“Seeing” How Our Drugs Work Brings Translational Added Value

Pharmacodynamics: How Drugs Work

How do psychiatric drugs work?

The Added Value of Value Added Tax

Raising domestic tax revenues is a priority for most sub-Saharan African countries. But the tax bases in most African countries are undermined by widespread tax avoidance and evasion. A new study from CMI supports the claim that improved knowledge about the tax system makes a difference in people’s willingness to pay tax. The study shows that exposure to Value-AddedTax (VAT) makes people take a...

Value-added Services: How to Benefit from Smart Cards

Nowadays, people are more and more nomadic. Today’s applications are thus no more fulfilling the potential requirements of large-scale network users. As connection point kinds are increasing from day to day (PCs, PDAs, GSMs... ) offering value-added services to such users is not trivial. It mostly means offering one service for each kind of use: Although the W3 is available both on PCs and mobi...

How Can Value-added Measures Be Used for Teacher Improvement?

HIGHLIGHTS • Value-added measures are not a good source of information for helping teachers improve because they provide little information on effective and actionable practices. • School, district, and state leaders may be able to improve teaching by using value-added to shape decisions about programs, human resources, and incentives. • Value-added measures of improvement are more precise meas...