Medical manpower mismanagement: mirage or miracle?

Medical manpower mismanagement: mirage or miracle?

Ghana’s Development: Miracle or Mirage?

Joyce Meng Introduction: Ghana’s Economic History in Perspective Although Ghana enjoyed a privileged position in the post-colonial era due to a relatively stable regime with a charismatic leader committed to soliciting international financial support, profitable natural endowments, and a comparatively high stock of human capital, short-term growth belied the atrophy of long-term sustainable dev...

Reduced Condenser-Water Flow Rate: Energy-Saving Miracle or Mirage?

The conventional design of air-conditioning plants using large-tonnage chillers calls for a condenser-water flow rate of 3 gallons-perminute-per-ton-of-refrigeration (GPM/TR). For years, this standard has been thought to offer a good balance between first cost and energy cost. Recently, this conventional design has been challenged by proponents of a 2 GPM/TR design. These proponents suggest tha...

Massachusetts: more mirage than miracle.

Enactment of the Massachusetts health reform plan stemmed primarily from several factors unique to the state. They were augmented by a questionable rationale that this latest version of health reform would forestall even greater threats ahead to the interests of the state's business community, private insurance policyholders, and taxpayers. The plan's foremost achievement involves development o...

Unconscious thought and deliberation without attention: A miracle or a mirage?

Since the time of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), people have been fascinated by the possibility of a powerful and influential ‘unconscious’ that controls much of our behaviour. Though Freud conceives of this unconscious largely in terms of emotional urges and powers to suppress these urges, a more cognitive interpretation in terms of mental processes is highly feasible [1, 2]. Most of us will proba...