Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 24, No. 4, 691–701 (2005) © 2005 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam.20133 The editors of JPAM have asked us to help readers make sense of the competing claims about the efficacy of the Special Suppleme...

One of the oldest arguments in the history of psychology is the Nature vs Nurture debate. Each of these sides have good points that it's really hard to decide whether a person's development is predisposed in his DNA, or a majority of it is influenced by this life experiences and his environment. As of now, we know that both nature and nurture play important roles in human development, but we ha...

The original studies of coronary balloon angioplasty performed by Andreas Gruentzig attempted to employ physiological guidance by measuring trans-stenotic gradients with over-the-wire angioplasty catheters. However, these catheters were of such large calibre that they contributed to the stenosis being assessed and in addition, measurements were made at rest as the importance of assessing functi...

What was intended to be a gen­ uine discussion o f p o lit ica l views quickly degenerated into a series of “ assassinations,” verbal rampages, attempts to get dates and random filibustor-style campaign strategies. In what could at times be consid­ ered a theatrical farce ra ther than a political debate, 10 tickets vying for Notre Dame student body presi­ d e n t and v ice p re s id e n t m e t...

Most medical journals do not allow simultaneous submission of articles to more than one journal. The need for sequential submission is an important factor in delaying the publication of research. We propose that journals should allow authors to submit to two or more journals at the same time. This would lead to greater competition among journals and shorten publication delay, which would benefi...

One of the oldest arguments in the history of psychology is the Nature vs Nurture debate. Each of these sides have good points that it's really hard to decide whether a person's development is predisposed in his DNA, or a majority of it is influenced by this life experiences and his environment. As of now, we know that both nature and nurture play important roles in human development, but we ha...

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How does language affect persuasion in real-world settings? We created and analyzed a novel corpus that is well-suited to answering this question: 69 transcripts of televised Oxford-style sociopolitical debates from Intelligence Squared U.S. (http://www.iq2us.org). This forum includes preand post-debate voting from a live audience, serving as native metric of persuasion. Using machine learning ...

Yeast apoptosis debate continues east, as a unicellular organism, would seem to benefit most from self-preservation. But yeast altruism, in the form of apoptosis, is a new-found, if controversial, field of study. Many doubt the validity of experiments supporting programmed cell death in yeast and call for better controls. In this issue, the debate continues with two new articles that suggest th...