Does the measurement take place when nobody observes it?

What Does It Take

This study explores the extent to which campaign visibility facilitates electoral participation, using data from firstand second-order elections in Britain. Our contribution to the existing literature is threefold. First, we assess whether the effects of campaign effort are conditioned by marginality, finding that campaign mobilisation gets out the vote regardless of the competitiveness of the ...

Reconsidering substitution in long-term care: when does assistive technology take the place of personal care?

OBJECTIVE Assistive technology (AT) may improve quality of life and reduce dependence for older persons with disabilities. In this article, we examine tradeoffs between the use of AT and reliance on personal care, with attention to factors that may influence those relationships. METHODS We jointly modeled hours of formal and informal care with use of AT in order to address the interdependence...

When Nobody Wins*

As young children vividly illustrate with their performance on the wug-test (Berko 1958), the ability to generalize linguistic patterns to novel items is a core property of language. It thus comes as a surprise when we stumble into a dark and dusty corner of language where our boundless linguistic productivity has unexpectedly failed. For example, the English verb forgo ‘to go without’ is unexc...

What does it take to win?

Does It Take Two to Tango?

The debate continues regarding the existence of an adverse interaction between proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and clopidogrel. Concerns for a drug-drug interaction first emerged when experimental pharmacodynamic data indicated that omeprazole might diminish the in vitro antiplatelet effects of clopidogrel.1,2 These concerns were escalated when retrospective data from 2 large observational studie...