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Naturalization Trends in the United States

Nearly 22 million immigrants—about half of the overall immigrant population—were naturalized U.S. citizens in fiscal year 2017. In the same year, more than 707,000 immigrants became U.S. citizens. Naturalized citizens tend to have higher incomes and educational attainment compared to other immigrants, as this data-rich article explores.




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ADA Member Advantage ends two endorsements

ADA Member Advantage announced Jan. 8 the end of its endorsement relationship with two companies.




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ADA House rescinds The Dentist’s Prayer, amends recognition of religious diversity policy to be more inclusive

In an effort to advance the Association’s diversity and inclusion efforts, the ADA House of Delegates voted at its meeting in September to rescind the policy titled “The Dentist’s Prayer,” used by some state and local dental societies during their meetings, and amend its policy on recognition of religious diversity.




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CDC reminds clinicians to use standard precautions, recommends isolating patients with coronavirus symptoms

In light of the “emerging, rapidly evolving” outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reminding clinicians to use standard precautions consistently and advising they isolate patients who show signs and symptoms of the virus.




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DEA Call Center suspends phone operations

Springfield, Virginia — The Drug Enforcement Administration announced that effective March 23, the DEA Call Center has temporarily suspended phone operations due to COVID-19 pandemic.




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ADA Member Advantage ends Chase endorsement for credit card processing

ADA Member Advantage announced April 1 it ended its endorsement relationship with Chase for credit card processing.




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Northern California dentist heads to Uganda, ends up becoming a humanitarian

Traveling with purpose is what has led Nevada City, California-based general dentist Dr. Jean Creasey to a rural district in the southwestern region of Uganda over the past 15 years as a member of the Kellermann Foundation, treating and helping educate the villagers on the importance of good oral health as a way to a better future.




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Labor ends temporary nonenforcement of paid leave protections

The U.S. Department of Labor announced April 20 that it is ending the temporary period of non-enforcement of paid leave protections under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.




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Trends in Uninsured Rates Before and After Medicaid Expansion in Counties Within and Outside of the Diabetes Belt

OBJECTIVE

To examine trends in uninsured rates between 2012 and 2016 among low-income adults aged <65 years and to determine whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which expanded Medicaid, impacted insurance coverage in the Diabetes Belt, a region across 15 southern and eastern states in which residents have high rates of diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

Data for 3,129 U.S. counties, obtained from the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates and Area Health Resources Files, were used to analyze trends in uninsured rates among populations with a household income ≤138% of the federal poverty level. Multivariable analysis adjusted for the percentage of county populations aged 50–64 years, the percentage of women, Distressed Communities Index value, and rurality.

RESULTS

In 2012, 39% of the population in the Diabetes Belt and 34% in non-Belt counties were uninsured (P < 0.001). In 2016 in states where Medicaid was expanded, uninsured rates declined rapidly to 13% in Diabetes Belt counties and to 15% in non-Belt counties. Adjusting for county demographic and economic factors, Medicaid expansion helped reduce uninsured rates by 12.3% in Diabetes Belt counties and by 4.9% in non-Belt counties. In 2016, uninsured rates were 15% higher for both Diabetes Belt and non-Belt counties in the nonexpansion states than in the expansion states.

CONCLUSIONS

ACA-driven Medicaid expansion was more significantly associated with reduced uninsured rates in Diabetes Belt than in non-Belt counties. Initial disparities in uninsured rates between Diabetes Belt and non-Belt counties have not existed since 2014 among expansion states. Future studies should examine whether and how Medicaid expansion may have contributed to an increase in the use of health services in order to prevent and treat diabetes in the Diabetes Belt.




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How to Stop Waiting for ‘When Coronavirus Ends’

How many times have you thought, “When coronavirus ends, I will ______” — as if you’re putting off everything (or at least the things you most love) until then? They...




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[ Singles & Dating ] Open Question : WHAT TO DO, TO MAKE FRIENDS? I NEED ADVICE?




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Apologies Accepted? It Depends on the Offense

When freedom fighters in India inspired by Mahatma Gandhi turned violent in a clash with police in 1922, the nonviolent leader took personal responsibility, called off nationwide protests and starved himself for five days in a penitential fast. Gandhi was nearly alone in thinking an apology of such...




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Get Top Statistics on Immigrants in the U.S and Changing Immigration Trends; MPI Updates its Interactive Data Tools, Maps &amp; One-Stop Resource for Key Stats

WASHINGTON — The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today published the annual update to its data-rich article, Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States, offering readers a wealth of information that can help inform understanding about an issue that is the subject of much conversation.




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Send Daily Email Digests to Friends, Colleagues or Even to Yourself

When we announced our v13 update, we mentioned a new feature called Email Digests that we’ll explain further in this…




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Get Your Friends Into RSS With Inoreader’s New Invite Feature

Have you ever tried to convince somebody to start using an RSS reader, only to hear back from them something…





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Coronavirus Upends After-School World

With schools shut down, social distancing in place, and parents at home, after-school programs are laying off staff and switching gears to meet families' needs.




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No race balance, but desegregation ends for Georgia district




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Florida sheriff defends keeping childhood shooting a secret




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Coronavirus Upends After-School World

With schools shut down, social distancing in place, and parents at home, after-school programs are laying off staff and switching gears to meet families' needs.




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Maryland extends school closings through May 15 due to virus




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No race balance, but desegregation ends for Georgia district




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Florida sheriff defends keeping childhood shooting a secret




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Coronavirus Upends After-School World

With schools shut down, social distancing in place, and parents at home, after-school programs are laying off staff and switching gears to meet families' needs.




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Coronavirus Upends After-School World

With schools shut down, social distancing in place, and parents at home, after-school programs are laying off staff and switching gears to meet families' needs.




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No race balance, but desegregation ends for Georgia district




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Homecoming: Seven Legends of College Football Return to their Alma Maters | The Players' Tribune

Reconnecting with mentors, friends, coaches and professors, these football greats reflected on the experiences that they carried with them well beyond their college years. While they all share different stories, their journeys to the NFL were each met with adversity, and whether on or off the field, these obstacles served as tests for each individual athlete to overcome. These challenges made them stronger, earning them valuable lessons and helping them create special connections with the university they will always call ‘home.’




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Washington Supreme Court Ends Years-Long Funding Dispute

The supreme court put an end to five years of legal wrangling that landed the state's public school system with millions more dollars from the state and teachers with a pay raise.




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My Dear Friends.




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Recent Disciplinary Decisions and Trends.




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Recent Disciplinary Decisions and Trends.




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One Summer Between Friends / Trish Morey.

Australian author Trish Morey returns with a compelling and moving story about broken friendships and the rocky road of forgiveness. Coming home was never going to be easy ... With a failed marriage behind her, and her career dreams in tatters, Sarah returns home to Lord Howe Island to run the family store. Paradise to most, Lord Howe is the last place Sarah wants to be, trapped on an island with her two ex-best friends, Floss and Jules. Floss has the life she always wanted: married to her high school sweetheart, Andy, with five gorgeous children. But something is missing from her marriage. And now she has a secret that threatens to tear her happy family apart, and the only person she can talk to is the woman who pushed her away. For Jules, forgetting the past is impossible. Her four-year-old daughter is an everyday reminder of the friendships she has lost. But when a discovery turns her life upside down, she knows this is an opportunity to set things right. This summer, can these women overcome the pain of the past and find their way back to the friendship they once had?




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Sir Joseph Barcroft, family and friends.

[1924?]




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Florida sheriff defends keeping childhood shooting a secret




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Walz ends school year, but lets some businesses reopen




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West Virginia Teacher Strike Ends After Four Days, Governor Announces Pay Raise

Teachers will receive a 5 percent raise, pending a vote by the state legislature. School will resume Thursday.




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'Just Like Them': Urban and Rural Students Make Friends on the Alaska Frontier

A group of high school students from Anchorage spent spring break at a remote Native Village as part of an unusual cultural exchange program in Alaska. See what they learned.




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Alaska extends school closures, restrictions over virus




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A woman personifying friendship weeps before the bust of Giovanni Volpato. Engraving by P. Fontana, ca. 1807, after A. Canova.

[Rome?] : [publisher not identified], [1807?]




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Swimming upstream : trends and prospects in education for health / Margaret Whitehead.

London : King's Fund Institute, 1989.




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Sydney Wiese, recovering from coronavirus, continually talking with friends and family: 'Our world is uniting'

Hear how former Oregon State guard and current member of the WNBA's LA Sparks Sydney Wiese is recovering from a COVID-19 diagnosis, seeing friends and family show support and love during a trying time.




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Trends in biomedical research

9783030412197 (electronic bk.)




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Orchid biology : recent trends & challenges

9789813294561 (electronic bk.)




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Spatial modeling of trends in crime over time in Philadelphia

Cecilia Balocchi, Shane T. Jensen.

Source: The Annals of Applied Statistics, Volume 13, Number 4, 2235--2259.

Abstract:
Understanding the relationship between change in crime over time and the geography of urban areas is an important problem for urban planning. Accurate estimation of changing crime rates throughout a city would aid law enforcement as well as enable studies of the association between crime and the built environment. Bayesian modeling is a promising direction since areal data require principled sharing of information to address spatial autocorrelation between proximal neighborhoods. We develop several Bayesian approaches to spatial sharing of information between neighborhoods while modeling trends in crime counts over time. We apply our methodology to estimate changes in crime throughout Philadelphia over the 2006-15 period while also incorporating spatially-varying economic and demographic predictors. We find that the local shrinkage imposed by a conditional autoregressive model has substantial benefits in terms of out-of-sample predictive accuracy of crime. We also explore the possibility of spatial discontinuities between neighborhoods that could represent natural barriers or aspects of the built environment.




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From Wends we came : the story of Johann and Maria Huppatz & their descendants / compiled by Frank Huppatz and Rone McDonnell.

Huppatz (Family).




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The Importance of Being Clustered: Uncluttering the Trends of Statistics from 1970 to 2015

Laura Anderlucci, Angela Montanari, Cinzia Viroli.

Source: Statistical Science, Volume 34, Number 2, 280--300.

Abstract:
In this paper, we retrace the recent history of statistics by analyzing all the papers published in five prestigious statistical journals since 1970, namely: The Annals of Statistics , Biometrika , Journal of the American Statistical Association , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B and Statistical Science . The aim is to construct a kind of “taxonomy” of the statistical papers by organizing and clustering them in main themes. In this sense being identified in a cluster means being important enough to be uncluttered in the vast and interconnected world of the statistical research. Since the main statistical research topics naturally born, evolve or die during time, we will also develop a dynamic clustering strategy, where a group in a time period is allowed to migrate or to merge into different groups in the following one. Results show that statistics is a very dynamic and evolving science, stimulated by the rise of new research questions and types of data.




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Macy&rsquo;s Insane Cyber Monday Sale Ends in a Few Hours&mdash;Here Are the Best Deals

You've got exactly four hours left to take advantage of these heavily discounted prices.






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Flamingos in Captivity Pick Favorite Friends Among the Flock

These cliques wear pink every day of the week