The research discussed in this volume stems, in part, from work on health literacy. Health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions” (nnlm.gov). When people hear the term health literacy, they may think of a patient’s ability to read medical information and ...

My immediate thought was that it was "morning sickness," a symptom of pregnancy. This seems impossible because I haven't been missing my period. If I did conceive, it could have happened only during last week. Wouldn't it be too early to tell? Also, are there pregnancy tests available at the Health Services in John Jay? If so, for what charge? Is it confidential? Do you recommend the store-boug...

2 Schedule (tentative) 2.1 Tuesday morning Brief introductions (1 min / person; you can prepare one slide, but free form is fine) Presentations I • Hinrich Schütze (introduction to working group, basically this document, 15+5) • Jay McClelland (45+15) • Maja Rudolph: Probabilistic modeling perspective (15+5) (Rudolph et al., 2016) • Rami Al-Rfou (and Marc Pickett?): Application perspective (15+...

Alexandre Blais, Jay Gambetta, A. Wallraff, D. I. Schuster, S. M. Girvin, M. H. Devoret, and R. J. Schoelkopf Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA Département de Physique et Regroupement Québécois sur les Matériaux de Pointe, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1 Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zürich, S...

In the editorial by Dr. A. Jay Block,' which appeared in the November 1993 issue of Chest, the author laments the disappearance of the ward laboratory and expresses some bewilderment over why this has occurred. In the inner-city hospital facing financial cuts in which I work, the motivation for its removal may have been financial, as tests performed in a ward laboratory are unreimbursed while t...

Jay D. Sau,1,* B. I. Halperin,2 K. Flensberg,3 and S. Das Sarma1 1Condensed Matter Theory Center and Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA 2Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 3Niels Bohr Institute and Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhag...

Chief Editors: Phillip Lieberman, MD, Stephen F. Kemp, MD, John Oppenheimer, MD, David M. Lang, MD, I. Leonard Bernstein, MD, and Richard A. Nicklas, MD Workgroup Contributors: John A. Anderson, MD, David I. Bernstein, MD, Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD, Jordan N. Fink, MD, Paul A. Greenberger, MD, Dennis K. Ledford, MD, James Li, MD, PhD, Albert L. Sheffer, MD, Roland Solensky, MD, and Bruce L. Wol...

My immediate thought was that it was "morning sickness," a symptom of pregnancy. This seems impossible because I haven't been missing my period. If I did conceive, it could have happened only during last week. Wouldn't it be too early to tell? Also, are there pregnancy tests available at the Health Services in John Jay? If so, for what charge? Is it confidential? Do you recommend the store-boug...