There is No Try: Sustainable Healthcare Requires Reining in Spending Overshoots

Examining Interprofessional Collaboration: There is no “I” in “Healthcare Team”

Long ago, someone said, “It takes a village to raise a child.” The same concept can be applied to healthcare. The collaboration of healthcare professionals has been proven to increase positive patient outcomes and improve quality of care. By working together, collaborative efforts across multiple healthcare modalities serves to paint a more complete picture of the patient and their healthcare o...

Do or Do Not, There Is No Try: User Engagement May Not Improve Security Outcomes

Computer security problems often occur when there are disconnects between users’ understanding of their role in computer security and what is expected of them. To help users make good security decisions more easily, we need insights into the challenges they face in their daily computer usage. We built and deployed the Security Behavior Observatory (SBO) to collect data on user behavior and mach...

There is no lexicon!

0. Introduction Within generative linguistics, underlying representations have been a sine qua non. Such representations have been thought to encode what is unpredictable or not governed by rules. Within Optimality Theory (henceforth OT), even though the rules are virtually gone, this view continues. The function GEN and EVAL pair an underlying representation with an optimal output. I argue aga...

There is no financial crisis so deep that cannot be dealt with by public spending

Sustainable Social Spending

The paper discusses a number of threats to the financial sustainability of social spending: increased internationalization of national economies, gradually higher relative costs of producing a number of human services, the “graying” of the population, slower productivity growth in the private sector, low employment rates, and various types of disincentive effects related to the welfare state it...