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In this article the authors respond to a comment on their article "An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber's Driver-Partners in the United States," in the 2017 issue of the journal. Topics include the criticism based on the use of outdated data and selective reporting of findings, and the invitation language makes no mention of a connection between the survey and Uber Technologies.

Uber, the ride-sharing company launched in 2010, has grown at an exponential rate. Using both survey and administrative data, the authors provide the first comprehensive analysis of the labor market for Uber’s driver-partners. Drivers appear to be attracted to the Uber platform largely because of the flexibility it offers, the level of compensation, and the fact that earnings per hour do not vary much based on the number of hours worked. Uber’s driver-partners are more similar in terms of their age and education to the general workforce than to taxi drivers and chauffeurs. Most of Uber’s driver-partners had full- or part-time employment before joining Uber, and many continue in those positions after starting to drive with the Uber platform, which makes the flexibility to set their own hours especially valuable. Drivers often cite the desire to smooth fluctuations in their income as one of their reasons for partnering with Uber. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the need to transform the traditional content-based pedagogy to be able to teach the multilingual learners in the U.S. The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) cites the importance to redefine the professional identity of teachers to be able to reconceptualize the classroom approach. The change in the classroom teaching intends to meet the goal of the concept of the Next America. Next America has been defined as the capacity of students to understand several languages considering the multiple intermixed language background of students and the various language used in the Worldwide websites. The changes responds to the increasing linguistic diversity of students and the globalization.

Despite ongoing evidence that one quarter of HIV-infected people in the United States are unaware of their infection, widespread implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 1993 recommendations regarding routine inpatient HIV testing has not occurred. This study compares two HIV testing strategies: the initial phase of inpatient HIV testing (1999–2001) utilized a physician-referral–based system. The second phase (2001–2003) included the first 2 years' experience with having trained HIV counselors directly approach inpatients regarding their willingness to undergo voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) without physician referral. This latter phase was prompted by a patient attitude survey demonstrating favorable responses to unsolicited approaches by staff regarding HIV testing. Barriers to implementing the latter strategy are discussed and initial experience with rapid HIV testing on this service is also presented. Referral-based testing yielded 2.3 patient referrals (6.4% of total admissions) resulting in 1.2 HIV tests and 0.7 counseling only sessions per day. Nonreferral based testing resulted 6.2 HIV tests and another 3.0 counseling-only sessions per day. HIV VCT on an inpatient service is feasible but challenging. Most patients respond favorably to being approached for VCT. Routinely offering HIV tests to inpatients yields higher testing rates than physician referral-based systems and increases the number of patients who know their HIV status. Recommendations for implementing routing HIV testing on an inpatient service are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the two disciplines of public health and law enforcement and how they cooperate to protect public health and safety. The collaboration of the Los Angeles Police Department's HAZMAT (hazardous materials) team with local and state health departments and other public service organizations; The roles of public health and criminal justice in violence prevention; Examples of collaboration, including the National Violence Against Women Survey and the National Violent Death Reporting System; The public health issue of gun violence which is addressed by the Office of the United States Attorney's Project Safe Neighborhoods program; The responsibilities of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in public health threats; The need for emergency and disaster preparedness training.

The article highlights the 12 drugs that illustrate the wide-ranging impact of essential genomics data to drug discovery in the U.S. It states that the identification of BLYS has led to the development of atacicept, a soluble BLYS receptor that has also been tested in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Meanwhile, the TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) has led to the development of a recombinant protein therapeutic and dulanermin.