The research at University College London School of Medicine (UCLSM) is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Action Research, the Special Trustees of University College Hospital, and the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain. The studies have been carried out with the assistance of Dr. P. S. Tofts, Mr. D. Delpy and Mr. A. Chu of the Department of Medical Physics (UCLSM), and Mr. N.Taylor of Kin...

System-initiated digressive proposals may be used to introduce new and unexpected information into automated telephone services. These digressions may be viewed as particularly pronounced forms of unsolicited interruptions as they contain information not directly related to the caller’s intended activity. In human–human conversation, interruptions are considered to be speech acts which intrinsi...

Enrolment rates to higher education reveal quite large variation over time which cannot be explained by productivity shocks alone. We develop a human capital investment model in an overlapping generations framework that features endogenous fluctuations in the demand for education. Agents are heterogeneous in their beliefs about future wage differentials. An evolutionary competition between the ...

the goal of human development as can be understood by concept is to benefit every person in his / her life. it means improvement in living quality & standards. while the extension of employment and increasing of income are necessary , they are not the goals of development, but means to extend human development. the goal of development is to grow and extend of human abilities. human development ...

Increased public attention to the costs of healthcare in the United States has resulted in greater scrutiny of all aspects of the health industry, including the education of healthcare providers. Because Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists will, as in the past, have a major role in healthcare delivery systems of the future, knowledge of the educational costs and resulting benefits of this a...

Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education: An Asian Instrument This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the first child's gender. For the sample of South Korean households I find strong e...

PE investment is comparatively mature in developed countries. Along with the growing of PE investment in China in recent years, hi-tech enterprises of high growth potential are favored by PE investor. However, hi-tech enterprises in China are short of sufficient skills of strategy for bringing in foreign capital and objective qualifications in introducing PE investment. Therefore, this article ...

Despite a significant global investment in continuing professional education (CPE) in nursing and health care (Jordan, 2000) and a lack of empirical evidence of its effectiveness (Clark, 2005; Attree, 2006), it has nevertheless continued to be a focus of UK government lifelong learning strategies. For example, the Department of Health in England asserted that ‘Every aspect of healthcare deliver...

This paper uses an overlapping generations framework to analyze the implications of different financing regimes in the education sector for human capital formation and economic welfare. Agents privately invest in education after they have received a noisy information signal about their abilities. The incentives of the individuals to invest in education are determined by the financing regime und...