Raising the gold standard

Gold Standard Gravity

This paper provides striking confirmation of the restrictions of the structural gravity model of trade. Structural forces predicted by theory explain 95% of the variation of the fixed effects used to control for them in the recent gravity literature, fixed effects that in principle could reflect other forces. This validation opens avenues to inferring unobserved sectoral activity and multilater...

Raising the standard: practice guidelines and consumer participation.

Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly affecting the quality of health care, and have the potential to affect the availability of health care options for consumers. Deciding what guidelines will cover, how they will be developed and what they will say are, therefore, issues in which consumers have a considerable stake. While there is a growing acknowledgement of the need to involve consu...

Raising the standard of surgical reporting to increase its impact.

The Gold Standard in Corpus Annotation

Trustworthy corpora are necessary for training and meaningful evaluation of algorithms which use annotations. These standard collections are called Gold Standard Corpora (GSC). However the construction of GSC is a laborious and time-consuming process and size, quality and most of all availability of task-specific GSC directly influence the development of machine learning based natural language ...

Urea – the gold standard ingredient for emollients?

The many benefits of urea as a topical treatment for skin conditions have long been known particularly as an additive to emollient preparations. In podiatry, we have observed a renaissance with an increase in new products coming to market promoted as containing urea. Recent research has begun to unravel its biochemical benefits in treating dry skin conditions. This article reviews the chemical ...