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Proceedings of Summer Symposium for Students 2022
(2022-05-23)Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium hosted the third edition of Summer Symposium for Students on May 21, 2022. 17 CFSRC student researchers from 6 different universities shared their work with the CFSRC investigator team. ... -
The Return to Work in Disablity Programs: What Has Been Learned and Next Steps
(Social Security Administration, 2022-01-24)We review a number of demonstrations conducted by the Social Security Administration which have attempted to improve labor market outcomes for disabled worker beneficiaries of the Social Security Disability Insurance ... -
A Choice Too Far: Transit Difficulty and Early High School Transfer
<jats:p> The challenge of a long and difficult commute to school each day is likely to wear on students, leading some to change schools. We used administrative data from approximately 3,900 students in the Baltimore City ... -
Schools of Encanto: Puerto Rico's Schools Closure Policy Study Case
(2022-05)Current research on school closures in the United States uses observational methods aiming to measure students’ academic performance; however, studies are limited to big cities and either elementary or high school students. ... -
Patterns of Poverty: A Regional Exploration of Poverty in America
(2022-05)Existing research on American poverty largely focuses on the national average experience of poverty, offering sweeping conclusions. This article describes regional differences in poverty outcomes, challenging the notion ... -
Mouse PVRIG Has CD8+ T Cell–Specific Coinhibitory Functions and Dampens Antitumor Immunity
A limitation to antitumor immunity is the dysfunction of T cells in the tumor microenvironment, in part due to upregulation of coinhibitory receptors such as PD-1. Here, we describe that poliovirus receptor-related ... -
Trump or Bust: How Political Identification Impacts Opinions on Health Reform
(2022-05)Considerable research has been conducted on the development of one’s political ideology and its impact on opinions regarding policy. This study contributes to this body of research by studying factors which influence the ... -
Introspections: Medical Stories and Other Essays
(2022-05)This collection of stories is about discovering identity, and the dreams that were born from this long hunt. Such a pursuit might have been chasing an ideal that never truly existed. Or worse yet, chasing somebody else’s ... -
Professionals Who Care: A Nonprofit Design for Inclusivity of Caregivers in the Workplace
(2022-05)Informal caregivers provide essential care to the disabled, ill, aging, or injured, services that are valued over $470 billion annually in the United States. Research has shown that nearly half of these caregivers had no ... -
Establishing a Government Run Safe Injection Facility in the City of Philadelphia
(2022-05)The City of Philadelphia is currently facing an opioid epidemic of unprecedented proportions, with 1,214 drug related overdoses in 2020 alone. The problem has been so detrimental that in 2019, the city had the highest rate ... -
Drug Use and Possession in the United States: A Twenty-First Century Proposal for Federal Decriminalization Efforts
(2022-05)For decades, the United States has waged a moral crusade against illicit drugs and people who use such drugs, responding with criminal penalties. This punitive response to illicit substance use has increasingly been ... -
A Proposal to Establish a National High-Speed Rail Network in the United States
(2022-05)High-speed rail is well positioned to offer a solution to shrinking transportation capacity and growing environmental threats in the United States. While many competing nations have taken steps to build their own robust ... -
A Collection of Stories about the Opioid Crisis, Climate Change, and the People Working to Fix them
(2022-05)The opioid crisis touches millions. Many families, including my own, have been affected by addiction to opioids. The first half of this collection of stories examines how addiction works in the brain, naloxone distribution, ... -
Securing the Pre- and Post-Award Process for Boston Children's Hospital and Collaborating Institutions
(2022-05)In the world of research, where there are ever-changing policies and procedures, we must adapt technically as an institution by implementing well-established procedures to ensure security, version control, auditability and ... -
The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure: A New Method for Measuring Poverty
(2022-05-10)We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on expenditure in the Consumer Expenditure survey. It treats household expenditure as a measure of resources ... -
Addressing Occupational Staffing Shortages in the Veterans Health Administration
(2022-05)The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the component agency of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responsible for administering health care benefits to veterans and eligible beneficiaries, is facing chronic workforce ... -
Closing the Last Loophole
(2022-05)The proliferation of illegitimate capital being spent in the United States remains an economic and national security concern. The American economic system is becoming an innocuous haven for illegitimate capital as 70.6% ... -
The Price of Transgender Military Service: Do Public Opinions on Government Defense Spending Predict Support for Allowing Transgender People to Serve?
(2022-05)While a significant body of research exists regarding public attitudes toward the transgender community, little has been conducted specifically concerning views on transgender military service. Existing scholarship suggests ... -
Policy Proposal to Reduce Water Pollution in China
(2022-05)China's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade, but the country's extensive economic development model caused China to neglect environmental protection. China's water quality has been deteriorating in recent years ... -
Freedom of Navigation in the Arctic: Options for Deterring Russia's Excessive Maritime Claims
(2022-05)As climate change opens up new lanes of international commerce from melting sea ice in the Arctic, the region has growing importance to American strategy. The newly viable Northern Sea Route (NSR) through the Arctic Ocean ...