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Ramadan fasting: Evidence or expert opinion? Results of preliminary studies

Each year, over a billion Muslims fast worldwide during the month of Ramadan.  Through this religious practice, not only will one have spiritual growth, but can improve his/her diet, which is of pivotal importance in this month. Conversely, the available evidence regarding the health benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many...

Expert Psychological Evidence

Expert psychological assessment and evidence can be requested in a great many legal matters, including family law, matters before the Social Security Appeals Tribunal or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (including appeals against not granting a pension, and immigration appeals), assessment of fitness to be tried, pre-sentence reports, assessments for bail or parole, assessment of whether or ...

High Quality Expertise Evidence for Expert Search

In an Enterprise setting, an expert search system can assist users with their “expertise need” by suggesting people with relevant expertise to the topic of interest. These systems typically work by associating documentary evidence of expertise to each candidate expert, and then ranking the candidates by the extent to which the documents in their profile are about the query. There are three impo...

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Does Abolishing Fees Reduce School Quality? Evidence from Kenya

In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. We find that this Free Primary Education (FPE) policy resulted in a decline in public school quality and increased demand for private schooling. However, the former did not reflect a decline in value added by public schools as anticipated if fees contribute to local accountability but rather the selection of weaker pupils into...