Military Expenditure Trends for 1960–2014 and What They Reveal

Military Expenditure and Economic Growth

This paper proposes to test the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth by including the impact of the share of military and civilian components of government expenditure in an economic growth model with endogenous technology. In this framework, we empirically consider the hypothesis of a nonlinear effect of military expenditure on economic growth. The comparison between c...

Trends and patterns of prostate cancer: what do they suggest?

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer in most western countries (1). In the United States, it is the second leading cause of cancer death following only lung cancer (2, 3). During the year 2001, an estimated 31,500 US men will die of prostate cancer and 198,100 men will be newly diagnosed (2). Despite the substantial morbidity and mortality, the etiology of prostate can...

Motor illusions: what do they reveal about proprioception?

Five illusions involving distortions in the perception of limb position, movement, and weight are described in the context of their contribution to understanding the sensory processes involved in proprioception. In particular, these illusions demonstrate that the position sense representation of the body and the awareness of limb movement result from the cross-calibration of visual and proprioc...

Emerging trends in medical education: What are they? And why are they important?

What Lies Within: Superscripting References to Reveal Research Trends.

Interpreting scholarly contributions solely on the basis of the number, and not nature, of citations is inherently flawed because contradictory as well as confirmatory findings feed into the same metric, capturing popularity at the expense of precision. I propose a citation and indexing procedure that would conveniently integrate information about research trends while imposing minimal burden o...