If You Are Poor, It is Better to be Rural

Is it better to be injured when you are pregnant?

THERE HAS BEEN MUCH INVESTIGATION into the differential effects of sex hormones on the response to injury and hemorrhage. The preponderance of experimental reports have demonstrated that the hormonal milieu, in particular, increased levels of 17b-estradiol and decreased testosterone, affects cell-mediated immunity and organ system tolerance of shock through complex receptor-mediated and cell-sp...

Modifying Pain Perception: Is It Better to Be Hypnotizable or Feel That You Are Hypnotized?

Two studies investigated the effect of hypnotic susceptibility (study 1) and the label ‘hypnosis’ (study 2) on the perception of a noxious stimulus (cold pressor). Suggestions for pain control during hypnosis are highly effective but the mechanisms of this effect and the role of the hypnotic induction in achieving pain relief remain uncertain. Study 1 demonstrated increasing pain experience wit...

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Trade Liberalisation is Good for You if You are Rich

This paper investigates the relationship between trade policy and growth using a dynamic panel regression model with GMM estimates for data on 44 developing countries over 1980-1999. Trade policy is captured by measures of tariffs, import and export taxes. Typically, the average effects of changes in such policy variables have been investigated. However, from a policy perspective, the different...

If You are Happy and Know It . . . Tweet

Extracting sentiment from Twitter data is one of the fundamental problems in Social Media Analytics. The length constraint of Twitter, an average of about six words per message, renders determining the positive or negative sense of a tweet difficult even for a human judge. In this work we present a general framework for single tweet (in contrast with batches of tweets) sentiment analysis which ...