Social Entrepreneurs are Vital for Health Promotion--But They Need Supportive Environments Too

too many students’ congresses, are they necessary and useful?

We Need Action on Social Determinants of Health – but Do We Want It, too?; Comment on “Understanding the Role of Public Administration in Implementing Action on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities”

Recently a number of calls have been made to mobilise the arsenal of political science insights to investigate – and point to improvements in – the social determinants of health (SDH), and health equity. Recently, in this journal, such a rallying appeal was made for the field of public administration. This commentary argues that, although scholarly potential should justifiably be redirected to ...

But Dictionaries Are Data Too

Although empiricist approaches to machine translation depend vitally on data in the form of large bilingual corpora, bilingual dictionaries are also a source of information. We show how to model at least a part of the information contained in a bilingual dictionary so that we can treat a bilingual dictionary and a bilingual corpus as two facets of a unified collection of data from which to extr...

Are Entrepreneurs Eternal Optimists or do they ‘ Get Real ’ ?

The first contribution of this paper is a model of entrepreneurial learning in which both optimistic bias and uncertainty diminish with experience. The shape of the business failure distribution, by experience, is explained by the relative effects of learning on optimism and uncertainty respectively. The second contribution is an empirical analysis using British data on optimism spanning the pe...

Needs Assessment Competencies: Are They Important for Extension Educators?

The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of eleven professional competencies related to needs assessment and program development; a secondary purpose was to identify the best time these competencies should be learned. The study followed a survey research design, in which 441 randomly selected extension educators in the North Central Region of the United States responded to a qu...