a lack of available specialized care, and community-level stigma and discrimination. This study aims to examine the uptake of HIV services at non-governmental and community-based organizations (NGOs...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Blood oxygenation level dependent contrast functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-fMRI) has been applied to functional mapping in brain disorders, based on the assumption that normal adults and patients with brain disorders exhibit similar evoked cerebral blood oxygenation (CBO) changes. This study compared evoked CBO changes measured by near infrared spectroscopy (N...