Getting to work

Getting epiphenomena to do real work

Emergence—macro-level effects from micro-level causes—is at the heart of the conflict between reductionism and functionalism. How can there be autonomous higher level functionalities (the functionalist claim) if everything can be reduced to the fundamental forces of physics (the reductionist position)? We cut through this debate by applying a computer science lens to the way we view nature. We ...

Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School

We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in rural India. In treatment schools, teachers’ attendance was monitored daily using cameras, and their salaries were made a nonlinear function of attendance. Absenteeism by teachers fell by 21 percentage points relative to the control group,...

Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، فروردین 1398، 2-1             آشنایی با روش گروه صوری Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique   محسن رضائیان[1]،[2]   M. Rezaeian   در سخن سردبیری بهمن ماه سال گذشته به روش دلفی پرداخته و اشاره کردیم که این روش، یکی از راه‌های دست‌یابی به توافق پیرامون یک موضوع می‌باشد [1]. هدف از نگارش این سخن سردبیری، پرداخت...

On Getting Use Cases and Aspects to Work Together

Aspect orientation (AO) as an underlying logical model deduced from Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) [Kiczales97] is attracting attention and gaining in popularity. A number of authors have recently written about how ideas of aspect orientation might be used in connection or in conjunction with existing modeling techniques or technologies in order to enhance the capabilities of the latter. For...

Work related upper limb disorders: getting down to specifics.