Good evidence begets good policy: or so it should be

Uses of qualitative research, or so what good is it?

Nothing either good or bad but action makes it so.

Federico and Perez, in a recent issue of The Journal of Physiology, provide new insight into the impact of incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) on corticospinal preparation for movement (Federico & Perez, 2017). In people with chronic incomplete cervical SCI and age-matched control subjects, they measured motor evoked potentials evoked by cortical (MEPs) or subcortical (CMEPs) stimulation and sh...

Medical Errors Disclosure: Is It Good or Bad?

Background: In the treatment and health process, there are a lot of dangers to patients, and the increased number of medical errors is one of the most important circumstances of this process. Objective: The present research purposed to decrease medical errors through disclosure of them in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. M...

Can Industrial Policy Be Good Policy

Can industrial policy be market-ensuring (e.g. via antitrust or enforcement of property rights) and market-conforming (non-distorting)? Can it provide a political second-best solution by creating a smaller market distortion to prevent a larger one that results from political ferment? This paper explores issues of the definition of industrial policy, discusses market failure vs. government failu...

What Should a Good Security Model Be?

In this article we survey a number of security models – which range from the first models to newly proposed approaches – in an attempt to answer the question of what we want our security model to be. The emphasis of this work is not on past or current security models, but rather on new approaches that have been proposed in the literature but have not yet found their way to the end user. The mod...