ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

Antidepressants in the postpartum period: additional considerations.

Sample sizes for usability studies: additional considerations.

Recently, Virzi (1992) presented data that support three claims regarding sample sizes for usability studies: (1) observing four or five participants will allow a usability practitioner to discover 80% of a product's usability problems, (2) observing additional participants will reveal fewer and fewer new usability problems, and (3) more severe usability problems are easier to detect with the f...

The Pill vs. the Sword: Additional Considerations; Comment on “The Pill Is Mightier Than the Sword”

In this paper, I present additional information for policy-makers and researchers to consider in response to the view proposed by Potts et al that “the pill is mightier than the sword.” I identify states with both high rates of terrorism and a youth bulge and discuss correlates of both these societal characteristics. The research examined supports the view that factors other than access to fami...

Country attractiveness for offshoring and offshore outsourcing: additional considerations

In this article, we review aspects relating to the attractiveness of India for information technology offshore – outsourcing. Our starting point is that, indeed, India will remain competitive in the short-medium term. However, more importantly, we move on to argue that country attractiveness is becoming a less important issue. We consider an alternative approach to analyze country attractive in...

Positive Interest Rates and Yields: Additional Serious Considerations*

Over the past quarter century, mathematical modeling of the behavior of the interest rate and the resulting yield curve has been a topic of considerable interest. In the continuous-time modeling of stock prices, one only need specify the diffusion term, because the assumption of risk-neutrality for pricing identifies the expected change. But this is not true for yield curve modeling. This paper...