The employee-centered thinking bears the hallmark of a postindustrialization era, which culminates in the attempt to manage and measure intangible assets. Nevertheless, invisibility of the IC construct per se generates insurmountable divisions ontologically and methodologically. We adopt a teleological perspective to classify and simplify extant IC metrics so as to single out the fundamental is...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been the subject of growing recognition since its inception in 1980. Owing in part to the relatively recent inclusion of PTSD in the psychiatric nomenclature, research is only beginning to address its treatment in methodologically rigorous studies. In this review, we discuss issues such as prevalence of trauma and of PTSD, and gold standards for treatmen...

Ordinary least squares (OLS) is the default method for fitting linear models, but is not applicable for problems with dimensionality larger than the sample size. For these problems, we advocate the use of a generalized version of OLS motivated by ridge regression, and propose two novel three-step algorithms involving least squares fitting and hard thresholding. The algorithms are methodological...

S size is a crucial component of research design. More often researchers want sample size to be justified on non statistical grounds. For example, a researcher may say that I could get only these many cases in the specified time period so as a statistician do something to make the study valid in spite of whatever sample size I have used. Similarly, financial constraint is sometimes cited an exc...

Methodologically, this paper frames the opportunity cost of any merger as the value of the alternative deals it precludes or defers. This challenges the standard eventstudy hypothesis that stock markets benchmark the value of a merger deal by the profits the partners would have earned in stand-alone activity. Substantively, the paper finds that megamergers in banking show two size-related excep...

The paper describes the strategy of an interdisciplinary project on the patterns of transnational interactions and mobility that shaped intercultural dialogue in the south-eastern periphery of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. Methodologically, it is structured around three interconnected analytic levels of institutions, associations and everyday life, that are mutually constitutive, and the ex...

The first functional neuroimaging studies of schizophrenia, using single photon (SPET) and positron emission tomography (PET), led to the notion of abnormal 'hypofrontality' (Ingvar & Franzen, 1974). Although consistent with data linking schizophrenia with deficits in frontal function, the popularity of'hypofrontality' gradually faded as technically and methodologically more sophisticated studi...

Tests of cognitive functions were carried out in a group of patients with Parkinson's disease and repeated after a three-year interval. Comparison was made with a control group drawn from a population of psychiatric patients, matched for age and sex. No differences in cognitive functions were found between the groups, either initially, or between those surviving for three years. Deaths among th...

However, this can be done by means of a relatively simple and feasible technique that may significantly increase the linguistic value of statistical typological observations. The basic idea is very simple: what we need is a representative sample of pairs of closely related languages (with a roughly similar time of divergence). This gives us an additional statistic, the frequency h of divergent ...

We would like to thank all reviewers for their critical comments, which we think helped to improve the quality and clarity of this manuscript. We hope our responses and adaptations are adequate to accept this manuscript for publication in Biogeosciences. Please find our detailed responses below. Anonymous Referee #2 Received and published: 19 October 2015 The manuscript of Maltby et al. describ...