© 2007 Sage Public THOMAS G. PATTERSON recently graduated from the Doctoral Programme in clinical psychology at the University of Warwick and Coventry University, UK, where he completed a research thesis on the measurement of unconditional positive self-regard. He is currently employed as a clinical psychologist with North Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK, working across adult and older adult special...

OBJECTIVES To investigate potential sources of systematic bias arising in the assessment of doctors' professionalism. DESIGN Linear regression modelling of cross sectional questionnaire survey data. SETTING 11 clinical practices in England and Wales. PARTICIPANTS 1065 non-training grade doctors from various clinical specialties and settings, 17,031 of their colleagues, and 30,333 of their...

Live attenuated SA-14-14-2 vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) was introduced in the routine immunization under Universal Immunization Program in the 181 endemic districts of India. Recently, the Government of India has announced the introduction of one dose of JE vaccine for adults in endemic districts. The policy to mass vaccinate adults has raised several concerns that are discussed i...

Over the past year there have been a number of recent advances in the fields of miniaturized reaction and separation systems, including the construction of fully integrated 'lab-on-a-chip' systems. Microreactors, which initially targeted DNA-based reactions such as the polymerase chain reaction, are now used in several other chemical and biochemical assays. Miniaturized separation columns are c...

The June 1982 supplement to the Current Population Survey obtained information from women concerning their childbearing to date as well as their future birth expectations. This report presents data based on this survey as well as showing trends in out-of-wedlock childbearing for women since 1947. The lifetime birth expectations of women aged 18 to 24 years are the same as for that same age gr...

The usefulness of an endpoint depends in part on its responsiveness to clinically important change. From existing randomized controlled trials, the responsiveness of endpoints currently employed in osteoporosis clinical trials were examined. The responsiveness is presented as the sample size per group needed to show a statistically significant difference. The large variation found means that ca...

A popular strategy currently employed for new product introductions is co-branding. Such a strategy allows a brand to innovate with the support of a partner brand. The present study investigates how consumers perceive a new product with two brands. Previous research focused on the logic of a brand combination by investigating the impact of the fit between both existing product categories (i.e.,...

Video quality as perceived by human observers is the ground truth when Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is in question. It is dependent on many variables, one of them being the content of the video that is being evaluated. Despite the evidence that content has an impact on the quality score the sequence receives from human evaluators, currently available VQA databases mostly comprise of sequences...

We develop a unique survey that focuses on the job search behavior of individuals regardless their labor force status and field it annually starting in 2013. use our to study relationship between effort outcomes for employed non?employed. Three important facts stand out: (1) on?the?job is pervasive, more intense at lower rungs ladder; (2) are least three times effective than unemployed search; ...