ABOUT THIS POLICY: Prestige Health Choice has developed clinical policies to assist with making coverage determinations. Prestige Health Choice’s clinical policies are based on guidelines from established industry sources, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state regulatory agencies, the American Medical Association (AMA), medical specialty professional societies, and p...

ABOUT THIS POLICY: Prestige Health Choice has developed clinical policies to assist with making coverage determinations. Prestige Health Choice’s clinical policies are based on guidelines from established industry sources, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state regulatory agencies, the American Medical Association (AMA), medical specialty professional societies, and p...

The content of this paper is based solely on the original study reported in Abe and Watanabe (2012a) in which the authors develop a structured and innovative theory of optimal resource allocation and prestige maximization for an institution of higher education. Although the study provides a sound diagnostic framework and unambiguous results, the paper requires relatively advanced knowledge of m...

A key platform of anti-bilingual education rhetoric is the apparently ineluctable link between majority, or dominant languages and subsequent social mobility. Many critics of bilingual education argue, quite convincingly it seems, that the ongoing promotion of a minority language – that is, a language with less power and prestige in a given (national) context – is actively detrimental to the mo...

The aim of this study was to examine a psychosocial model of predicting perceived social status among faculty members. To this end, 135 faculty members in one of the state universities in Tehran, Iran, were recruited through convenient sampling. We used Perceived Organizational Support Scale (POSS), Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS), Participation in Organizational Decisions M...

ABOUT THIS POLICY: Prestige Health Choice has developed clinical policies to assist with making coverage determinations. Prestige Health Choice’s clinical policies are based on guidelines from established industry sources, such as the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS), state regulatory agencies, the American Medical Association (AMA), medical specialty professional societies, and pe...

The shipwreckage of the oil tanker Prestige and Erika occurred respectively on November the 19 2002 off the coast of Galice in Spain and on December the 12 1999 in the Golf of Gascogne. Both led to large oil spills that contaminated hundreds of kilometres coast: more than 10 000 tons of fuel oil n°6 were released in the Atlantic Ocean in the south of Finistère as a consequence of the Erika and ...

Across four studies, the current paper demonstrates that smiles are associated with lower social status. Moreover, the association between smiles and lower status appears in the psychology of observers and generalizes across two forms of status: prestige and dominance. In the first study, faces of fashion models representing less prestigious apparel brands were found to be more similar to a can...