Comments from Taffel at NCHS

NCHS urban-rural classification scheme for counties.

OBJECTIVES This report details the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) development of the 2006 NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties and provides some examples of how the scheme can be used to describe differences in health measures by urbanization level. METHODS The 2006 NCHS urban-rural classification scheme classifies all U.S. counties and county-equivalents into si...

Comments from Meghnad Desai Comments from Carl Riskin Comments from Keijiro Otsuka

Introduction The two documents before us—the Draft Final Report and Policy Directions—are comprehensive and detailed. The Report carries out an extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Western Region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with a view to aiding the Great Western Development Strategy (GWDS). The 19 chapters of the Report cover a range of topics—natural resources, h...

Comments from the departing Editor.

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While prior research, as noted in our paper, often uses various accrual prediction models to detect earnings management, not much is known about the accuracy, both relative and absolute, associated with these models. Our paper investigates the accuracy of six different accrual prediction models, and offers the following findings. Only the Kang-Sivaramakrishnan (1995) model performs moderately w...

Comments from the new Editor.

It is a tremendous pleasure and honour to take over as the Editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B from my colleague and friend of longstanding, Dame Linda Partridge. I am particularly fortunate to assume stewardship of this flagship publication which has thrived under the superb leadership of Linda, who has done so much to develop the journal and to keep it safe through rec...