John Steinbeck's 1937 novella Of Mice and Men is one of the most popular works of American literature and also one of the most widely studied. Although deemed a failure by Steinbeck himself, this brief fable about two itinerant California ranch hands went on to win largely favorable reviews , selection by the Book of the Month Club, and successful transformation into a play and three movies. OM...

Higher Criticism is a recently developed statistic for non-Gaussian detection, proposed in Donoho & Jin 2004, where it has been shown to be effective at resolving a very subtle testing problem: whether n normal means are all zero versus the alternative that a small fraction is nonzero. Higher Criticism is also useful in the detection of a non-Gaussian convolution component of cosmic strings in ...

The current research examined the relations among self-criticism, autonomous versus controlled motivations, and goal progress. Recent researchers have suggested that self-critics are less autonomously motivated, that is, that their goals are less tied to their interests and personal meaning than is true for other individuals, and that the effects of self-criticism on goal progress are mediated ...

Most of the literary theorists and critics of classical antiquity who are still studied today – Plato, Aristotle, ‘Longinus’, and a few others – are Greeks. The Romans, who by reputation came late to literature and lacked a theoretical cast of mind, are not generally accorded a prominent place in the development of this discourse. Indeed, few surviving Roman texts address as their main topic th...

Pearson not criticize these data? On the contrary, I agree with Prof Pearson’s other criticism. If, in fact, some patients with a particular risk are precociously excluded from a therapy protocol, the calculation of this risk for the whole population will be wrong. That was the case in the phlebotomy branch of the P.V.S.G. protocol, where the oldest and those with vascular risk factors or throm...

critical care group expert practice development group, representing leading-edge practice.7 The project team was tasked to report and recommend methods that accurately and robustly capture and verify evidence of knowledge and application of skills of advanced practice capability. Additionally, the project was to evaluate systematically the evidence of knowledge and application of skills of adva...