Referencing – an Academic Obligation

Is health a right or an obligation?

Imagine that your waist size is measured annually and your data from annual health checkups are stored in the database. A big brother keeps track of you and dictates what you should eat and how much when it exceeds a certain limit. Not a novel by George Orwell, it is an essential part of Japan's health care reform 2008. ''Disease management programmes (DMP)'' aimed at chronic diseases with a ho...

CABRef: Cross-Referencing into an Abstracts Database

This paper describes a prototype system, CABRef, which provides seamless linking from a citation in the bibliography of an electronic journal article to a detailed abstract of the cited work, within a particular research domain. Publishers of journal articles will query CABRef to determine the URL links to embed in their article bibliographies which enable end-user cross-reference navigation. T...

Obligation Rules

We provide a characterization of the obligation rules in the context of minimum cost spanning tree games. We also explore the relation between obligation rules and random order values of the irreducible cost game it is shown that the later is a subset of the obligation rules. Moreover we provide a necessary and sufficient condition on obligation function such that the corresponding obligation r...

Socioeconomic stress and academic adjustment among Asian American adolescents: the protective role of family obligation.

Socioeconomic stress has long been found to place youth at risk, with low family income conferring disadvantages in adolescents' school achievement and success. This study investigates the role of socioeconomic stress on academic adjustment, and pinpoints family obligation as a possible buffer of negative associations. We examined direct and interactive effects at two time points in the same sa...

Academic style with substance: A collaborative screencasting project to support referencing skills