Who Says I'm Unfit for Work?

Who Says We R0 Ready for Change?

This paper uses a theoretical model of cooperative learning to examine the survivability of communities of learners. A primary assumption in this article is that individualbased learning tends to use local information to increase an individual’s “fitness” while collaborative learning, based on the sharing of information, knowledge, and resources, increases group fitness. We frame our discussion...

Paranoid? Who Says I'm Paranoid?

Conflict in Protected Areas: Who Says Co-Management Does Not Work?

Natural resource-related conflicts can be extremely destructive and undermine environmental protection. Since the 1990 s co-management schemes, whereby the management of resources is shared by public and/or private sector stakeholders, have been a main strategy for reducing these conflicts worldwide. Despite initial high hopes, in recent years co-management has been perceived as falling short o...

Who says teaching hospitals are thriving?

Gerard Anderson, et al., in a recent commentary published in Health Affairs (March/April 1999), concluded that "despite dire predictions, America's teaching hospitals appear to be thriving".' This outdated conclusion, based largely on data from 1995, is dangerously optimistic and belies mounting evidence that documents the significant financial stress now facing teaching hospitals around the co...

Who says you cannot get published?

O ne cannot go past the achievements of the winners of the Ig Nobel awards when it comes to service to medicine and science. The Igs are intended to celebrate unusual and imaginative research and are awarded annually by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research. The aim is to make people think and laugh, and along the way it may spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and t...