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To investigate general patterns in news information in the United States, we combine a protocol for identifying major political news stories, 11 monthly surveys with 15,000 participants, and a model of news discernment. When confronted with a true and a fake news story, 47 percent of subjects confidently choose the true story, 3 percent confidently choose the fake story, and the remaining half are uncertain. Socioeconomic differences are associated with large variations in the probability of selecting the true news story. Partisan congruence between an individual and a news story matters, but its impact is up to an order of magnitude smaller. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary, but guaranteed income stream increases Mexican migration to the United States, although this income is mainly consumed. Some households use the entitlement to this income stream as collateral to finance the migration. The new migrations come from previously constrained individuals and households and worsen migrant skills. In sum, financial constraints to international migration are binding for poor Mexicans, some of whom would like to migrate but cannot afford to. As growth and antipoverty and microfinance programs relax financial constraints for the poor, low-skilled Mexican migration to the United States will likely increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article looks at the development in the property insurance law in the U.S. after the Superstorm Sandy. Topics discussed include property damage provisions under the National Flood Insurance Program, a court case Ryan v. Selective Insurance Co. of America regarding the flood insurance policies, the Seventh Circuit court case Edgewood Manor Apartment Homes, LLC v. RSUI Indemnity Co. regarding the claim of replacement cost value (RCV) of damaged property.

The article presents an in-depth examination into U.S.-Mexican border enforcement and its connections to illegal immigration trends. Statistical analysis is presented estimating the inflow and outflow of Mexican migrants to the United States between 1972 and 2003 and evaluating its effectiveness. Further attention is given to the methodological use of choice-based sampling analysis on the data and its research benefits. Findings highlight different statistical correlations between border enforcement strictness and migration behaviors. Conclusions are also provided identifying overall effectiveness of the border system.

Standard approaches to the development of psychological measures emphasize the role of the research team in identifying constructs, generating and retaining items, and establishing psychometric soundness. Although there are a number of strengths associated with these methods, the resulting measures may not be culturally sensitive to minority cultural groups. In order to address this need, the authors partnered with African American inner-city 3rd- and 4th-grade girls (predominantly 9- and 10-year-olds) to design and validate a cartoon-based hostile attributional bias measure that is developmentally and culturally sensitive. This paper illustrates how a partnership-based research model can be used to design measurement tools sensitive to the ways in which developmental processes are influenced by an urban, low-income, ecological context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the confusion surrounding the concept of medical futility. Various definitions of medical futility; Need for healthcare providers and organizations in the U.S. to develop workable guidelines or a framework for addressing medical futility; Factors that should be adopted by healthcare organizations so as to improve patient care.

Describes the emergency medical technician (EMT) program initiated by Queen of Peace Hospital, a rural health facility in Minnesota, which allowed EMT to work in the emergency department. Role of increasing patient volume and acuity in the development of the EMT program; Education provided to EMT in the program; Levels of EMT developed by the facility; Benefits of the program.

Focuses on a program adopted by a hospital in the U.S. that allows nurses to write activity orders for their patients. Benefits of nurses and patients from the program; Terms under the program's guidelines; Outcome of the effort.

Focuses on the need for nurses to recognize personal biases in order to be able to deliver a culturally congruent nursing care. Biomedical system; Personalistic system; Naturalistic system; Effects of cultural factors in patient behavior.