How will we get there? How will we know?

Comparable worth: how do we know it will work?

The title of this article poses a question to which there is a very short answer. We don't . We are completely unable to predict the outcomes of an effective comparable worth policy, whether mandated by law or adopted by private decisionmakers . Our ignorance stems from the lack of data with which to build a viable economic model . The issue is, of course, too new for historical evidence or eve...

Neuroscientific Psychaitry: How Do We Get There?

Neuroscience holds the potential for understanding the causes of mental disorders. In order to cure mental disorders we need neuroscientific psychiatry. What is neuroscientific psychiatry? And how can we achieve it? Here I will clarify the concept, identify the obstacles, focus on the target and trace the roadmap for neuroscientific psychiatry. I will argue that we can already begin using neuro...

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Research Roadmap for Tuberculosis Transmission Science: Where Do We Go From Here and How Will We Know When We're There?

High rates of tuberculosis transmission are driving the ongoing global tuberculosis epidemic, and there is a pressing need for research focused on understanding and, ultimately, halting transmission. The ongoing tuberculosis-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coepidemic and rising rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in parts of the world add further urgency to this work. Success in this resear...

How well do we (and will we) know solar neutrino fluxes and oscillation parameters?

Individual neutrino fluxes are not well determined by the four operating solar neutrino experiments. Assuming neutrino oscillations occur, the pp electron neutrino flux is uncertain by a factor of 2, the B flux by a factor of 5, and the Be flux by a factor of 45. For matter-enhanced oscillation ~MSW! solutions, the range of allowed differences of squared neutrino masses, Dm, varies between 4310...