The Consequences of Measuring Non-Attitudes about Foreign Trade Preferences

Are EU non - reciprocal trade preferences passé ?

the foreign policy of russia toward caucasus 2000-2008

after the soviet union dissolution, a chaotic period was begun in the russia. russia lost its glory and felt disgrace. the first group of elites came to power under yeltsin; they tried to re-define russia’s identity as a european country and build a foreign policy on this baseline. therefore russia tried to become closer with the west especially with the u.s. according to their view the sovie...

On Measuring Non-recursive Trade-Offs

We investigate the phenomenon of non-recursive trade-offs between descriptional systems in an abstract fashion. We aim at categorizing non-recursive trade-offs by bounds on their growth rate, and show how to deduce such bounds in general. We also identify criteria which, in the spirit of abstract language theory, allow us to deduce nonrecursive tradeoffs from effective closure properties of lan...

Canadian physicians' attitudes about and preferences regarding clinical practice guidelines.

OBJECTIVE To assess Canadian physicians' confidence in, attitudes about and preferences regarding clinical practice guidelines. DESIGN Cross-sectional, self-administered mailed survey. PARTICIPANTS Stratified random sample of 3000 Canadian physicians; 1878 (62.6%) responded. SETTING Canada. OUTCOME MEASURES Physicians' use of various information sources; familiarity with and confidence ...

Physician attitudes and preferences about combined Tdap vaccines for adolescents.

BACKGROUND Combined tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) boosters for adolescents are a new strategy to prevent pertussis. We examined the current practices of pediatricians and family physicians regarding adolescent tetanus and diphtheria toxoids (Td) vaccine immunizations and providers' potential adherence to new Tdap recommendations for adolescent...