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Analysis of Phase 2 data sets by the UIUC/GTRI INFERENCE team for the DARPA TAILOR program. These data sets are INSIGHT, PHITE, HERA, and MASTRE. These are all existing human performance data sets that are a mix of physiological, cognitive, genomic and human performance data.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_2399808320921208 for Classifying settlement types from multi-scale spatial patterns of building footprints by Warren C Jochem, Douglas R Leasure, Oliver Pannell, Heather R Chamberlain, Patricia Jones and Andrew J Tatem in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_2399808320921208 for Classifying settlement types from multi-scale spatial patterns of building footprints by Warren C Jochem, Douglas R Leasure, Oliver Pannell, Heather R Chamberlain, Patricia Jones and Andrew J Tatem in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

The National Institute on Aging has taken special efforts to support research endeavors that explore ways to address health disparities. For example, the NIA Health Disparities Research Framework was developed in 2015 to provide a visualization of priority areas in Aging Research. The Framework can help researchers assess advances and potential opportunities for stimulating and supporting rigorous methods to address health disparities in Aging Research among the phases of research. The goal of this symposium is to highlight the different resources and research opportunities that NIA offers to support aging researchers, centers, and institutions for health disparities-related research or programs. Dr. Ron Kohanski will present a concept piece on how laboratory animals might be leveraged to mimic the impact of early life disparities on aging over the life-course, based on research in the hallmarks of aging support by NIA’s Extramural Division of Aging Biology. Dr. Damali Martin will identify the different resources focused on health disparities related research within the Division of Neuroscience. Dr. Lyndon Joseph will discuss the different health disparities research opportunities that are available from the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Geriatrics. Dr. Frank Bandiera will highlight the different resources and research opportunities that are available to address health disparities within the Division of Behavior and Social Research. These presentations, taken together, will provide important information that bolsters knowledge of resources and research opportunities to address health disparities over the lifecourse and in late life.

This paper proposes a new instrument for institutional quality—-the salary of colonial governors—-to investigate whether variations in the quality of British colonial rule continue to have an impact on the economic performance of former colonies. Governors’ salaries provide a good source of exogenous variation because the ranking of salaries across the British Empire remained relatively fixed from the late nineteenth century onwards. Perhaps most important, this instrument varies widely across colonies with historically low rates of European settlement—that is, most countries in today’s developing world. Using a two-stage least squares estimation procedure, I find that colonies with higher paid governors developed better institutions (and higher per capita income) than colonies with lower paid governors.

Improving quality and patient safety, containing costs and delivering value-for-money are the key drivers of change in the delivery of healthcare and have stimulated a shift from an activity-based service to a service based on patient-outcomes. The delivery of an outcomes-based healthcare agenda requires that the real value of laboratory medicine to all stakeholders be understood, effectively defined and communicated. The value proposition of any product or service is the link between the provider and the needs of the customer describing the utility of the product or service in terms of benefit to the customer. The framework of a value proposition for laboratory medicine provides the core business case that drives key activities in the evolution and maintenance of high quality healthcare from research through to adoption and quality improvement in an established service. The framework of a value proposition for laboratory medicine is described. The content is endorsed by IFCC and WASPaLM. Refereed/Peer-reviewed