In a controlled experiment on the effects of frequent and local digital annotations, 137 volunteers covered an online course at 3 conditions: no/free/question-based electronic annotations. Results show no difference in performance between groups. However, analyses conducted within treatments suggest positive impacts on performance when annotation rates are taken into consideration, and coupled ...

In a controlled experiment on the effects of frequent and local digital annotations, 137 volunteers covered an online course at 3 conditions: no/free/question-based electronic annotations. Results show no difference in performance between groups. However, analyses conducted within treatments suggest positive impacts on performance when annotation rates are taken into consideration, and coupled ...

The project of an electronic library is also a significant step towards computerization of services of the Parliamentary Library. This library shall contain complete texts of parliamentary prints (i.e. bills, including explanations and decisions), shorthand minutes (i.e. verbatim minutes of all sessions and all voting) and other parliamentary documents from 1861 until now in an electronic form....

The debate in the Lords on the Hospital Service, held on April 26th roved over a wide field but the mental health service had its full share of attention. Lord Stonham, who had initiated the debate, referred to the "disastrous speech" made by the Minister at the Annual Conference ?f the National Association for Mental Health and the forecast that in fifteen years only half the present number of...

Members of the Turkish Parliament (MPs) earn a base salary. In addition, they earn a bonus, if they are retired from the labor force. A law enacted in January 2012 pegged this bonus to 18% of the salary of the President of Turkey. As a result, salaries of the retirement eligible MPs increased substantially. Using a data set of MPs who served in the Parliament between 2007 and 2015, and exploiti...

The first-everCardiovascular Health Week was an awareness-raising activity on the theme ‘Mind Your Heart – for a Heart Healthy Europe’. The initiative was organized by the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Heart Group, under the auspices of the European Parliament and supported by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Heart Network (EHN). The MEP Heart Group held mee...

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is an integrative, interpersonal model of therapy predicated on a radically social concept of self, developed over recent years in the UK by Anthony Ryle. A CAT-based model of psychotic disorder has been developed much more recently based on encouraging early experience in this area. The model describes and accounts for many psychotic experiences and symptoms in...