In June 2013 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence updated and replaced its 2004 clinical guideline 21 (CG21) on falls with clinical guideline 161 (CG161). Two priorities were outlined in the latter: preventing falls in older people (unchanged from CG21) and preventing falls in older people during a hospital stay (new). CG161 is for health and social care clinicians who care for...

Research utilizing the individual case study method examined the complex issues related to pathways into and out of homelessness for an Aboriginal man from a First Nation community on the western James Bay in Canada. This instrumental case study focused on an individual’s story, rather than on a site or a group of individuals, an incident or a series of incidents, or a program [6] [15]. First, ...

For Britain, during the long period Phillips studied, an unemployment rate of about 2.5% was associated with a rise in wages of about 2% each year. Allowing for productivity growth, that was roughly consistent with stable prices. By and large, higher rates of unemployment were observed when prices were falling; lower rates were observed when prices were rising. The lower the rate of joblessness...

As the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) increases in recognition for its contributions to teaching and learning in higher education, it also becomes increasingly important that those wishing to make contributions, and whose area of expertise falls outside of the field of education, make themselves aware of how to conduct educational research. In this essay I question what scholarship...

In his 19th century novel, Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy described a man who falls asleep in Boston in 1887 and awakens in the year 2000 to find that the United States has evolved into a utopian society. No longer are paper or metallic currency in circulation. Instead people pay for everything with paperboard cards that carry a certain value in dollars. To make a purchase, a person need only...

The time evolution of a two-level atom which is simultaneously exposed to the field of a running laser wave and a homogeneous gravitational field is studied. The result of the coupled dynamics of internal transitions and center-of-mass motion is worked out exactly. Neglecting spontaneous emission and performing the rotating wave approximation we derive the complete time evolution operator in an...

Poverty in Africa has been rising for the last quarter-century, while it has been falling in the rest of the developing world. Africa's distinctive problem is that its economies have not been growing. This article attempts to synthesize a range of recent research to account for this failure of the growth process. I argue that the reasons lie not in African peculiarities but rather in geographic...