This paper investigates the relationship between media bias and the in uence of the media on voting in the context of newspaper endorsements. We rst develop a simple econometric model in which voters choose candidates under uncertainty and rely on endorsements from better informed sources. Newspapers are potentially biased in favor of one of the candidates and voters thus rationally account for...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the patellar movement and the standing backward leaning perceptibility. [Subjects and Methods] Fourteen volunteers who were confirmed presence of upward patellar movement during backward leaning from the quiet standing posture participated in this study. The quiet standing position, the standing backward leaning pos...

This paper presents several strategies and actions which improve the education process by using a platform of learning such as Moodle. In particular, a set of resources and an evaluation system have been created using this blended leaning platform with three basic objectives: to stimulate the autonomous learning by providing interactivity between students to make flexible the way how the studen...