The accelerating progress in science with the active role of the communication media – mainly the web – make person in front of a difficult task, in finding appropriate information during a brief time. In a narrower context, many researches were created in the expertise retrieval domain, as an interesting and complicated task for the scientific community, in face of this huge amount of data sca...

We explored the feasibility and usefulness of collecting peer sociometric data on a sample of children from across southeastern New England who were being followed in a community-based longitudinal study. Applying what has typically been a school-focused research methodology to this child-focused follow-up highlighted challenges faced by applied researchers wanting to make use of this powerful ...

This paper presents optimal tests for violations of the moment conditions in the GMM framework New tests are presented for the validity of the overidentifying restric tions The usefulness of these tests is highlighted by a simple AR example with insta bility in the moment conditions For this example the J test in Hansen does not reject the overidentifying restrictions but the rejection by a par...

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We sought to explore the relationship between type of psychopathology and consent bias. Using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale we assessed a group of 48 forensic psychiatric inpatients. These patients were later independently approached by a researcher who attempted to get their consent for a study on the validity of self-reported criminal behavior. Thirty agreed to participate and 18 did not...