Many production activities require cooperation between agents in an organization, and incentive alignment may take advantage of complementarities in such activities. This paper investigates such a possibility by examining two education policies that were implemented in New York City: a grade retention policy that incentivizes students and an accountability scheme that incentivizes schools. I em...

“IS IT TOO MUCH TO HOPE that a system of education may some day be devised, which shall give results, in terms of human development, commensurate with the time, money, energy and devotion expended? In such a system of education it may be that mescaline or some other chemical substance may play a part by making it possible for young people to “taste and see” what they have learned about at secon...

Despite their central role in the electoral process, constituency agents have been largely overlooked by political scientists and this article seeks to rectify the omission. It sketches the origins and development of the role of agent from the late nineteenth century and suggests that a serious re-think of the role took place in the 1990s. Survey-based evidence about the social characteristics ...

A novel synthetic approach to functionalized indolo[2,3-a]quinolizidines is developed via an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalyzed annulation of cyclic β-enamino esters with enals . This methodology offers a pathway for quick and efficient construction of an indolo[2,3-a]quinolizidine skeleton which is a core structure of many natural products with diverse bioactivities.

result of multicenter study showing efficacy of sildenafil in men with MS. [16] Palmer J, Kaplan W, Firlit C. Erectile dysfunction in spina bifida is treatable. Lancet 1999;354:125-6. Small group of men with spina bifida successfully treated with sildenafil.References continued ►

CORRIGENDUM Remineralization Strategies in Oral Hygiene: A Position Paper of Italian Society of Oral Hygiene Sciences Consuelo Sanavia , Marco Tatullo, Jessica Bassignani, Silvia Cotellessa, Giulia Fantozzi, Giovanna Acito, Alessia Iommiello, Lorella Chiavistelli, Silvia Sabatini and Gianna Maria Nardi Italian Society of Oral Hygiene Sciences-S.I.S.I.O. working group, Pisa, Italy 2 Calabrodenta...

One of the most used measures for evaluation of teaching quality is teaching effectiveness. Teaching effectiveness (TE) is defined and evaluated in several ways such as teacher’s ability to effect personal change and development in their students, their effectiveness in facilitating good academic work in their students and by students rating of their teachers (Shevlin et al, 2000). Increasing a...

When a word processing system became available to me, I began using it in my work, and I noticed that my papers and the ways I went about composing were changing, sometimes with pleasing results and sometimes not. Increased revising probably had made my final products better, but I was bothered that I didn't feel "finished" with many texts-I submitted them with the nagging feeling that more imp...