What Though P-values Conspire to Cheat You: Save Your Greatest Failure

Are You Paying Your Employees to Cheat? An Experimental Investigation

We compare, through a laboratory experiment using salient financial incentives, misrepresentations of performance under target-based compensation with those under both a linear piece-rate and a tournament-based bonus system. An anagram game was employed as the experimental task. Results show that productivity was similar and statistically indistinguishable under the three schemes. In contrast, ...

Do you Recommend an Interdisciplinary Field to Your Graduate Student?

The life you save may be your own.

1953 Like much of Flannery O’Connor’s short fiction, ‘‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own’’ is set in the American South and contains characters whose most notable feature seems to be their ordinariness. Through imagery, dialogue, and moments of revelation, O’Connor explores the themes of morality and religion, both frequent concerns in her work. The story evoked critical praise upon its publica...

Sa251 What You Don’t Know about P-glycoprotein Can Hurt You (& Your Patients!)

Overview of the Issue P-glycoprotein, encoded by the MDR1 (also known as the ABCB1 gene) plays an important role in the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of many drugs. It is not surprising, then, that dysfunction of P-glycoprotein increases susceptibility to drug toxicity (antiparasitic agents, anti-diarrheal drugs, chemotherapeutic drugs, acepromazine, butorphanol and others)...

Failure to Thrive: What You Should Know.

This information provides a general overview and may not apply to everyone. Talk to your family doctor to find out if this information applies to you and to get more information on this subject. Copyright © 2016 American Academy of Family Physicians. Individuals may photocopy this material for their own personal reference, and physicians may photocopy for use with their own patients. Written pe...