Deb's Page: Any Questions?

Three questions to guide any change effort.

Y ears ago, as a busy physician practicing full-time family medicine with a great group of partners, I was very happy with my chosen profession, but I felt a growing burden. Third-party payers were imposing numerous changes on our group that increased the work and complexity but did nothing to improve the experience of care for our patients. In addition, the welfare of the team delivering car...

Any questions left ? Review of Ginzburg & Sag ’ s Interrogative investigations

For better or worse, linguistics is rife with frameworks, each with its own ethos. Two important aspects of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar's are : (1) the search for an explicit and exhaustive account of the intricate syntactic and semantic facts that constitute one's grammar and (2) the hypothesis that general/universal and specific aspects of one's grammar are not qualitatively distinct...

Democratic consolidation in the Third World : Many questions , any answers ?

The paper is concerned with democratisation in the Third World since the 1980s, a period when dozens of Third World countries underwent at least some measure of democratic change. The paper, both general and comparative, rather than specific and focused on one or several countries, aims to try to help locate discussions in the workshopÕs analytical framework: to assess the extent of democratic ...

This is your Twitter on drugs: Any questions?

Twitter can be a rich source of information when one wants to monitor trends related to a given topic. In this paper, we look at how tweets can augment a public health program that studies emerging patterns of illicit drug use. We describe the architecture necessary to collect vast numbers of tweets over time based on a large number of search terms and the challenges that come with finding rele...

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