Measure for Measure: How Well Do We Measure Micro-Level Conflict Intensity?

How Do We Measure Comorbidity?

This chapter reviews methods used to measure comorbidity in the context of cancer; summarising methods, identifying contexts in which they have been used and assessing the validity, reliability and feasibility of each approach. Measures of comorbidity are categorised according to whether they are based on individual conditions or simple counts, on dysfunction/function of organ systems, on condi...

How do we measure quality?

Stroke care: how do we measure quality?

The purpose of this paper is to review the methods used to measure quality of stroke care. Relevant articles were searched for on Medline using the following key words: stroke, quality, outcome of care, process of care, structure of care. Articles that examined how to measure the quality of stroke care and that examined difficulties in the measurement of care outcomes, processes, and structures...

How Should We Measure the “economic” Aspects of Well-being?

The Human Development Index (HDI) uses GDP per capita to measure “command over resources,” which implicitly makes the strong value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter. This paper presents revised estimates of the Index of Economic Well-Being (IEWB) for the United States, the U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 and demonstrates that r...

How do Synapses Measure Milliseconds?

Experimental validation of a theoretical prediction by measurements has often produced a critical step forward in our understanding of brain function. Donald Hebb’s original idea that the repetitive contribution of cell A to cell Bs fi ring should result in a strengthening of this particular connection was spectacularly confi rmed by the discovery of spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP; Bi ...