NICE work: Level playing field requires transparency

NICE work: how NICE decides what we should pay for.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is responsible for providing guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health in the UK. Fundamental to the decision-making process is the need to make recommendations based on the best available evidence with input from all stakeholders in a transparent and collaborative manner. 1 Health tec...

Gender identity and sport: is the playing field level?

This review examines gender identity issues in competitive sports, focusing on the evolution of policies relating to female gender verification and transsexual participation in sport. The issues are complex and continue to challenge sport governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, as they strive to provide a safe environment in which female athletes may compete fairly and ...

Selecting tomorrow's doctors--not a level playing field.

Empowering Shakespeare’s Sister: Parental Leave and the Level Playing Field

Paid family leave remains among the most commonly discussed public policy proposals for alleviating the work-family stresses experienced by increasing numbers of dual-career parents. The passage of the nation’s first paid leave bill in California in 2002 provides momentum to leave policy proponents. This paper reports empirical findings from the Family, Gender and Tenure Project at the Universi...

A Level Playing-Field: Perceptibility and Inflection in English Compounds

Abstract To explain why English compounds generally avoid internal inflectional suffixation (e.g. key-chain rather than keys-chain), linguists have often invoked the Level Ordering Hypothesis (Siegel 1979), i.e. that particular types of morphology, in this case inflectional suffixation, are derivationally ordered after compounding. However, a broad range of counterexamples and conceptual object...