This article examines the history of archaeology in Latvia during Soviet occupation (1940–1941; 1944–1991), trying to understand consequences brought field by single-party led experiment communism. The research is based on archival studies and uses historical method, source criticism historiography. Author explains nature prescribed theoretical methodological guidelines as well actual implicati...

Introduction Budget dynamics may sound as a contradiction in terms to scholars familiar with Wildavsky and colleagues' seminal work on public budgeting (Wildavsky 1964). As stated by Davis, Dempster, and Wildavsky (1966, 529): " This year's budget is based on last year's budget, with special attention given to a narrow range of increases or decreases. " For some years this simple model was cons...

The DEL-technique, a proportionate reduction in error measure, developed by Hildebrand, Laing and Rosenthal, has been applied and portrayed as a promising prediction analysis technique to evaluate theory on the basis of cross-classification data, though it was controversial at its birth in the early 70s. According to the opponents, Goodman and Kruskal, the interpretation of DEL as a proportiona...

A Cochrane systematic review on immediate-release methylphenidate for adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was withdrawn from the Cochrane Library on 26 May 2016 after substantial criticism of its methods and flawed conclusions. Retraction of scientific papers on this basis is unusual but can be necessary. We provide a summary of the criticism that led to the withdrawal. ...

I propose dealing almost exclusively with some methodological aspects of the National Nutrition Survey from the narrowly statistical point of view, leaving statistical inferences and general comments on the results to other speakers. The Central Statistics Office was privileged to collaborate with the Department of Health, but not in so intimate a way as to render it unbecoming for us to congra...

In a recent commentary, S R Benatar criticised the debates over organ donation and kidney selling for being located within a "narrow and inadequate framework". Benatar levels four charges against those who engage in the current organs debate: that they myopically focus on saving lives; that they accept the dominance of market orientated approaches to health care; that they reify individualism, ...

The current study utilized a prospective design to examine the associations of self-criticism and self-oriented perfectionism with goal progress. The results corroborated previous findings demonstrating a negative association between self-criticism and self-reported goal progress when self-oriented perfectionism was controlled, and a positive association between self-oriented perfectionism and ...

Our response to Badecker’s paper (this issue) is organized as follows: First, we review the theoretical framework and the findings of our original report (Canseco-Gonzalez, Shapiro, Zurif, & Baker, 1990). With this as background, we deal with each of Badecker’s criticisms. It has been persuasively argued that the mind is modular in characterthat the specific properties and principles that figur...

Attachment anxiety is expected to be positively associated with dependence and self-criticism. However, attachment avoidance is expected to be negatively associated with dependence but positively associated with self-criticism. Both dependence and self-criticism are expected to be related to depressive symptoms. Data were analyzed from 424 undergraduate participants at a large Midwestern univer...