In accordance with Peer Review process for US EPA's Model Calibrati on Report (MCR) for the Housatonic River (dated December 2004), I am enclosing a document entitled Comments of the General Electric Company on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Model Calibration: Modeling of PCB Contamination in the Housatonic River, which was prepared on GE's behalf by Quantit ative Environmental Anal...

In this response to comments on her book How Professors Think, Lamont discussesseveral points raised by discussants. She also contrasts their respective perspectives and the com-plementarity of their viewpoints. She identifies the questions they leave open, possible ambigui-ties in interpretation, as well as topics for future research.

Abs&act-A 3 x 2 factorial experiment was performed to compare the effects of procedure format (none, internal, or external) with those of comments (absent or present) on the readability of a PL/I program. The readability of six editions of the program, each having a different combination of these factors, was inferred from the accuracy with which students could answer questions about the progra...

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On several of the arguments put forward in the above “Comments . . .”, I feel in agreement with Semmler and Bernard. But we probably do not share exactly the same point of view on a couple of questions. The quality of their “Comments . . .” appears precisely because distinguishing between these two categories of issues can be accomplished without any ambiguity. I take up the 5 points above succ...

I thank Claire Black and Wei-Jang Huang for assistance in preparing this paper. I appreciate the comments of George Erickcek on a preliminary version of this paper. This paper was previously presented on November 20, 2009 at the 57th Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (RSQE) at the University of Michigan. I appreciate comments and questions for ...

“Pharmaceutical Processes” discusses scientific and technical principles associated with pharmaceutical unit operations useful to practitioners in compliance and validation. We intend this column to be a useful resource for daily work applications. The primary objective for this column: Useful information. Reader comments, questions, and suggestions are needed to help us fulfill our objectives....

introduction: responsive medicine is an appropriate training method which trains the graduates who can act effectively in initial and secondary aspects of health issues in the society. methods: this was a cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study which was done using quantitative method. the target population of this study was all the students of the nutrition and health school of shiraz unive...