Censored: Whistleblowers and impossible speech

Whistleblowers.

T he term whistleblower comes from the phrase ‘‘blow the whistle’’, which refers to a whistle being blown by a policeman or a referee to indicate an activity that is illegal or a foul [1]. Recently, whistleblowers have disseminated valuable information to the community through new media outlets, such as WikiLeaks. In medicine, whistleblowers serve to shed light on side-effects of drugs and, occ...

Protecting Whistleblowers By Contract

the effects of speech rate,prosodic features, and blurred speech on iranian efl learners listening comprehension

کلید واژه ها به زبان انگلیسی: effect of speech rate on listening comprehension, blurred speech,segmental and suprasegmental features,authentic speech,intelligibility, discrimination, omission, assimilation چکیده: سرعت مطالب شنیداری در کلام پیوسته بطور کلی همواره کابوسی بوده برای یادگیرنده های زبان دوم و بالاخص برای شنوندگان ایرانی. علی رغم عقل سلیم که کلام با سرعت کندتری فعالیتهای درک مطلب شن...

Whistleblowers: troublemakers or virtuous nurses?

Whistleblowing is the action taken by a nurse who goes outside the organization for the public's best interest when it is unresponsive to reporting the danger through the organization's proper channels. As a professional, every nurse needs to champion whistleblowing rather than ostracizing nurses with the moral courage to speak out on unethical practices.

Censored Variables and Censored Regression

A censored variable has a large fraction of observations at the minimum or maximum. Because the censored variable is not observed over its entire range ordinary estimates of the mean and variance of a censored variable will be biased. Ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates of its regression on a set of explanatory variables will also be biased. These estimates are not consistent, i.e., the bias...