Financial Statistics for the United States and the Crisis: What did They get Right, What did They Miss, and how Should They Change?

Did they get what they came for? Evaluating teachers’ learning

What did they know, and when did they know it?

voted to ease monetary policy, which was widely reported as a lowering of interest rates. Although some interest rates fell with the Fed' s action, the declines were generally small, and over succeeding months market interest rates tended to rise. The yield on the Treasury' s 10-year note, for example, which had been 5.63 percent on January 30, and which closed at 5.60 percent on January 31, st...

What did Kramers and Kronig do and how did they do it?

Over time the account of how the Kramers–Kronig (dispersion) relations between the real and imaginary parts of response functions were derived in 1926 and 1927 has been transmogrified into anecdotes about what might have been done but was not. Although Kramers obtained both members of a pair of relations, Kronig obtained only one. Both authors appealed to specific models of an atomic gas rather...

How did they do that?

The study by DiDiodato and McAthur describes work to improve the care of patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia. They compare length of stay of patients after the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship programme that was initially led by an infectious diseasetrained pharmacist and then transitioned to a ward-based pharmacist. To estimate the impact on length of ...

How to Get Them and What Do They Look Likej

Das diesem Bericht zugrundeliegende Forschungsvorhaben wurde mit Mitteln des Bundesministers f ur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie unter dem F orderkennzeichen 01 IV 102 H/0 und 01 IV 102 F/4 gef ordert. Die Verantwortung f ur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei den Autoren. ABSTRACT Automatic dialog systems tested with naive users are often confronted with special speaking style...