Doing Literature Now

Doing It Now or Later

We examine self-control problems — modeled as time-inconsistent, presentbiased preferences—in a model where a person must do an activity exactly once. We emphasize two distinctions: Do activities involve immediate costs or immediate rewards, and are people sophisticated or naive about future self-control problems? Naive people procrastinate immediate-cost activities and preproperate—do too soon...

Users and technology: are we doing research now?

There is an obvious need for user studies. Libraries are facing new technologies within a rapidly changing digital environment. New services need to be developed and tested. Until lately, librarians primary received money for building something, such as a digital library. Whether that service actually met users needs often seemed secondary, and research about users, their behavior and their nee...

Doing a Literature Review in Health

Angle closure and angle-closure glaucoma: what we are doing now and what we will be doing in the future.

Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) frequently leads to severe vision loss. Prevalence among older Asian populations is high and given global demographics, the number of persons with PACG will increase dramatically in the coming decades. Improvements in imaging of the anterior segment will help us to identify more of those with angle closure, and important clinical trials that are currently u...

Indigenous Ways of Doing: Synthesizing Scholarly Literature on Ethno-Engineering

Disclaimer: This paper was written by two authors1 who grew up in the developed part of the Western world with experience in different countries and cultures within the developed Western world and to a limited extent in the southern hemisphere world. One of the authors brings with him an academic background in engineering. The other author brings a background in education and Religious Studies,...