Homework is a common and widespread educational activity. Yet, as homework often takes place amidst the pull of more attractive and competing after-school activities, doing homework presents multiple challenges for many students, even for those students who find their assignments meaningful and interesting. In this article, I first examine five major homework challenges, including arranging a c...

Over the last few decades the movement of Socially Responsibly Investing (SRI) has been afoot that started almost as an anti-establishment reaction, but has morphed into mainstream consciousness and focus. It has become clear that one can go beyond the subjective implications of engaging in enterprises that produce dangerous, unhealthy or immoral products. There are many processes that optimize...

698 • JAOA • Vol 101 • No 12 • December 2001 sponsible for communicating with IRBs/IECs, for ensuring that the approved procedures of obtaining informed consent are followed, for determining that protocols are followed, and for reporting adverse events. IRBs/IECs are responsible for scrutinizing proposed research and ascertaining that both the work and the workers comply with agreed-upon standa...

This Article argues that the current approach of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to enforcement of the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (the "Stark Law") is unnecessarily punitive and discourages health-care providers from self-disclosing even very minor violations of the Stark Law. This Article suggests a number of specific ch...

H ow do we realistically assess the past, present, and future of our security and privacy technology? Like Spider-Man, with our great computing power comes great responsibility—to use our power wisely, to design high-quality security and privacy applications, and to quickly correct errors and improve results. The difficulty of predicting the future of security and privacy is often accompanied b...

Computerized neuropsychological assessment has integrated slowly into research and practice since the introduction of the personal computer. Though initial integration of technology to the laboratory and clinical setting utilized specialized hardware and software, newer generation assessment tools are integrated with "off-the-shelf" operating systems. Further, neuropsychological assessment is b...

The members of these two organizations play an instrumental role in ensuring the efficient functioning of North America’s financial markets and, from a central bank perspective, the efficient transmission of monetary policy. You are, therefore, among the Bank of Canada’s key target audiences. We rely on the effective twoway flow of information between the Bank and financial markets in order to ...

ESG rating dispersion has left responsible investors in great confusion and posed non-negligible barriers to sustainable investment. Despite its importance, there is a lack of research on the role portfolio decisions asset pricing for Chinese capital market. We reveal negative return predictability dispersion, which cannot be solely attributed common risk exposures. also consider two potential ...

This paper reports on a case-study research investigation that sought to identify the relevance of emotional intelligence for effective higher education academic leadership. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, pre and post a leadership capacity development intervention, to gather broad data on participants' experiences, insights, and engagement in leadership and the utilisation of emotio...

Why did wards go mixed in the first place? In the 1960s, when the old long-stay wards began to empty, the prevailing ideology was that mixed gender institutions were healthier places than single sex ones. Mixed sex education was increas ing in schools and even in previously male Oxbridge colleges. Within psychiatry, mixed sex in-patient units were introduced by the therapeutic community movemen...