Jeffrey Sachs is the economics profession’s leading advocate of mega-reform. Whether it is stabilization of hyperinflation in Bolivia, shock therapy to leap from Communism to capitalism in Poland and Russia, or a “Big Push” to end world poverty , Sachs’ recommendation throughout his career has been to do it fast, do it big, do it comprehensively, and do it with lots of Western money. Sachs’ app...

The aim of this investigation was to analyze the external forces and biomechanical loading on the musculoskeletal system during wheelchair pushing, in relation to different push handle heights. In addition, recommendations for wheelchair pushing in accordance with push handle height are made. Eight young, female subjects carried out three different wheelchair transport tasks at five different p...

With the prevalent use of smartphones and the emergence of the fourth generation of mobile telecommunications technology (4G), an increasing number of employees use their smartphones with cellular data for non-work related purposes during working hours. Compared to traditional cyberloafing, smartphone with cellular data provides a more convenient and private access to the Internet without any r...

Introduction Geriatric patients and their relative fragility with respect to younger patients represent a surgical dilemma for the general surgeon. This has led surgeons to adopt "tailored" techniques and strategies to treat them. The rapid increase of this aged population has given the clinician the chance to push forward the knowledge on this subset of patients and challenge previous concepts...

The growing popularity of open systems in organizational computing has made it important to understand the key determinants of open-systems adoption. Existing innovation diffusion theories, however, have been criticized for their inability to provide an adequate explanation for diffusion of complex organizational technology. This study used the `technology-push' (TP) and `need-pull' (NP) concep...

Bowen and Casadevall (1) offer data suggesting that research inputs have not been associated with comparable increases in health outcomes over the past five decades. However, their analysis treats biomedical research the same, regardless of whether the research focuses on early phases, (i.e., basic discovery) or late phases, (i.e., comparative effectiveness and implementation and dissemination ...

We present a novel visual attention tracking technique based on Shared Attention modeling. Our proposed method models the viewer as a participant in the activity occurring in the scene. We go beyond image salience and instead of only computing the power of an image region to pull attention to it, we also consider the strength with which other regions of the image push attention to the region in...

By considering the master equation of asymmetric exclusion process on a one-dimensional lattice, we obtain the most general boundary condition of the multi-species exclusion processes in which the number of particles is constant in time. This boundary condition introduces the various interactions to the particles, including ones which have been studied yet and the new ones. In these new models,...