Joshua Simmons (joshsimmons)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

My name is Josh, and I'm an optimistic critical thinker with a passion for life. My lenses are tinted with hues of philosophy, technology, and anthropology. My trade skills are based in technology, primarily web technologies, and my emphasis is on human oriented design.

Oh, yeah; and I'm from C...

I am interested in The world,graphic design,web development,experience design,philosophy,context,technology. My favorite music are The Album Leaf,Sigur Ros,The Shins,Travis,Anberlin,Jeniferever. Movies: Almost Famous,Americano,Vanilla Sky,Waking Life,Stand By Me,Across the Universe,Network. TV: The Adventures of Pete and Pete,House,CSI: Las Vegas,Southpark,The Office. Books: The Things They Carried,Death Gate Cycle,The Blue Nowhere,Jarhead. My Heros are My mother,my father,Amber,Robyn,Zack,Johnny V.,Christina T.,and of course Zorro..

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Member since Feb 15, 2008, follows 6 people, 6 public groups, 468 public bookmarks (492 total).

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Paraben Forensics on 2008-08-30
Not All Fat Is Created Equal: Fat In Obese Patients Is 'Sick' Compared To Fat From Lean Patients on 2008-08-29
- The cells in their fat tissue aren't working properly and as a result, are sicker than cells found in lean patients' fat tissue.
- Lead author Guenther Boden, M.D. theorizes that "sick fat" could more fully explain the link between obesity and higher risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
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- - found significant differences at the cellular level
  - "They showed significant stress on the endoplasmic reticulum, and the tissue itself was more inflamed than in our lean patients."
Not All Drugs Are Equal In Treating Teen Drivers With ADHD on 2008-08-29
- Car collisions are two to four times more likely to occur among teens with ADHD.
Even Without Dementia, Mental Skills Decline Years Before Death on 2008-08-29
- The start of the decline is different for various cognitive abilities. Perceptual speed, which measures how quickly people can compare figures, begins declining nearly 15 years before death. Spatial ability starts declining nearly eight years before death. And verbal ability starts declining about six-and-a-half years before death.
- "Cardiovascular conditions such as heart disease or dementia that is too early to be detected could be factors," he said. "Increased health problems and frailty in old age often lead to inactivity, and this lack of exercise and mental stimulation could accelerate mental decline."
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- - "This indicates that people remain stable in their verbal abilities unless they are experiencing disease processes that also increase their mortality risk," he said. "A change in verbal ability might therefore be considered a critical marker for degeneration in health in older people."
Doom as an Interface for Process Management on 2008-08-28
A List Apart: Articles: Behavioral Separation on 2008-08-26
- Begin with your content,
  give it structure with semantically descriptive markup,
  apply a presentation layer using CSS, and finally,
  add a behavior layer with DOM Scripting.
A List Apart: Articles: Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer on 2008-08-26
- Websites informed by a Lefebvrian conception of cyberspace rather than a Cartesian one would provide truly user-centered design, by recognizing that it is the users themselves whose actions produce the website; the web designer merely facilitates that creation.
- In order to do so, Quintilian suggests a remarkable mnemonic device: the orator should imagine “a place…of the largest possible extent and characterised by the utmost possible variety, such as a spacious house divided into a number of rooms” (ibid.).
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- - Instead of imposing an architecture upon users from above, we should use the flow of their interactions with the site and with each other to determine the form of this memory map.
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers - washingtonpost.com on 2008-08-05
- In February, the Federal Trade Commission issued an order saying that MedPoint and IntelliScript are consumer reports under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, so the companies must notify insurers that consumers denied insurance on the basis of these reports have the right to request a copy of the report and that errors be corrected.
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers - washingtonpost.com on 2008-08-05
- Milliman's IntelliScript codes drugs red, yellow or green, according to the insurer's instructions, with red signaling the greatest risk, Franzen said. Red codes could include the so-called AIDS cocktail drugs and cancer medications, he said.
- The profiles cost insurers about $15 a search.
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- - Richard Dick, an entrepreneur who built the database system
  - "That's important because ultimately the people who tell the truth have to pay for those who don't."
  - "I had a patient on Amitriptyline for migraines and they were denied life insurance because it's also an antidepressant,"
  - Ingenix and Milliman officials stress that they provide data only with the patient's consent, as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a 1996 law that governs personal health records information. But HIPAA does not give the Department of Health and Human Services the ability to directly investigate or hold accountable entities, such as pharmacy benefit managers or companies such as Ingenix and Milliman, who are not covered by HIPAA.
  - A health privacy proposal pending in Congress would expand federal officials' ability to regulate such "downstream" organizations, audit their activities and impose civil fines. The bill also includes a prohibition on the sale of electronic medical records.
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers - washingtonpost.com on 2008-08-05
- one poised to take off as the nation enters the age of electronic medical records.
- UnitedHealthcare
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- - UnitedHealth Group
  - "Some insurers can make a decision in the same day, or right on the spot," Franzen said. "That's the real 'value-add.' "
  - Milliman IntelliScript
  - Ingenix

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