The Mortgagees Equitable Interest: Blower v. Hepburn

Educating the Whistle - Blower

Electric Blower Based Portable Ventilator

When a patient is unable to breathe or maintain their airway they will most likely be ventilated by a bag-valve-mask. We propose to replace the traditional bag-valve-mask with an electric blower ventilator. This handheld feedback controlled device will automatically compensate for mask leak and enable the clinician to deliver computer controlled respiratory rates and tidal volumes. We have buil...

Michael Keating, Paul Cairney and Eve Hepburn

This paper explores the policy transfer and learning process within the UK since 1999, examining the conditions in which transfer takes place among central and devolved governments. We distinguish among concurrent policies, policy competition, coercive transfer and policy learning. Policy transfer can be more or less coercive and constrained, while policy learning is voluntary. Mechanisms for t...

Equitability Revisited: Why the ‘‘Equitable Threat Score’’ Is Not Equitable

In the forecasting of binary events, verification measures that are ‘‘equitable’’ were defined by Gandin and Murphy to satisfy two requirements: 1) they award all random forecasting systems, including those that always issue the same forecast, the same expected score (typically zero), and 2) they are expressible as the linear weighted sum of the elements of the contingency table, where the weig...

The equitable dispersion problem

Article history: Received 20 July 2007 Accepted 4 June 2008 Available online 13 June 2008