this is a commentary on gilbert and colleagues’ (1) paper on morality and markets in the national health service (nhs). morality and values are not ephemeral qualities and universal healthcare is not simply an aspiration; it has to be enshrined in law. the creation of the uk nhs in 1948 was underpinned by core legal duties which required a system of public funding and delivery to follow. the mo...

A frequent problem in longitudinal studies is that subjects may miss some scheduled visits or be assessed at self-selected points in time. As a result, observed outcome data may be highly unbalanced. Also, the availability of the data may be directly related to the outcome measure or some auxiliary factors that are related to the outcomes. This situation can be viewed as informative follow-up, ...

This chapter provides a detailed discussion of the evidence on housing and mortgage lending, as well as the potential impacts of such discrimination on minority outcomes like homeownership and neighborhood environment. The paper begins by discussing conceptual issues surrounding empirical analyses of discrimination including explanations for why discrimination takes place, defining different fo...

The paper analyses the causes of the current crisis of the global financial system, with particular emphasis on the systemic elements that turned the crisis of subprime mortgage-backed securities in the United States, a small part of the overall system, into a worldwide crisis. The first half of the paper explains the role of mortgage securitization as a mechanism for allocating risks from real...

In most source coded bit streams certain bits can be much more sensitive to transmission errors than others. Unequal error protection (UEP) offers a mechanism for matching error protection capability to sensitivity to transmission errors. A UEP system typically has the same average transmission rate as a corresponding equal error protection (EEP) system but offers an improved perceived signal q...

Deep learning methods have achieved high performance in sound recognition tasks. Deciding how to feed the training data is important for further performance improvement. We propose a novel learning method for deep sound recognition: Between-Class learning (BC learning). Our strategy is to learn a discriminative feature space by recognizing the between-class sounds as between-class sounds. We ge...

Interest in polyether antibiotics has remained at a high level for over 20 years, owing largely to the commercial importance of this class of drugs in veterinary medicine. For example, monensin1*, lasalocid1} and salmomycin2) are marketed as anticoccidial agents for poultry, and are used as growth permittants in cattle or swine. Narasin1} and maduramicin3) are also used as anticoccidial agents....

In this study we investigated the effects of endothelium removal and L-NAME on responses to α-adrenoceptor agonists. Male Wistar rats were killed by overdose with pentobarbitone sodium, after which the left and right common carotid arteries were removed. Rings of arteries 3-4 mm in length were cut from each vessel and then mounted in 10 mL isolated organ bath, bathed in Krebs maintained at ...