Why isn't guardianship more popular in Scotland?

After more than a decade, has pet guardianship changed anything?

Are Popular Classes More Defect Prone?

Traces of the evolution of software systems are left in a number of different repositories: such as configuration management systems, bug tracking systems, mailing lists. Developers use e-mails to discuss issues ranging from lowlevel concerns (bug fixes, refactorings) to high-level resolutions (future planning, design decisions). Thus, e-mail archives constitute a valuable asset for understandi...

AEGD programs: why now, why more?

With an increased number of dental schools graduating more dentists, along with the opening of new dental schools throughout the United States, more graduating dental students are considering utilizing Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) programs as a means to increase their understanding of the complexity of modern dentistry and to gain additional training and experience before head...

How and why are non-prescription analgesics used in Scotland?

BACKGROUND UK Government policy increasingly encourages self-care of minor illnesses, including self-medication. Analgesics constitute a quarter of UK over-the-counter medicines sales, but concerns have been expressed about their potential for inappropriate use. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of recent use of non-prescription analgesics in Scotland, to describe by whom they are used, a...

Why do popular mechanisms lack efficiency in random environments?

We consider the problem of randomly assigning n indivisible objects to n agents. Recent research introduced a promising mechanism, the probabilistic serial that has superior e¢ ciency properties than the most common real-life mechanism random priority. On the other hand, mechanisms based on Gale’s celebrated top trading cycles method have long dominated the indivisible goods literature (with th...