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"Dhār, Bhoja and Sarasvatī: From Indology to Political Mythology and Back," first published JRAS 2012, this the corrected version published online 2018.

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The most frequently used bases for comparing international health care resources are health care expenditures, measured either as a fraction of gross domestic product (GDP) or per capita. There are several possible reasons for this, including the widespread availability of historic expenditure figures; the attractiveness of collapsing resource data into a common unit of measurement; and the present focus among OECD member countries and other governments on containing health care costs. Despite important criticisms of this method, relatively few alternatives have been used in practice. A simple framework for comparing data underlying health care systems is presented in this article. It distinguishes measures of real resources, for example human resources, medicines and medical equipment, from measures of financial resources such as expenditures. Measures of real resources are further subdivided according to whether their factor prices are determined primarily in national or global markets. The approach is illustrated using a simple analysis of health care resource profiles for Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Comparisons based on measures of both real resources and expenditures can be more useful than conventional comparisons of expenditures alone and can lead to important insights for the future management of health care systems.

1 Atomic and molecular orbitals -- 2 Aromaticity -- 3 The stereochemical requirements of concerted pericyclic reactions -- 4 The concept of the conservation of orbital symmetry -- 5 Alternative rationalizations-the aromaticity of pericyclic transition states -- 6 The organic chemistry of pericyclic reactions -- Appendix I Determinants -- Appendix II The solution of secular equations -- Appendix III HMO treatment of the cyclopropenyl system -- Appendix IV Answers to problems -- References.

The election of U.S. President Obama thrust healthcare reform onto the legislative agenda and sent public information officers and public relations practitioners scrambling to more effectively influence legislators in order to benefit employers and clients. In previous studies, legislators placed mass media last on lists of sources preferred for informing policymaking decisions. This study replicates and extends previous research, filling a 20- year gap and focusing exclusively on healthcare policy information sources preferred by New Mexico legislators. An Internet survey indicated legislators preferred to get healthcare decision-making information first from expert colleagues, second from constituents. Mass media ranked at the bottom of their lists of preferred sources, although legislators did not entirely discount media usefulness. Respondents also felt while media can help build consensus, they usually promote adversarial relationships between lawmakers and their publics. Synthesis of results suggests that those seeking to influence legislators should divide their efforts more evenly between authoring journalist information subsidies and building personal relationships with legislators they seek to influence.

An internet survey and follow-up mail survey were conducted in order to (a) determine New Mexico state legislators' preferred sources for information when making decisions about healthcare policies and to (b) assess the state legislators' attitudes toward e-mail more generally. Legislators were found to privilege expert colleagues and constituents over mass media as healthcare policy information sources; additionally, face-to-face encounters with constituents were preferred over e-mail, although respondents largely felt positive about using e-mail with both constituents and colleagues. These preferences regarding information sourcing and delivery indicate that public relations practitioners' (PRPs) continuing tendency to communicate with state legislators using traditional media-centric methods are problematic. Results suggest legislators could be reached with greater effect if PRPs were to supplement their use of mass media channels with more personal, symmetrical relationship management strategies.

Military training utilizing serious games or virtual worlds potentially generate data that can be mined to better understand how trainees' learn in experiential exercises. Few data mining approaches for deployed military training games exist. Opportunities exist to collect and analyze these data, as well as to construct a fullhistory learner model. Outcomes discussed in the present document include results from a quasi-experimental research study on military game-based experiential learning, the deployment of an online game for training evidence collection, and results from a proof-of-concept pilot study on the development of individualized training vectors. This Lab Directed Research & Development (LDRD) project leveraged products within projects, such as Titan (Network Grand Challenge), RealTime Feedback and Evaluation System, (America's Army Adaptive Thinking & Leadership, DARWARS Ambush! NK), and Dynamic Bayesian Networks to investigate whether machine learning capabilities could perform real-time, in-game similarity vectors of learner performance, toward adaptation of content delivery, and quantitative measurement of experiential learning.