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Evaluation of high fidelity simulation within a health assessment course
(2008-10-21)The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to investigate the impact of high fidelity simulation on knowledge and confidence levels among undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students within a Health Assessment ... -
Civic Engagement and Gentrification Issues in Metropolitan Baltimore
(Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2009)Since the fall of 2006 a number of Towson University students concentrating in the discipline of anthropology have been part of a civic engagement and service-learning project focusing on an historic African-American ... -
Suburban Fear, Media and Gated Communities in Durban, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)A disjuncture between the reality of crime and its perception has created a culture of fear within South Africa that bolsters gated community development and an accompanying fear industry that supports media, private ... -
Introduction: the stakes of whiteness studies
(Wiley Blackwell, 2009-04)An introduction to a series of essays about racism and whiteness in the U.S. Included are information on anthropology's contribution to critical whiteness studies, the complexity by which whiteness in its various manifestations ... -
Enacting the nation on stage: styles, subjects, and themes in American opera librettos of the 1910s
(National Opera Association, 2009-06)The article focuses on six staged operas of 1910s with national style. Topics discussed include operas with a theme of racial encounter such as "Natoma" by Victor Herbert, opera "Azora" by Henry Hadley showing the fall of ... -
Transfers and labor market behavior of the elderly in developing countries: theory and evidence from Vietnam
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2009-08-28)In this paper we argue that the strategic interaction between the labor supply decision of the elderly and private transfers from their children lowers the opportunity cost of leisure of the elderly. This in turn magnifies ... -
One person, One music: reconsidering the Duke-Dukelsky musical style
(University of Illinois Press, 2010)"[E]xamining Duke’s work, one finds patterns of stylistic consistency that unite his two compositional personalities. Those patterns undercut Duke’s professed dual identity as a composer. His self-construction as a composer ... -
Medical consumption over the life cycle: facts from a U.S. medical expenditure panel survey
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)We investigate the association between age and medical spending in the U.S. using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). We estimate a partial linear seminonparametric model and construct “pure” life-cycle ... -
Subjective health expectations
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)Subjective health expectations are derived using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We first use a Bayesian updating mechanism to correct for focal point responses and reporting errors of the original health ... -
The macroeconomics of heath savings accounts
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010)We analyze whether the introduction of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which is a health insurance reform coupled with a capital tax reform, can reduce health care expenditures in the United States, while simultaneously ... -
Health care financing over the life cycle, universal medical vouchers and welfare
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-01)In this paper we develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations (OLG) model with health shocks to analyze the life-cycle pattern of insurance choice and health care spending. We use data from the Medical Expenditure ... -
Global social interactions with sequential binary decisions: the case of marriage, divorce, and stigma
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-01-23)This paper studies global social interactions in a stylized model of marriage and divorce with complementarities across agents. The key point of departure from traditional models of social interactions is that actions are ... -
Does the availability of parental health insurance affect the college enrollment decision of young Americans?
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-06)The present study examines whether the college enrollment decision of young individuals (student full-time, student part-time, non-student) depends on health insurance coverage via a parent’s family health plan. Our findings ... -
Fuzzy mediation as a dynamic method of information fusion and shared control
(2010-07-27)Information fusion algorithms are designed to perform efficiently when dealing with multiple sensors and environments with a static set of integration rules. When placed in an environment with multiple controllers and the ... -
Troubling violence: a performance project (Book review)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-10-09)The article reviews the book "Troubling Violence: A Performance Project," by M. Heather Carver and Elaine J. Lawless. -
A macroeconomic analysis of the fiscal system in Egypt
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2010-10-27)We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal situ- ation of Egypt. We model Egypt as a small open economy that takes real interest rates and world prices of fuel as given. Since a large component ... -
An historical flop flips back into existence: Vernon Duke's Sweet bye and bye
(Brooklyn College. H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, 2011)An examination of Vernon Duke's musical flop, Sweet Bye and Bye and a modern recording of the show's material. -
Does health insurance decrease health expenditure risk in developing countries? the case of China
(Towson University. Department of Economics, 2011)This paper studies the impact of health insurance on individual out-of-pocket health expenditures in China. Using China Health and Nutrition Survey data between 1991 and 2006, we apply two-part and sample selection models ... -
Making the Cut: Do Faculty Want to Be Involved in Library Database Cancellations?
(SLA Academic Division, 2011)Because of the recent economic crisis, a number of academic libraries have faced the possibility of having to cancel database subscriptions. As a major user group of academic libraries, faculty have a history of ... -
Gated communities: perspectives on privatized spaces: review essay
(Wiley, 2011-01)Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives (2006) and Gated Communities (2006) continue a trend in urban studies that focus on recent manifestations of these developments in a variety of global locales. As the editors ...