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Perhaps now that hospitals know what patients are thinking, they can work to improve. Despite general patient satisfaction, the HCAHPS survey suggests that basic components of care can make or break the patient experience - things like how patients interact with hospital staff. "We should be in the upper 90s [in percentage of approval] on these things," Jha says. "It strikes me that we have a long...
...kind of notice. You're never going to get a search warrant or an after-the-fact notice that your communications have been intercepted. I think people would be really shocked if they understood the dragnet nature of the surveillance. This shroud of secrecy has been thrown over basic government operations, denying people basic information they are entitled to. As we know less and less about our government, they know more and more about...
...Such success is testimony to Disney's deft globalization policy. The company left the tunes and story intact worldwide but added local flavor by region. Disney's basic marketing formula for the film's release abroad: find a local star to serve as a bridge between the Disney content and the local market. In Poland, fans watch HSM videos that splice together scenes from the original movie dubbed by fresh-faced Polish pop stars. On Israel's Disney Channel, a Gabriella lookalike sings soulfully in Hebrew. In India, the entire sound track has been re-recorded in Hindi, with Indian...
...sixth flip. This person thinks that since the outcome of tails is bound to occur eventually, there is a higher probability of tails occurring and thus bets on this outcome, even though there is no statistical change in tails actually coming up. “This is a basic human idea that if things have equal probabilities, they have to even out in the short term as well as the long term, and this is the crux of the fallacy,” Barron said. In the study, the researchers had their subjects predict the color outcomes of a roulette...
...show, which runs Thursday through Saturday at the Loeb Mainstage, finds a successful footing under Stern’s experienced direction.What differentiates the “Hyacinth Macaw” from other plays is its rather disjointed plot line and lack of a coherent narrative structure. However, the basic story revolves around Raymond (Alex R. Breaux ’09) and Dora (Sarah A. Sherman ’09), an ostensibly typical married couple raising their teenage daughter Susanna (Tali B. Friedman ’10) in blissful ignorance of the bizarre tragedy that will soon threaten their familial ties...