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Forecast Error Variance Decompositions with Local Projections
No full textWe propose and study properties of an estimator of the forecast error variance decomposition in the local projections framework. We find for empirically relevant sample sizes that, after being bias-corrected with bootstrap, our estimator performs well in simulations. We also illustrate the workings of our estimator empirically for monetary policy and productivity shocks. KEYWORDS: Forecast error variance decomposition; Local projections.</p
Collaborative e-support for lifelong learning
No full textTechnological developments facilitating lifelong learning have already been the focus of a number of papers in the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) during the 36 years since its inaugural edition in 1970, notably in the 2004 special edition on ‘Technology and Lifelong Learning’ edited by Rob Koper (2004). This 2006 special edition takes forward that earlier work, extending and updating it, building on the themes of earlier years. In a content analysis of the journal in 2006, Latchem, citing an earlier study by Hawkridge (1999), noted that the ‘...original vision for BJET’ of inaugural editor Norman MacKenzie (2005) has remained relatively unchanged over more than three decades. BJET continues to be ‘...concerned with the theory, application and development of educational technology and communications’ (Latchem, 2006, p. 504) and has included an impressive range of theoretical and empirical research papers and reviews. However, during that time, as Latchem noted, only 3% of BJET papers were concerned with colleges, industry and other learning and skills sector providers (p. 507). Some other learning technology journals, for example, ALT-J, have previously focused on e-learning in the learning and skills sector (see, eg, Jameson and Conole, 2000) but there is a considerable need for further work to be done in this area. This issue therefore builds upon the formative work begun in 2004, to address this imbalance, by focusing on lifelong learning and the use of educational technology
DKT_Supplemental_material - Responder Analysis of Daikenchuto Treatment for Constipation in Poststroke Patients: A Subanalysis of a Randomized Control Trial
No full textDKT_Supplemental_material for Responder Analysis of Daikenchuto Treatment for Constipation in Poststroke Patients: A Subanalysis of a Randomized Control Trial by Ryutaro Arita, Takehiro Numata, Shin Takayama, Taku Obara, Akiko Kikuchi, Minoru Ohsawa, Akifumi Suzuki, Takashi Yokota, Mizue Kusaba, Nobuo Yaegashi and Tadashi Ishii in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics</p
Drug Assisted Sexualised Assault in the UK: A Feminist, Discursive - Narrative Exploration of the Experiences of Women and Professionals
No full textThis research was concerned with drug assisted sexualised assault(hereafter referred to as DASA*)in the UK. Sexual assault has been
highlighted by the Home Office as a top priority and a recent consultation document(Home Office, 2000)recognises that different forms of rape
have come to the attention of the public over the last ten years, for example, date rape, drug rape and male rape. However studies relating to DASA in the UK are extremely limited and therefore relatively little is known empirically or conceptually about the phenomenon. The research
had a number of aims: 1) To explore the discourses within the accounts of professionals when discussing their experiences of providing services to survivors of DASA. 2) To explore how survivors perceive their experiences of being subjected to DASA. 3) To explore how discourses
around rape and DASA relate to survivors’ accounts of their experiences after the assault. 4) To contribute towards the development of a
conceptual understanding of DASA in terms of experience and ‘recovery’. A total of ten interviews were carried out with individual women about their understandings and experiences of DASA. The sample included survivors, policewomen, counsellors and managers of sexual assault
services. A discursive analysis based on a ‘macro approach’ (Foucault, 1972) was carried out on the interviews with professionals. The analysis
highlighted the ways in which the ‘tellability’ (Livesey, 2002) of DASA may be undermined by a number of current dominant discourses reflected in
the accounts of professionals. Analysis of the interviews with survivors took a narrative approach in that the interviews were analysed for the ways in which women storied themselves within their accounts (Taylor, Gilligan and Sullivan, 1996). There were a number of ways in which the survivors interviewed seemed to be constrained by dominant cultural resources relating to sexualised violence. These survivors were not,
however, constituted by these dominant resources but rather sought to resist them in a number of ways. This provides a challenge to discourses
around sexualised violence as having a permanently devastating impact on women’s lives, suggesting that women can and do move on to regain
control over their lives after having been subjected by men to DASA.
* The author was reluctant to abbreviate drug assisted sexualised assault to DASA - to
do so may contribute to the ‘hidden’ nature of this form of violence against women.
However the decision was made to use the DASA abbreviation in order to improve the
readability of the text
