JAMA: The US House Committee on Appropriations has approved a draft 2016 budget forHealth andHumanServices that would terminate funding for AHRQ. That happened in 2012 and AHRQ survived. What’s your take onhowyou’re in the same place again, andwhatdoyou seeas theway forward? DRKRONICK: My job as director is to try to explainasclearlyas I can theworkwedoand the value of that work. The appropriat...

A novel optimization algorithm is presented, inspired by group hunting of animals such as lions, wolves, and dolphins. Although these hunters have differences in theway of hunting, they are common in that all of them look for a prey in a group. The hunters encircle the prey and gradually tighten the ring of siege until they catch the prey. In addition, eachmember of the group corrects its posit...

The loss of Arctic sea ice is predicted to open up the Northwest Passage, shortening shipping routes and facilitating the exchange of marine organisms between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Here, we present the first observations of distribution overlap of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the two oceans in the Northwest Passage, demonstrating this route is already connecting whale...

Understanding and, ultimately, controlling the properties of amorphous materials is one of the key goals of material science. Among the different amorphous structures, a very important role is played by colloidal gels. It has been only recently understood that colloidal gels are the result of the interplay between phase separation and arrest. When short-ranged attractive colloids are quenched i...

T he actin cytoskeleton is the main driver of cell motility, an essential function of normal body tissues. However, the same processes are also at the heart of cancer cell metastasis and invasion. Understanding the normal regulation of actin-dependent cell motil-ity and how this is altered in cancer cells should leave us better equipped to tackle the disease. Laura Machesky's research is aimed ...

In late 2004, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine was awarded a 3-year grant expected to total approximately $400,000 by the National Library of Medicine to develop the Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL). FMDRL will provide an administrative and technical framework for the dissemination, review, revision, archiving, and maintenance of presentations, learning modules, quizz...

Aperiod of changes in what had previously been public health insurance began in Slovenia in 1992. A new legislation introduced amixedpublic-private insurance, the share ofGDPallocated for health care insurance inSlovenia equaled theEUaverage, and the financing of the public health insurance has been balanced up – until now. For the first time since Slovenia gained independence, the compulsory h...

Discriminating or classifying different terrains is an important ability for every autonomousmobile robot. A variety of sensors, preprocessing techniques, and algorithms in different robots were applied. However, little attentionwas paid to theway sensory datawas generated and to the contribution of different sensory modalities. In this work, a quadruped robot traversing different grounds using...