School/educational psychology at work around the globe

Deposit Insurance Around the Globe : Where Does It Work ? Asl

Explicit deposit insurance has been spreading rapidly in recent years, even to countries with low levels of financial and institutional development. This paper documents the extent of cross-country differences in deposit-insurance design and reviews empirical evidence on how particular design features affect private market discipline, banking stability, financial development, and the effectiven...

Psychology at Work

Internet Timekeeping Around the Globe

This paper describes a massive survey of Network Time Protocol @TI") servers and clients in order to discover statistics of time and frequency mm, as well as determine the health and welfare of the NTP synchronization subnet operating in the global Internet. Among the conclusions of the survey are that most NTP clocks are within 21 ms of their synchronization sources and all are within 29 ms on...

Integrative Nursing Around the Globe

3 Editorial N urses and other healthcare professionals from around the world are meeting May United States are gathering to explore how integrative nursing is being implemented in various settings and with diverse patient populations. Presentations will focus on characteristics of successful integrative health programs as well as the emerging research agenda underlying integrative nursing. A ma...

Breaking the language barrier: chemical nomenclature around the globe

The use of chemical compound names remains the primary method for conveying molecular structures between chemists and researchers. In research articles, patents, chemical catalogues, government legislation and textbooks, the use of IUPAC and traditional compound names is universal, despite efforts to introduce more machine-friendly representations such as identifiers and line notations. Fortuna...