Keeping up with Best Evidence: What Resources are Available?

Keeping virtual information resources up and running

The maintenance of materialized views in large-scale environments composed of numerous heterogeneous information sources (ISs), such as the WWW, has importance for the new breed of information service providers. These applications face the problem that such large-scale environments are plagued with ISs not only continuously modifying their contents, but also their schemas and query capabilities...

What Is the Best Available Evidence for Using Homeopathy in Patients with Intellectual Disabilities?

OBJECTIVE The debate about the effectiveness of homeopathy hits the headlines from time to time. Reported evidences for the role of homeopathy in psychiatric illness relevant to people with intellectual disabilities are patchy and inconsistent. In this review we summarize the best available evidence for the use of homeopathy to treat the psychiatric disorders common in this population. METHOD...

Keeping Up with the Joneses: Evidence from Micro Data

This paper provides evidence that habit persistence is an important determinant of household consumption choices in a setting that allows for individual heterogeneity and credit constraints. By using actual individual consumption data, I find that the strength of the external habit, captured by the consumption of the reference group, is 0.290; while the strength of internal habit, represented b...

Skills , capabilities and change : are we keeping up with progress ?

Advances in technology are changing rapidly the discipline areas of information technology and eBusiness. Keeping the curriculum up-to-date and relevant has become a challenge. A prime educators’ task is the development of skills and capabilities meeting diverse employers’ needs. The paper presents the results of a survey to study the relevance of the professional academic content. Three resear...

Keeping up with Change