Petr Hájek is a renowned Czech logician, whose record in mathematical logic spans half a century. His results leave a permanent imprint in all of his research areas, which can be roughly delimited as set theory, arithmetic, fuzzy logic and reasoning under uncertainty, and information retrieval; some of his results have enjoyed successful applications. He has, throughout his career, worked at th...

This article examines how research productivity, administrative service, and teaching affect reputational capital in the market for academic economists. Also, we investigate the issue of the durability of reputational capital, estimating the penalties associated with gaps in research output. Our results reveal that (1) the market makes a distiniction between the quantity and the quality of an i...

Dissociative identity disorder is a rare diagnosis, although people currently with a diagnosis of psychosis may in fact be experiencing what is associated with the disorder. This article is co-authored by a nurse and a person who has lived with alters (multiple personalities) for nearly all of her life. Because of the rarity of the diagnosis, there is much misunderstanding and ignorance among l...

Acknowledgments: Parts of this conference background paper were modified from a conference background paper entitled “Rural Health Professionals” that was presented at the Rural Health Research Agenda Setting Conference hosted by the National Rural Health Association, Washington, DC, August 13, 2000 (authors: Drs. Gary Hart, Edward Salsberg and Debra Phillips). I acknowledge the contributions o...

This paper presents a model in which agents are distinguished by their characteristics, exchange of goods requires communication between firms and their customers, and agents with similar characteristics communicate more effectively. This setup delivers a body of testable implications about the matching of workers to jobs, the associated wages and product prices, and the manner in which job ass...

I joined the Telecommunications Engineering School [1], University of Vigo [2], as an assistant professor in 1996, after having a teaching assistantship position in University of Valladolid [3] (1992-1996). I am a member of the Networking Laboratory [4], a center conducting teaching and research in the broad field of computer networking, information coding and communications engineering, and af...

Tools for Practice articles in Canadian Family Physician (CFP) are adapted from articles published on the Alberta College of Family Physicians (ACFP) website, summarizing medical evidence with a focus on topical issues and practice-modifying information. The ACFP summaries and the series in CFP are coordinated by Dr G. Michael Allan, and the summaries are co-authored by at least 1 practising fa...

This virtual special issue marks International Women's Day 2021 by drawing together 15 papers published in Spatial Economic Analysis over the past decade female authors and co-authors. It highlights wide range of ground-breaking research these their collaborators, growth female-authored publications time, as well geographical career-stage diversity within field. The include agenda-setting direc...

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