This report presents an overview of Career and Technical Education (CTE) in Vermont and nationally. A preliminary analysis of curricular opportunities available through Vermont’s CTE programs reveals that while there are many options for students to pursue across the state, programmatic offerings differ at each…

<a href="http://www.ajmc.com/journals/issue/2014/2014-11-vol20-sp/information-technology-and-hospital-patient-safety-a-cross-sectional-study-of-us-acute-care-hospitals/P-1">Am J Manag Care,&nbsp;20(17):SP39-SP47&nbsp;</a>Author(s): Ajit Appari, Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony&nbsp;<strong>Objectives</strong>To determine whether health information technology (IT) systems are associated with better patient safety in acute care settings.<strong>Study Design</strong>In a cross-sectional retrospective study, data on hospital patient safety performance for…

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<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11158-013-9227-5">Res Publica 19(4):317-333</a>Author(s): Lucas SwaineThis article analyzes the moral and political implications of strong moral character for political action. The treatment provides reason to hold that strong moral character should play a role in a robust normative account of political leadership. The case is…

<a href="http://smr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/21/0049124113500475.full.pdf">Sociological Methods and Research 00(0):1-27</a>Author(s): John Campbell, Charles Quincy, Jordan Osserman, and Ove PedersenMany social science studies are based on coded in-depth semistructured interview transcripts. But researchers rarely report or discuss coding reliability in this work. Nor is there much literature on the subject…

The purpose of this report is to inform the New Hampshire state government of ways in which various welcome centers in the Northeast area sustain themselves so they may consider the possibility of reopening three centers that have recently been shut down due to budget…

New Hampshire’s Medicaid program began its transition to managed care on December 1, 2013. This shift to the managed care model of Medicaid represents an attempt to control costs and improve the coordination of health care. The shift to managed care is part of a…

Cortex,&nbsp;Volume 50, January 2014, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945213002013">Pages 200–203</a>.People frequently evaluate facial attractiveness and make inferences about character traits from faces, and these evaluations are consistent across observers (Todorov, Said, &amp; Verosky, 2011). Do these face evaluations rely on the same perceptual mechanisms as facial identity recognition…

As a result of the emotional, social, and fiscal costs of suicide, in 2008 New Hampshire formed the Suicide Prevention Council, made up of state politicians, doctors, and mental health experts, in order to closely examine the factors contributing to the rise in youth suicide…

In recent years, the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee has seen an increase in the number and complexity of applications for energy facilities seeking to locate in New Hampshire. Chaired by the Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, the role and responsibilities…