Across today’s developed world, there is a clear mortality gradient by socioeconomic status for all ages. It is often taken for granted that this gradient was as strong—or even stronger—in the past when social transfers were rudimentary and health care systems were less developed. Some studi...
Today’s generation of athletes see culture, sports, and music as one, and go all-in and all-out for something bigger than themselves: their team. Six months after Protect This House officially re-entered the global sports vernacular, Under Armour has teamed up with Minnesota superstar wide ...
2043, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 2008, p. 5, regarding the competition from airlines. Shinkansen, by the way, does not mean "bullet train," but, more prosaically, "new trunk line." 11 But there are diminishing returns. For a variety of reasons— including ...
Such applications have been met with fierce opposition due to privacy and due process concerns (famously in the case of Total Information Awareness). Critics have also disputed data mining’s efficacy, highlighting problems with false positive rates. A 2008 National Academies report went so far as ...
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between teachers’ beliefs about the usefulness of explicit instruction as well as their own abilities and teacher performance. In a mixed method approach, the beliefs of N = 16 teachers were captured with a questionnaire, while their ...