(this issue) have documented a situation that naturally concerns all of us, the extent to which the journal Cognitive Scienc,e and the annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society represent the multidisciplinary breadth of the field of cog-nitive science. As editors of the Society's journal, organizers of the 1998 meeting of the Society, and members of the committee of the Cognitive Governi...

Health economics has experienced a substantial rise within the healthcare industry over the past few years. Several disciplines have developed new techniques to evaluate the economic impact of pharmaceuticals in clinical care. Clinicians, pharmacists, economists, epidemiologists, and operations researchers have contributed to this field. Given the economic reality that resources are limited and...

DEŜSIGNERS of programs for children, in deciding upon goals, objectives, means of implementation, and evaluation techniques, have obviously used various sets of guidelines. Disciplines such as history, sociology, and political science traditionally have influenced the choices made in program planning and implementation. The ASCD Early Childhood Education Council, however, decided to examine pro...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to identify the factors perceived by surgeons that promote surgery as an attractive or unattractive career choice for today's graduates. In addition, it examined whether the perspectives of surgeons in different professional situations converges. The content of work, contextual work conditions, and calling to this job are discussed in the context of choosing...

Sleep loss appears to affect the capacity for performance and access to energetic resources. This paper reviews research examining the physical substrates referred to as resource capacity, the role of sleep in protecting that capacity and the reaction of the system as it attempts to respond with effort to overcome the limitations on capacity caused by sleep loss. Effort is the extent to which a...

Medical education practice is more often the result of tradition, ritual, culture, and history than of any easily expressed theoretical or conceptual framework. The authors explain the importance and nature of the role of theory in the design and conduct of graduate medical education. They outline three groups of theories relevant to graduate medical education: bioscience theories, learning the...

Abstract We map the current state of parliamentary and legislative studies through a survey 218 scholars bibliometric analysis 25 years publications in three prominent sub-field journals. identify two groupings researchers, quantitative methods, rational choice-favouring grouping qualitative interpretivism-favouring with UK focus. Upon closer examination, these share similar views about challen...

Many philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists defend the claim that rational choice theory can provide the basis for a unified and comprehensive theory of social behaviour. Rational choice models are theoretically generalized to explain the behaviour studied by nearly all social science disciplines, from political science to psychology and sociology. Specific applications include go...

Environmental economists have long used surveys to gather information about people’s preferences. This is particularly true in the field of non-market valuation, where techniques such as contingent valuation, choice modelling and the travel cost method invariably employ some form of survey instrument. A recent innovation in survey methodology has been the advent of web-based surveys. While popu...