OBJECTIVE Neuropsychiatric disorders are one of the major contributors to the global burden of disease and disability. Issue of disability in psychiatric disorders has been studied across multiple studies in India. However, there are no reports on the profile and nature of disability among those seeking disability certificates. The current study aims at understanding the socio-clinical profile ...

We take the view (advanced, among others, by Schumpeter) that new ideas are original combinations of existing elements. While many random combinations are useless, some represent combinations which ”...t” together, aggregating di¤erent components in a novel and functional way. Thus, in order to appraise an innovative idea it is necessary to have specialized experts examine whether each of its d...

The question of the relationship between ideas and realisations is an old one and a still ongoing discussion in (legal) philosophy and theory. The use of some results can support present endeavours concerning the building of legal ontologies. Kelsen’s pure theory of law is the basis for our comprehensive legal ontology. Other improvements are the integration of visualisations and relations betw...

The purpose of the study was to identify subjective experiences that are characteristic of schizophrenia. A questionnaire for self-assessment of disturbances in several cognitive-perceptual areas (the Eppendorf Schizophrenia Inventory) was constructed and administered to first episode schizophrenia patients (SCHf; n = 45), negative-syndrome schizophrenia patients (SCHn; n = 45), remitted schizo...

A version of this paper was given as the 2008 Economica Phillips Lecture at LSE on February 7, 2008. I thank Francesco Caselli and other participants in that event for their comments. I am also grateful for conversations with Fernando Alvarez, Jess Benhabib, Francisco Buera, Jonathan Eaton, James Heckman, Boyan Jovanovic, Sam Kortum, Cassey Mulligan, and Nancy Stokey, and for the assistance and...

Plagiarism is a crime against academy. It deceives readers, hurts plagiarized authors, and gets the plagiarist undeserved benefits. However, even though these arguments do show that copying other people's intellectual contribution is wrong, they do not apply to the copying of words. Copying a few sentences that contain no original idea (e.g. in the introduction) is of marginal importance compar...

illus., no price given. The author, to whom we are indebted for a most interesting history of Spanish obstetrics and several historical monographs, has focussed his interest on the 'enlightened' Ruiz de Luzuriagas, father and son, Basque physicians like the author. The father emerges as a great defender of smallpox inoculation, widely practised in Spain before Jenner's vaccination was universal...