Even though there has been a proliferation of e-society measures in recent years, analyses of the metrics of the “information society” are still far from responsive to the needs of many stakeholders and continue to suffer from a number of serious limitations. Issues in eight critical areas are briefly presented. They include: definition of the universe to be measured; definition of the objects ...

As the next generation of engineers, engineering students at the local level have specific views on what key issues should be addressed in the coming decades. Results of a University of Kansas survey completed by over 220 engineering students from sophomores to graduate students in seven engineering majors from five departments are reported, analyzed, and compared with the 14 Grand Challenges f...

SIR Your editorial in the March 1992 issue (1), is in my opinion something of a landmark and a positive, favourable one in the history of scholarly communication. In effect, you are urging the medical research community to take seriously a paper that leading peer review authorities rejected (for one reason or another) for publication. The peer review authority rejection might be characterised a...

Based on the notion of predictive influence functions, the paper develops multivariate limited translation hierarchical Bayes estimators of the normal mean vector which serve as a compromise between the hierarchical Bayes and maximum likelihood estimators. The paper demonstrates the superiority of the limited translation estimators over the usual hierarchical Bayes estimators in terms of the fr...

Online Publication Date: 01 July 2007 To cite this Article: Mondloch, Catherine J., Pathman, Thanujeni, Maurer, Daphne, Grand, Richard Le and de Schonen, Scania , (2007) 'The composite face effect in six-year-old children: Evidence of adult-like holistic face processing', Visual Cognition, 15:5, 564 577 To link to this article: DOI: 10.1080/13506280600859383 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506...

We updated annual mean reconstructions of near-Earth interplanetary conditions and (signed) open solar flux F S for the past 186 years. Furthermore, we added observations cycle 24 to refine regressions improved allowance orthogardenhose folded (a.k.a., switchback) heliospheric from studies using strahl electrons. also made gardenhose angle magnetic field. used both multiple regression with fiel...

Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health—a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to ...

Unprecedented attention is focused on global health, with a four-fold increase in development assistance in the last 15 years and the scope of global health expanding beyond infectious disease to include chronic disease and health systems strengthening. As the global impact of health is more widely understood, it has become a crucial element of international relations, economic development, and...

Abstract Introduction: Social capital has potential effects on reproductive health and childbearing behaviors. However, there is limited information about its relationship with childbearing. Objective: This study aimed to explore female healthcare providers' experiences of childbearing based on the social capital theory. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was conducted from July ...

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