Geographic Variation in Behavior: Perspectives on Evolutionary Mechanisms

This issue examines the data sources and methods used to adjust payments, and recommended a number of changes, and applies recommendations in order to determine their potential effect on Medicare payments to hospitals and clinical practitioners. This book also offers recommendations to improve access to efficient and appropriate levels of care.

The present volume includes a selection of 20 papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held in Giessen (Germany) in May 2010.

In "Primate Perspectives on Behavior and Cognition", experts with a diverse range of perspectives explore the contributions made to the study of primate cognition and behavior and provide guideposts for new generations of researchers studying behavior as manifested across primate species.

Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. Increasing costs strain budgets at all levels of government and threaten the solvency of Medicare, the nation's largest health insurer.

Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but rather–along with language and the ability to understand other minds–one of a trio of related capacities that are fundamental to human mentality.

Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics.