Gender and Environmental Management: Who’s Role? Who’s Responsibilities?

Whos In the Picture

The context in which a name appears in a caption provides powerful cues as to who is depicted in the associated image. We obtain 44,773 face images, using a face detector, from approximately half a million captioned news images and automatically link names, obtained using a named entity recognizer, with these faces. A simple clustering method can produce fair results. We improve these results s...

Whos Calling at This Hour? Local Sidereal Time and Telephone Telepathy

Can we guess who is calling us on the phone before picking up, and does local sidereal time (LST) affect how often we guess right? Reviews of anomalous cognition studies have shown that effect sizes are highest around 13.30 LST (Spottiswoode, 1997). A post-hoc analysis of telephone telepathy data of Sheldrake (2003) also showed a peak at that time. LST (peak or non-peak) was an independent vari...

Sustainability for the Planet: A Marketing Perspective

Introduction Marketing and the Climate Change Debate Marketing For Social and Environmental Change Marketing and the Scientific Community Enviro-marketers: Whos Out There Marketing Sustainability? What Can We Learn from Them? Marketing Adaptive Management: a Call to Action Conclusion Endnotes Responses to this Article Acknowledgments Literature Cited

Best practices in use of research evidence to inform health decisions

The WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) is committed to the notion that WHO should exemplify best practice in use of research evidence to inform decisions about health. A major ongoing initiative of the ACHR is the Sub-committee on the Use of Research Evidence (SURE). This group is examining WHOs roles and responsibilities in the use of health research to inform decisions about hea...

Should clinicians accept management responsibilities?