Examining the association between Medicaid coverage and preterm births using 2010–2013 National Vital Statistics Birth Data

Reducing the number of preterm births is a high public health priority in the U.S. Preterm birth, affecting an estimated 380,000 infants annually, is a leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity and is associated with individual and systemic characteristics. Preterm birth is estimated to cost society $26 billion annually. Despite an elevated financial burden caused by preterm birth, very little is known about who bears these costs. This study seeks to understand the relationship between Medicaid and private insurance payment for preterm birth, using multiple years of vital statistics data, which for the first time since 2010 include information on payment source. The nationwide data cover births that occur in all settings, including non-hospital settings, and many maternal characteristics not available in other datasets, improving upon previous analyses. These data can be used to promote better Medicaid coverage of interventions known to be effective in reducing preterm births.     

Then press enter: digital payment technology and the history of telephone interface

The internet and other digital networks in the U.S. (and beyond) remain essentially an upgrade of the national telephone network built by AT&T over the first half of the twentieth century, and digital payment remains tethered to telephony at the level of infrastructure. Telephone history also continues to inform digital payment at the level of interface. Debit card readers feature a keypad nearly identical to those introduced (also by AT&T) to the dialling public a half-century ago on touch-tone telephones. In this essay I highlight the development of the touch-tone keypad as a transformative payment technology. There have been three great leaps forward in the history of telephone interface: the dial, the keypad and the touch screen. Each corresponds to a period of technological transformation in the telephone industry and society more broadly: the rotary dial and automation, touch-tone keypads and digitization, and touch screens and computerization. The successful careers of the dial and the keypad, especially when read in tandem, suggest that touch screens will alter the everyday economics of retail payment even more radically than its predecessors. I also describe a broader trajectory of digital naturalization, whereby telephone numbers have proliferated into a personal identification number, passwords and a plethora of personalized information. Payments increasingly circulate today as subsets of personal information within the vast sea of big data. Payment apps are demonstrating a capacity to reorganize retail transactions on a scale as vast as any technology since the cash register. The history of retail payment finds the point of sale heading from the till into shoppers’ pockets. As a result, consumers are increasingly shouldering the costs of purchasing, maintaining, upgrading and securing the technology used for everyday transactions.     

移动互联网时代高校图书馆阅读服务研究

在论述移动互联网时代高校图书馆阅读服务挑战与机遇的基础上,指出了移动互联网时代高校图书馆阅读服务的四个制约因素：移动阅读市场复杂、读者黏合度降低、浅阅读现象、馆员素质薄弱。并调查分析了高校图书馆阅读服务现状,据此提出了高校图书馆阅读服务的发展策略：构建移动阅读空间、构建多元阅读服务路径、打造立体化阅读指导以及深入开展阅读推广活动。     

移动互联网时代教育舆情风险防范与危机应对探析

移动互联网时代,教育舆情的呈现日益显在化,教育舆情的类型日渐多元化,教育舆情的演化日趋复杂化;与此同时,教育舆情处置面临着教育舆情风险不确定性增大、教育舆情冲突破坏性加重、教育舆情危机化解难度升高等诸多新挑战。应该针对当前移动互联网时代教育舆情生成与演化各阶段的特点,做好教育舆情态势的识别与研判,抓好教育舆情风险的预警与防范。同时,明确教育舆情危机应对的责任主体及其处置权限;及时发声,回应社会关切,掌控舆情走向;解决问题,化解矛盾,平息舆情危机;妥善做好相关善后事宜,防止舆情反复及次生舆情事件的发生。     

论新媒介环境下的政府公共传播

互联网、手机等新媒体的普及形塑了一个新的媒介环境,它具有传播全球化、去中心化、开放性和信息多元化、舆论复杂化等鲜明特征,给政府公共传播带来了新的机遇和挑战。政府必须根据新媒介环境的特征和规律,采取相应的公共传播对策。     

纳税信誉等级制度建设中应注意的若干问题

为了科学有效的构建和完善纳税信誉等级制度,应注意对会计信息质量特征的评价分析、体现依法、公开、公正、公平的原则、加大税务监查工作的威慑力、建立加强纳税信誉等级的动态管理以及认真分析评估企业的避税和节税状况等问题。     

MAS环境下实现Agent交互协作的关键技术

讨论了MAS环境下实现Agent交互协作的关键性问题。在分析Agent协同设计目标的基础上,将遗传算法应用于子任务的调度,提高了Agent协同工作的效率。应用Agent的通信语言建立了一个基于知识查询与操纵语言的Agent通信模型,通过引入Agent位置追踪和Agent消息缓存机制解决了Agent移动过程中遇到的位置追踪和通信失效问题。     

转轨期间财政转移支付制度的区域均衡效应

政府实行财政转移支付制度有多重目标:实现纵向平衡和横向平衡、矫正外溢性及其他经济政治目标。规范的转移支付制度的终极目标追求的是区域间财政能力或公共服务水平均等化。我国现行政府间转移支付制度虽然在实现纵向平衡方面有明显成就,过渡期转移支付办法在一定程度上也有利于区域间财政能力的均衡,但总体而言,从设计到实施,在矫正区域间的横向均衡方面缺乏成效,没能有效地控制区域间财政能力差距的进一步扩大。要进一步发挥其区域均衡效应,必须进行转移支付制度的调整和创新。     

浅论国家赔偿费用管理

完善的国家赔偿制度是民主法治的标尺和安全阀,是国家对公民承担侵权责任的方式和标志。国家赔偿费用管理是实现国家赔偿的重要保证,直接关系到赔偿请求人能否最终获得赔偿。本文旨在分析研究我国现行国家赔偿费用管理中存在的若干问题,并提出相关完善建议。     

中小企业移动营销的问题与对策研究

我国中小企业移动营销尚处于起步阶段,形式较低端,存在不少问题。在分析移动营销新趋势、现状及问题的基础上提出要从深化移动营销理念认识、培养移动营销团队、完善移动营销效果评价体系、开展精准营销、移动营销与移动支付并轨、完善移动营销技术和技巧等方面的改进对策。