District handicap teams: impediments to progress.

VIEW District handicap teams in England : 1983 - 8

The need to study a wide range of attributes and functions when assessing a disabled child has long been recognised. The concept of the multidisciplinary investigation of children with behaviour disorders led to the opening of child guidance clinics first in the United States and then in this country in the 1920s. Paediatricians in the 1940s and 1950s were able to pay more attention to the comp...

Rural district hospitals: ambulance services, staff attitudes, and other impediments to healthcare delivery.

Why ‘‘isms’’ Are Evil: Theory, Epistemology, and Academic Sects as Impediments to Understanding and Progress

This essay probes tensions between our professional practices and the quality of our professional output in the field of international studies. We organize ourselves into academic ‘‘sects’’ that engage in selfaffirming research and then wage theological debates between academic religions. This occurs at both the level of theory and epistemology. Unfortunately, this academic sectarianism produce...

Missing Information Impediments to Learnability

To what extent is learnability impeded when information is missing in learning instances? We present relevant known results and concrete open problems, in the context of a natural extension of the PAC learning model that accounts for arbitrarily missing information.

Stochastic impediments to biological diversification

Goal To devise a theoretical framework for understanding the impacts of demographic and environmental variation on evolutionary branching.