When Hope Is All There Is Left

Epilepsy: Is there hope?

Epilepsy is a highly prevalent chronic neurologic disorder and leads to social, behavioural, health and economic consequences. 'Treatment gap' varies from 10 per cent in developed countries to 75 per cent in low-income countries. Stigma and discrimination related to epilepsy are prevalent worldwide. Electroencephalography (EEG) is considered the most important tool for evaluating the patient wi...

Successful aging: is there hope?

There is hope in attribute weighting

Experimental evidence shows that attribute weighting in value trees is prone to various biases. The origins of these biases are suggested to be either behavioral or procedural. It is most surprising that recent literature does not discuss weighting biases observed in connection with applications where these methods are used to support real decision making processes. This is the situation both w...

Is there hope for the homeless?

Is there 'Hope' for price cap regulation?

This article examines the problem of regulatory opportunism or strategic behavior by the regulator that undermines the performance of price cap regulation (PCR) without technically breaching the price cap commitment. Drawing from the experience with PCR in the telecommunications industry, this article contends that the Hope standard, a litmus test for governing the bounds of regulatory discreti...