All Fools' Day

All day, and all of the night.

Are psychiatrists only fools and horses to be open all hours?

The UK government's proposal for 24-hour healthcare means effectively asking doctors to work more unsociable hours for relatively little financial gain. In our opinion, psychiatry is particularly vulnerable to deterioration owing to negotiations of the terms of the current Consultant Contract that ensures fewer antisocial hours, whereas without parallel appropriate internal team and intra-agenc...

Fishing for Fools

How big is the e¤ect of a few fools on market outcomes? We argue that in auctions, even a small share of overbidding behavioral agents have a large e¤ect, because the auction format “…shes”for the highest-bidding behavioral buyers. Through this …shing mechanism, behavioral agents disproportionately increase auction pro…ts. They also generate a large welfare loss by crowding out the demand of ra...

1 All in a Day ’ s Week

This paper presents a Frame Semantics analysis of calendric terms in English, Hebrew, and German, demonstrating the inextricable relationship between morphology and semantics. Here, we consider how Frame Semantics can be extended to morphological analysis. Traditionally, the morpheme has been taken as the smallest unit of meaning in linguistic analysis, with generative word formation rules gene...

Prickly feeling feet from standing all day

As you know, standing in place for an extended period of time can be much harder than it seems. In fact, standing in one spot for too long can lead to serious health consequences, such as poor blood circulation, hypertension, improper posture and spinal alignment, and swelling of the legs and feet. In the United States, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration [2] program (which functi...