This paper reports the results of a research project, funded by the RICS Education Trust, that examined the geographical spread of, and shifts in, office property values within an urban area. The aim of this paper is to question whether a geographical analysis of property values can aid business location planning. The research project was divided into two components. After a literature review, ...

In this paper I present the idea of a kind of externalism different from what is usually considered in the internalism / externalism debate. It is intersubjective in nature, since it concerns representation determined by relations between cognitive subjects. More precisely, it concerns linguistic expression types. The basic idea is that the meaning of linguistic expression types often depends o...

Peter Laurberg, Denmark, member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, deceased unexpectedly on 20 June 2016. When walking by foot in Tiflis, Georgia together with his wife shortly after his 71st birthday, he was involved into a car accident. Whereas his wife survived, Peter Laurberg died. Peter Laurberg was worldwide one of the leading thyroidologi...

Mr P C Clifford, consultant in general and vascular surgery at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol died suddenly on 21st February 1989 aged 39. Peter Campbell Clifford was born in December 1949 in Ruislip, Middlesex and was educated at the Royal Masonic School in Bushey. He studied medicine at Bristol University graduating MB ChB in 1973. After house jobs at Frenchay and Southmead hospitals he was appoi...

The Peter Principle: An Experiment The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the transitory...