Scientific Reproducibility, Human Error, and Public Policy

Asbestos: scientific developments and implications for public policy.

Asbestos is a commercial term for a group of fibrous minerals often associated with the development of pulmonary interstitial fibrosis (asbestosis), lung cancer, and malignant mesothelioma in occupationally exposed individuals. The pathogenicity of different forms of asbestos varies--long, thin amphibole fibers are most pathogenic, particularly in the induction of mesothelioma. Available data d...

نقد و تحلیل کتاب « Public Finance and Public Policy»

بحث درباره جایگاه مطلوب بخش عمومی (دولت) در اقتصاد از دیرباز مورد توجه مکاتب گوناگون فکری قرار داشته و به علت اهمیت وافر وارد برنامه‌های رسمی دانشگاه‌ها در سراسر جهان شده است. هدف این مقاله تحلیل و نقد کتاب درسی مالیه عمومی و سیاست عمومی تألیف جاناتان گروبر است که از جدیدترین کتاب‌های درسی این حوزه به شمار می‌رود و هم اکنون در تعداد قابل توجهی از دانشگاه‌های مطرح جهان به عنوان کتاب درسی اصلی اق...

Public Policy, Human Instincts, and Economic Growth

Contextual sensitivity in scientific reproducibility.

In recent years, scientists have paid increasing attention to reproducibility. For example, the Reproducibility Project, a large-scale replication attempt of 100 studies published in top psychology journals found that only 39% could be unambiguously reproduced. There is a growing consensus among scientists that the lack of reproducibility in psychology and other fields stems from various method...

Reproducibility Analysis of Scientific Workflows

Scientific workflows are efficient tools for specifying and automating compute and data intensive in-silico experiments. An important challenge related to their usage is their reproducibility. In order to make it reproducible, many factors have to be investigated which can influence and even prevent this process: the missing descriptions and samples; the missing provenance data about the enviro...