440 research outputs found
sj-pdf-4-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 – Supplemental material for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-4-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies by Caitlin Spooner, Bella Vivat, Nicola White, Andrea Bruun, Gudrun Rohde, Pei Xing Kwek and Patrick Stone in Palliative Medicine</p
sj-pdf-2-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 – Supplemental material for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-2-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies by Caitlin Spooner, Bella Vivat, Nicola White, Andrea Bruun, Gudrun Rohde, Pei Xing Kwek and Patrick Stone in Palliative Medicine</p
Neuronal signature of spatial decision-making during navigation by freely moving rats using calcium imaging
No full textA challenge in spatial memory is understanding how place cell firing contributes to decision-making in navigation. A spatial recency task was created in which freely moving rats first became familiar with a spatial context over several days and thereafter were required to encode and then selectively recall one of three specific locations within it that was chosen to be rewarded that day. Calcium imaging was used to record from more than 1,000 cells in area CA1 of the hippocampus of five rats during the exploration, sample, and choice phases of the daily task. The key finding was that neural activity in the startbox rose steadily in the short period prior to entry to the arena and that this selective population cell firing was predictive of the daily changing goal on correct trials but not on trials in which the animals made errors. Single-cell and population activity measures converged on the idea that prospective coding of neural activity can be involved in navigational decision-making
sj-pdf-3-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 – Supplemental material for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-3-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies by Caitlin Spooner, Bella Vivat, Nicola White, Andrea Bruun, Gudrun Rohde, Pei Xing Kwek and Patrick Stone in Palliative Medicine</p
sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 – Supplemental material for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163231191148 for What outcomes do studies use to measure the impact of prognostication on people with advanced cancer? Findings from a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies by Caitlin Spooner, Bella Vivat, Nicola White, Andrea Bruun, Gudrun Rohde, Pei Xing Kwek and Patrick Stone in Palliative Medicine</p
Afghan Languages in a Larger Context of Central and South Asia
No full textThe pioneer Western investigator of the languages of Afghanistan, Georg Morgenstierne, who began his work in 1924, called Afghanistan linguistically “one of the most interesting countries on earth.” Linguistic work by local scholars began in the following generation. When one of us [Spooner] first met Dr. A. G. Ravan Farhadi (the author of Le Persan Parlé en Afghanistan, 1953) in Kabul in 1972, he announced that in the latest count the number of languages known in Afghanistan had reached 48
Letter from Wyman Spooner to Alden Partridge, 19 May 1823.
No full textDefends his publication of the "parody" in his newspaper, which Partridge found so offensive to himself and his Academy; will not release the name of the author unless Partridge intends to prosecute him for libel and take the case before a civil tribunal.See letter of 13 May 1823. Transcription by Alison Horner. Transcriptions may be subject to error
Yugoslavia - How redistribution hurts productivity in a socialist economy
No full textSocialism as practiced in Eastern Europe is characterized by massive income redistribution. This paper focuses on: (a) interfirm redistribution, consisting of taxing profitable firms in order to subsidize unprofitable ones; and (b) intrafirm redistribution, consisting of the compression of personal income differentials within a firm. The author constructs a theoretical model of redistribution of income as practiced in Yugoslav firms. Empirical results lead to the conclusions that efficiency in production could be improved at no cost if such redistribution were abolished. Furthermore, economies in which much of the GNP is redistributed through bargaining are also bound to be inefficient in distribution because some groups are less able to represent their common interests than others. Contrary to a common belief, socialist countries can not be praised on the count of equity either. This paper presents the estimating framework and the results of the empirical analysis obtained on the basis of a sample of Slovenian enterprises and a brief discussion of policy implications concludes the paper.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Inequality,Health Economics&Finance,Work&Working Conditions
Credit rationing, tenancy, productivity, and the dynamics of inequality
No full textWhy, when given the same resources, might productivity be lower on farms operated through sharecropping than on owner-run farms? The reason is that sharecropping, much less wage contracts, cannot overcome the divergence of interests between those who till the land and those who own it. Only land redistribution can do that. This paper presents notes toward a general equilibrium theory of land tenancy that suggest how changes in technology and publicly provided infrastructure can affect the equilibrium distribution of land in countries where credit is rationed. When credit to famers is rationed, changes in technology can increase the inequality in landholdings - with a long term increase in share tenancy. This is turn might reduce productivity, at least partially offsetting the initial improvements. The paper suggests that the development of effective rural financial institutions would reduce the likelihood of these negative effects on equality and productivity. It further cautions though that past attempts in creating such institutions have failed because of a lack of accountability and of enforcement procedures.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Growth,Municipal Financial Management
Changing patterns in vocational education
No full textOne of the long standing issues in education development has been productive job training in rapidly changing economies. The argument has been made that vocational secondary schools are not well equipped for this task. Although vocational and academic schooling often result in similar levels of education and employment, the higher costs of the vocational schooling makes it a less attractive alternative. In the past 23 years of Bank lending for vocational education and training, there has been a clear shift away from vocational secondary schools toward various forms of training, outside the formal education system. Although investment has been shifting into nonformal training, secondary education is in need of new directions. Diversified secondary schools have not provided that direction, leaving questions about how secondary schools might meet social objectives cost effectively.Tertiary Education,Teaching and Learning,Gender and Education,Primary Education,Curriculum&Instruction
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