BACKGROUND Self-administered questionnaires are becoming increasingly common in general practice. Much research has explored methods to increase response rates but comparatively few studies have explored the effect of questionnaire administration on reported answers. METHODS The aim of this study was to determine the effect on responses of returning patient questionnaires to the respondents' ...

Most economic theories make general claims. That is, economic models rarely start with assumptions such as: the firms are picnic tables producers in Korea... Hence, whenever one engages in applied work testing a model, there will be issues of generalizability of the results to other data sets, environments, subject population, etc. Such concerns extend to experimental data sets since, in partic...

National Statistical Institutes [NSIs] are increasingly investigating new ways of providing access to confidential microdata for research purposes. These innovations are being driven by the requirement for NSIs to ensure the best possible return for their investments in data collection coupled with researchers’ increasing demand for highly detailed microdata. After a long period of decline as N...

The politics and ethics of participatory development have been a topic of vibrant debate since the 1990s. While proponents assert that participation emancipates and empowers marginalized peoples, critics assert that it enacts new forms of control and regulation. This paper reads these debates through the analytical lens offered by assemblage thinking. Assemblage allows us to foreground affectiv...

This article discusses a focal issue in the field of public relations: the way that practitioners use academic theories. The possible modes of use are discussed and a new perspective on science use —the translation model—is outlined. The premise of this model is that scientific knowledge is seldom used in an unaltered form in practice. Scientific notions are interpreted, reframed, and adapted t...

We investigate the relations between fuzzy relations and maps on fuzzy sets. Moreover, we give their examples. Mathematics Subject Classification: 03E72, 03G10, 06A15, 06F07

Three experiments were conducted to investigate stimulus relations that might emerge when college students are taught relations between compound sample stimuli and unitary comparison stimuli using match-to-sample procedures. In Experiment 1, subjects were taught nine AB-C stimulus relations, then tested for the emergence of 18 AC-B and BC-A relations. All subjects showed the emergence of all te...