IUGS: The past four years – 2008-2012

The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis : Assessing Structural Explanations March 2012

Four years after the beginning of the Great Recession, the labor market remains historically weak. Many observers have concluded that “structural” impediments to recovery bear some of the blame. This paper reviews such structural explanations. I find that there is little evidence supporting these hypotheses, and that the bulk of the evidence is more consistent with the hypothesis that continued...

Prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease or Stroke Among Workers Aged <55 Years — United States, 2008–2012

Cardiovascular disease accounts for one in three deaths in the United States each year, and coronary heart disease and stroke account for most of those deaths. To try to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Million Hearts initiative, promoting proven and effective interventions in communities and clinical settings. In...

An Investigation into Norm Extraction with Regard to Domestication and Foreignization of Culture-Specific Items: A Case of Children’s Literature in the Past Four Years

The aim of this research was an investigation into norm extraction regarding the domestication and foreigni- zation of culture specific items (CSIs) in the children‟s literature in the last four years (from 1393 to 1396). The corpus of this study was 8 English children‟s books with their Persian translated versions. The theoreti- cal fra...

The First Four Billion Years

Pain Medicine 2008: Past, Present and Future

2008 marks the ninth published volume of Pain Medicine, born at the turn of the century into the brave new world of electronic academic publishing. These 8 years witnessed a revolution in the way our field creates, peer-reviews, and communicates new information in medical science and practice. Pain Medicine as a scholarly field and specialty practice has benefited from an explosion of knowledge...