9 Black, white or green: ‘race’, gender and avatars within the therapeutic space M A Graber , A D Graber 13 Royal ruptures: Caroline of Ansbach and the politics of illness in the 1730s E D Jones 18 Telling the Patient’s Story: using theatre training to improve case presentation skills R R Hammer , J D Rian , J K Gregory , J M Bostwick , C Barrett Birk , L Chalfant , P D Scanlon , D K Hall-Flavi...

Too little is known about human functioning amidst chronic adversity. We addressed that need by studying adult Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), a population that has experienced longstanding economic and political hardships. Fourteen group interviews were conducted in February, 2010 in Arabic by local fieldworkers with 68 participants representing the main stratificat...

The paper examines the processes underlying economic fluctuations by investigating the volatility moderation of U.S. economy in the early 1980’s. We decompose the volatility decline using a dynamic factor framework into a common stochastic trend, common transitory component and idiosyncratic components. We find that the moderation of business cycle was a result of the moderation in transitory a...

since the third and fourth centuries ah, “the theory of moderation” which has greek origination and is based on aristotle's ideas in ethics, gradually entered islamic ethical literature and many scholars, such as ibnmiskawayhand khawajehnasir al-din tusi, found their ethical works on this idea. according to this theory, the virtue is complying with “the mean” in every action and avoiding t...

the council of areopagus as a judicial establishment monitored the proper implementation of rule of law in the polis (city-state) of athens. while, the main responsibility and duty of areopagus was to adjudicate the cases of the most serious crimes, it intervened in the political affairs as well. eventually, after long-lasting political conflicts between athenian oligarchy and democracy, this e...

We resurrect the question if improved business practices contributed to increased macroeconomic stability since the 1980s – the Great Moderation. While previous studies on the issue are limited to examining inventory management, we analyse the role of better supply chain management on enhancing firms’ ability to coordinate their production. By investigating ordering and backordering behaviour i...

Investigating the fit of an information technology to a user’s task, known as task-technology fit (TTF), is a frequent focus of HCI/MIS research. In such research, “fit as moderation”, one of Venkatraman’s (1989) six conceptualizations of fit, is common. This conceptualization assumes two variables, e.g., task and technology, and an outcome variable. Task and technology, however, have multiple ...

I revisit the Great Inflation and the Great Moderation for nominal and real variables. I document a dichotomy in the evolution of the cyclical volatility of financial variables since the mid-1980s. While financial price variables are smoother during the Great Moderation, financial quantity measures experience an immoderation. A model with financial frictions and financial shocks allowing for st...

More and more teachers are developing complex e-learning designs including online communication and online co-operation during two lessons. The intensive use of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) tools in lessons and seminars at brick and wall universities requires a complex set of skills from students and teachers. As of the intensive use of new technologies and social media technologies ma...