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Top foundation news, including a Perspective on care delivery in community settings.

Building a consumer protection system for care delivered in the community

By Beth Berselli, Program Officer for Patient Care Program
How our health care is provisioned and paid for has been much in the news lately – particularly as it relates to improving the experience and outcomes of care for elderly, high-need patients. Our Patient Care Program has been investigating how best to provide high-quality care for this patient population and in the places they most want to receive it: in the community and in their homes.
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GRANTEE NAME: PhET
PROGRAM AREA: Science
FIRST GRANT: 2013
TOTAL NUMBER OF GRANTS: 2
CUMULATIVE GRANT AMOUNT: $2,271,000

Founded by Nobel Laureate Carl Weiman, the PhET Interactive Simulations at the University of Colorado Boulder provides fun, interactive math and science simulations for students of all ages. PhET has created more than 100 research-based simulations, each tested and evaluated to ensure scientific accuracy and educational effectiveness. All simulations are open source. One of the goals of PhET is to provide students with an open exploratory environment to engage with the science content like a scientist. Foundation support allows PhET to repurpose simulations for use as assessments of scientific and critical reasoning. Check out this short video introduction to PhET and learn more about our work them here.
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Incentives to preserve the redwoods coming to Santa Cruz landowners
A carbon bank program could be coming to the Santa Cruz Mountains area in 2018. The program would provide a financial incentive to landowners of redwood forest properties to keep forest ecosystems intact by conserving their land. Local community meetings will help determine how many local landowners would be interested in enrolling in the program.
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Ensuring ocean prey and predators meet ecosystem survival thresholds
Marine scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara examine “thresholds” that need to be met in order for marine ecosystem survival. This foundation funded research has important implications for the restoration of degraded ecosystems.
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A 'collective superintelligence' for doctors and patients
The Human Diagnosis Project is applying its novel software platform to build a diagnostic system for patients, doctors and caregivers using clinical experience contributed by physicians and researchers around the world. Foundation support contributes to understanding how this system can be implemented in ambulatory or outpatient settings to improve patient safety.
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Plankton are not helplessly adrift; they can adapt to turbulent waters
Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ocean. They can perceive cues that indicate turbulence, rapidly respond to regulate their behavior and actively adapt. Foundation grantees at ETH Zurich led by Roman Stocker have demonstrated for the first time how plankton cope with turbulence.
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What is the common term used to refer to "a relatively rapid change from one ecological condition to another?"

A. Eco-shift
B. Tipping point
C. Saturation
D. Critical transition