The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) makes recommendations on which preventive services to routinely incorporate into primary care for specific populations. Behavioral counseling interventions are preventive services designed to help persons engage in healthy behaviors and limit unhealthy ones. The USPSTF’s evaluation of behavioral counseling interventions asks 2 primary questions: ...

Objective: To propose a tool to assist trialists in making design decisions that are consistent with their trial’s stated purpose. Study Design and Setting: Randomized trials have been broadly categorized as either having a pragmatic or explanatory attitude. Pragmatic trials seek to answer the question, ‘‘Does this intervention work under usual conditions?,’’ whereas explanatory trials are focu...

Precis: Monetary and fiscal policies are examined in a steady-state small open economy model. Com­ plete price taking behaviour implies that domestic output is supply determined and invariant to domestic shocks. Balanced budget fiscal policy does, however, alter equilibrium real disposable income. As the terms of trade do not vary with the exchange rate regime the effectiveness of macro policie...

We aim at finding the minimal set of fragments which achieves maximal parse accuracy in Data Oriented Parsing. Experiments with the Penn Wall Street Journal treebank show that counts of almost arbitrary fragments within parse trees are important, leading to improved parse accuracy over previous models tested on this treebank (a precis ion of 90.8% and a recall of 90.6%). We isolate some depende...

Precis: Studies of foreign direct investment in Ireland have concentrated on the absence of linkages and the high proportion of output exported. This paper analyses a sample of manufacturing firms in the Mid-West Region to highlight other relatively neglected aspects, such as managerial skills and technology and argues that the managerial differences between foreign and native firms are such as...

We present a precis-of an approach to relevance as it pertains to weak conditionMs and defeasible reasoning. The notion of relevance is taken as a relation between a property (such as, being green) and a conditional (such as, birds fly). A series of principles characterising a minimal, parsimonious notion of relevance is developed. Lastly, an explicit definition that agrees with the postulates ...

Based on bias-corrected future projections from the Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) regional climate model under both RCP4.5 and 8.5 scenarios over China, extreme climatic events at middle end of twenty-first century are investigated in this paper. The performance PRECIS is validated using comparisons with observations HadGEM2-ES projections, bias correction adds fideli...

Abstract I offer an overview of the book, Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life , summarizing main issues, arguments, conclusions (Fischer 2020). also present some new ideas further developments material book. A big part this essay is drawing connections between specific issues treated book those other areas philosophy, particular, theory agency moral responsibility. highlight striking simila...

This paper constructs quantified measures of preferences for redistribution using survey data from seven OECD countries in which respondents were asked how much in taxes individuals earning given levels of income “should” pay. The resulting preferred tax rates generate reasonable budget sets, are consistent with observed tax rates, and correlate closely with conventional categorical preference ...