Can't pay, must pay

Can't pay, must pay.

editorial editorial l ong ago, in a political galaxy far away, i was educated at one of the world's elite universities. neither i, nor my middle-class parents, paid a penny in upfront fees for this privilege. in fact, the state—or more precisely my local municipality—paid me a substantial 'maintenance grant' every term which covered my room in college, living expenses, books and other study ess...

Can't pay, won't pay.

Fixing the heart: must the brain pay the price?

Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) has been persuasively shown to prolong life expectancy in a broad spectrum of patients with severe ischemic heart disease.1 Improvements in the procedure during the past 2 decades have allowed operative mortality rates to fall while disease severity, comorbidity rate, and procedural complexity have increased. In one area, however, evidence of impro...

We must pay more attention to record linkage quality.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-311XED010715 Record linkage techniques enable researchers to identify and merge data regarding a single individual stored in different databases 1. There are many possibilities for applying these techniques in health research, surveillance and evaluation. This has led to an increasing interest in their use. Following an international trend, we have observed a grow...

All - Pay

The paper studies a new class of games, “All-Pay Contests”, which capture general asymmetries and sunk investments inherent in scenarios such as lobbying, competition for market power, labor-market tournaments, and R&D races. Players compete for one of several identical prizes by choosing a score. Conditional on winning or losing, it is weakly better to do so with a lower score. The generality ...