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Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , How DOE’s Proposed Large Load Interconnection Process Could Unlock the Benefits of Load Flexibility(2025-11-13) Farmer, Miles; Walsh, Sam; Smaczniak, Kim; Zevin, Avi; Lobel, Nathan; Daly, Gabe; Clements, Allison; Guo, Yuwen; Profeta, TimothyOn October 23, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright issued a letter directing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to consider an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (DOE ANOPR) to establish rules for the interconnection of large electricity loads to the transmission system. DOE seeks to ensure that “all Americans and domestic industries have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity.”1 Unlike FERC’s primary and longstanding role regulating generator interconnection to the transmission system, FERC has not asserted jurisdiction over load interconnections to date. The DOE ANOPR will therefore set off intense debate on the legal basis for FERC’s jurisdiction over large load interconnections in addition to its substantive proposals.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , The Social Cost of Plastic to the United States(2025) Lauer, Nancy; Nowlin, Michelle; Vegh, Tibor; Virdin, Juohn; Somarelli, JasonItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Blues on Stage: The Blues Entertainment Industry in the 1920s(Notes, 2025-09-01) Koppes, Anne EliseItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Human Knowing Explored, Enfolding Many SensesSeaman, Bill; Seaman, WilliamItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Value-based Payment Reform: Leveraging Saas Technologies for Care Model InnovationLongyear, RobertThis issue brief details key policy issues that inhibit care delivery organizations from adopting modern software infrastructure, Software as a Service (SaaS) clinical technologies, SaaS medical devices, and AI technologies that leverage patient-generated health data (PGHD) to transform care delivery models whereby improving system efficiency, quality of care, and per capita cost.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Plexus Lesions(2022-02-05) Ramos, JohnOrganized by body system, this text provides the in-depth, head-to-toe foundation you'll need as you prepare to move into clinical practice.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Current Advances in Rapid Stroke Diagnosis(Emergency Medicine Resident Magazine) Ramos, JohnItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , The Sharī’a of The Republic. Islamic Law and Philosophy in Averroes's Commentary on Plato’s Republic.(2022-04-15) Namazi, RasoulThe first collection of essays devoted to the Arabic philosopher Averroes's brilliant Commentary on Plato's Republic, which survived the medieval period only in Hebrew and Latin translations.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Incentivizing Grid Reliability: A Framework for Performance-Linked Electricity Improvements in Low- and Middle-Income Countries(2025-10-06) Phillips, Jonathan; Cissé, Abdoulaye; Jeuland, Marc; Lang, Megan Elizabeth; Lee, Jean Nahrae; McCord, Ryan; Meeks, Robyn; Patino-Echeverri, Dalia; Singh, Manpreet; Slaski, Xander; Song, Ruozi; Zaman, Rafia; Zwane, AlixReliable electricity is the foundation of modern economies and essential to social and human development. Without it, firms cannot expand, hospitals cannot operate safely, and households hesitate to invest in appliances and tools that improve daily life. It is reliability—not just connection—that unlocks the full promise of access: delivering jobs, growth, and opportunity. Yet across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), ensuring electricity reliability has proven to be one of the most intractable energy systems challenges. Today, key underlying conditions have shifted, opening an opportunity to directly focus finance and accountability toward improvements in service quality. Technologies like smart meters, feeder sensors, and cloud-based analytics are now affordable and practical to deploy even in weak-grid contexts. Development finance is moving decisively toward results-based mechanisms, and the political economy of the power sector is evolving with new actors—from distribution companies and private utilities to mini-grid and energy service operators—demonstrating accountability models that put performance at the center. What is needed next is a bold new approach that empowers locally led innovation to close the reliability gap. There is a window to act decisively by realigning incentives with results to unlock meaningful gains in productivity, service delivery, and equitable energy access. This discussion paper is intended to guide and inform the hard conversations and coalition-building needed to seize that window, helping operators, funders, and governments chart a path toward reliable power systems that deliver on the full promise of electrification.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Living the Liturgy Enlarging the Baptist Vision(2024-09) Newman, Adjunct Professor of Baptist Theology ElizabethLiving the Liturgy displays in particular ways and through specific examples how an ecumenically informed understanding of liturgy can cultivate an enriched Baptist self-understanding and witness in a late modern context.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Exchanging Money for Money: Late-Scholastic Thought in Early Modern Spain(2024) Vilches, ElviraMoney exchange contracts were at the core of late-scholastic teaching and writing in Spain during the sixteenth century. Any contract of money for money was known as cambios. Under this heading, merchants and theologians articulated how they viewed money and its economic functions. At the University of Salamanca, the lectures and writings by Francisco de Vitoria, Domingo de Soto, and Martín de Azpilcueta Navarro on matters of money and exchange engaged with merchants, fellow theologians, and the clergy. The work of these scholars reveals a new scholastic perspective on current financial practices that taxes prior interpretations. Over the course of the sixteenth century, the understanding of money evolved from the traditional meaning of money as the sign and instrument of the exchange of goods to a quantitative theory of value that understood money in ways similar to those of practicing merchants. Although Vitoria and Soto remained closer to the traditional idea of money as an instrument of exchange, their work led to Navarro’s pragmatic analysis of international exchange and his understanding of trading and banking as reputable professions.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Howell-Jolly body-like inclusions in neutrophils(2020-03-02) Carrillo, LuisItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia with KRAS mutationCarrillo, Luis; Nguyen, TranItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Counting the Cost: Quantifying the Rising Impacts of Heat-Related Productivity Losses in the United States (2001–2023)(2025-09-29) Clark, Jordan; Weintraut, Ben; Nagamoto, Emily; Wilson, Melanie; Snyder, Julee; Ward, AshleyExtreme heat is increasingly recognized as a major threat to workers' health and economic productivity. This study quantifies how rising temperatures have eroded US economic productivity over the past two decades, especially in heat-exposed industries. Using high-resolution hourly weather data and multiple labor productivity models, the authors estimate that heat-related productivity losses grew from a model average of $130 billion in 2001 to $220 billion in 2023. These losses have been concentrated in sectors with relatively high exposure to heat, with the construction and manufacturing sectors facing the highest average annual losses—though all sectors have been impacted. Geographically, heat has disproportionately affected rural Southern counties, where average annual heat-related losses often exceed 3% of total county gross domestic product. The study sheds new light on heat-economy interactions, showing how both modeling assumptions and local conditions significantly affect estimated impacts, providing critical insights for developing targeted adaptation strategies.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Heat Legislation in the Southeast: Gaps, Innovations, and Opportunities(2025-09-18) Snyder, Julee; Wilk Mizrahi, Andrea; Harley, Camille; Ward, AshleyExtreme heat is the fastest-growing weather-related hazard in the United States, posing mounting risks to human health, infrastructure, and economic stability. Nowhere is this threat more urgent than in the Southeastern states, where high humidity, widespread energy poverty, and extensive outdoor labor converge to make the region particularly susceptible to extreme heat’s ill effects. While there have been efforts to review heat governance and local government responses to heat (Gallo 2023), this report provides the first multistate review of extreme heat–related legislation across 11 Southeastern states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia—from 2014 to 2024. It catalogs more than 200 relevant bills, evaluates their success in passing, and assesses the extent to which Southeastern legislatures are responding to the public health and economic risks posed by extreme heat.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Social Needs Data in the State Medicaid Enrollment Form: A Content Analysis(2020-01-08) Longyear, Robert; Adams, Caroline; Moore, JenniferThe Institute for Medicaid Innovation (IMI) conducted a content analysis of the Medicaid enrollment application form for each state to assess the extent to which social needs data were collected. As state Medicaid agencies, health plans, and community-based organizations design and implement interventions related to social determinants of health (SDOH), identifying the specific social needs of individuals at the point of enrollment in Medicaid has the potential to expedite the coordination of needed services and supports that will improve overall health outcomes. However, our analysis found that states varied in the type and number of specific social needs data collected. Furthermore, it is unknown whether these data are being transmitted to Medicaid stakeholders, such as health plans, as part of the EDI 834 file.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Engaging Communities, Aligning Strategies, and Scaling Solutions: A Report from HeatWise DC(2025-09-12) Ward, Ashley; Watson, Lillian; Snyder, Julee; Nagamoto, Emily; Bjorkback, DavidHeatWise DC—a continuation of the HeatWise Policy Partnership launched in 2024—brought together 62 cross-sectoral leaders to confront the rising threat of extreme heat. Held in Washington, DC, the three-day event focused on rural vulnerability; national security and defense; and finance, insurance, and industry. Participants highlighted that while there are existing tools and knowledge to address heat, policy, funding, and delivery systems remain disconnected from the realities on the ground. The report indicates that scalable, durable solutions are within reach if supported by intentional governance, long-term capacity, and shared purpose.