The Eysenck Personality Inventory, the Middlesex Hospital questionnaire, and forearm blood-flow were used to measure aspects of psychological status in forty-one patients with the irritable bowel syndrome, who were compared in this respect with twenty-five matched psychoneurotic subjects and with a general population. The results show a positive association between psychoneurotic disorder and t...

As Solow once remarked to me, we would not now be concerned with the question [the existence of the aggregate production function] had Paul Douglas found labor's share of American output to be twenty-five per cent and capital's share seventy-five instead of the other way around [Fisher, 1969, 572]. I hope that someone skilled in econometrics and labor will audit and evaluate my critical finding...

Roughly twenty five years ago Hofer asked: can the cylinder B2(1)×R2(n−1) be symplectically embedded into B2(n−1)(R)×R2 for some R > 0? We show that this is the case if R > √ 2n−1 + 2n−2 − 2. We deduce that there are no intermediate capacities, between 1-capacities, first constructed by Gromov in 1985, and n-capacities, answering another question of Hofer. In 2008, Guth reached the same conclus...

PURPOSE To determine the retention of knowledge along the years after certification of physicians as ophthalmology specialists. METHODS The physicians, former ophthalmology residents, were selected at the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, and randomly allocated to three groups of seven individuals, according to the time as specialists. Group 1 consi...

than twenty-five years, he has conducted research, taught about, written cases, and been involved in managing and advising nonprofit organisations. His research interests include marketing models, arts and entertainment, and marketing strategy. He is co-author of Public and Nonprofit Marketing.

This research report summarises the results of an exploratory teaching program in a primary and secondary school in rural New South Wales, Australia, focused on improving basic mathematics skills. Pupils, aged 11 to 13 years, identified as consistently low-achieving in Mathematics were targeted. The program ran for approximately twenty-five weeks with pairs of pupils involved in five thirty-min...

The potential importance of congestion effects on the management and rationing of recreational facilities and services in the presence of heterogeneous preferences were highlighted nearly twenty-five years ago by Freeman and Haveman (1977). While there have been a number of theoretical models extending and expanding upon this work (McConnell 1988; Anderson 1993), empirical research evaluating s...

The exponentially increasing body of work on the human brain has not only taught us a lot about how the brain does cognition, it has also had a profound influence on other disciplines that study cognition and behaviour. A notable example, interestingly enough, is philosophy. A small movement dedicated to applying neuroscience to traditional philosophical problems and using philosophical methods...

Superior early numerical competencies of children in several Asian countries have (amongst others) been attributed to the higher transparency of their number word systems. Here, we directly investigated this claim by evaluating whether Japanese children's transcoding performance when writing numbers to dictation (e.g., "twenty five" → 25) was less error prone than that of German-speaking childr...