Why Should They?

They Not Only CAN But They SHOULD: Why Undergraduates Should Provide Basic IL Instruction

Introduction Academic libraries are behind the curve in leveraging the advantages of peer learning dynamics for basic information literacy instruction.1 With a handful of documented exceptions, librarians have chosen to cling jealously to the lectern instead of seizing optimal pedagogical opportunities of letting peers teach peers. This, in spite of decades of research on the cognitive and affe...

Why do some people look older than they should?

BACKGROUND As a component of studies on biological age, the age of subjects from their appearance (perceived age) was estimated. OBJECTIVE To determine the factors associated with looking older. METHODS Cross sectional study of London civil servants (318 men, 129 women) in the Department of the Environment study. Perceived age was recorded by an observer and the difference between this age ...

Currency crisis early warning systems: Why they should be dynamic

Traditionally, financial crisis EarlyWarning Systems (EWSs) have relied onmacroeconomic leading indicatorswhen forecasting the occurrence of such events. This paper extends such discrete-choice EWSs by taking the persistence of the crisis phenomenon into account. The dynamic logit EWS is estimated using an exact maximum likelihood estimation method in both a country-by-country and a panel frame...

Exemplary medicine: why doctors should practise what they preach.

RSS feeds: what are they and why should I care?

Really simple syndication (RSS) feeds and aggregators are indispensable tools for clinicians who need to stay abreast of the latest clinical research, public health publications, and economic factors that might affect their practice. RSS enables clinicians with a compatible browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, or other desktop aggregator, to view headlines and journal article titles from dozens or...