Clinicians often attach interpretive significance to high variability among subtest scores in IQ profiles of adults and children. In this study we evaluated the external validity of a relatively new measure of IQ subtest variability, the profile variability index (PVI). Within a sample of referred children, we administered the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, the Fourth Edition Stanford...

We will leave to later the explanation of exactly what the 95% confidence level means. For now, we’ll note that taken together the width of the interval and the confidence level provide a measure on the strength of the evidence supporting the hypothesis that the μ is close to our estimate x. You should think of the confidence level of an interval as analogous to the significance level of a NHST...

We examine the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on behavior in Tullock contests. We report on a series of two-player Tullock contest experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and Muslim participants in rural West Bengal, India. Our treatments are the identity of the two players and the degree of religious fragmentation in the village where subjects res...

(2004). Using an interpretive research group to teach communication and understanding in undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing students. Abstract: An interpretive research group based in existential phenomenology is used to facilitate student learning about skills central to nursing-communicating, listening, and a genuine understanding of "the other"-in an undergraduate psychiatric-me...

Interpreters and just-in-time (JIT) compilers are ubiquitous in modern computer systems, making it important to have good program analyses for reasoning about such systems. Control dependence, which plays a fundamental role in a number of program analyses, is an important contender in this regard. Existing algorithms for (dynamic) control dependence analysis do not take into account some import...

Can the practice and science of medicine ever be reconciled? Several years ago, The Lancet introduced a series of occasional duets entitled, ambitiously, “science and practice.” The idea was to commission 2 writers to review a subject — for example, Parkinson’s disease, heart failure, chronic renal failure — in these constituent parts. Once the underlying biology and epidemiology were set out, ...

In this paper we explored three areas: decision making and information seeking, the relationship between information seeking and uncertainty, and the role of expertise in influencing information use. This was undertaken in the context of a qualitative study into decision making in the initial stages of emergency response to major incidents. The research took an interpretive approach in which ac...

We summarize the investigation reported in our papers 5], 6], 7], and 8], and describe the hitherto unpublished conclusion to the project. In particular, we outline the analytic technique we developed|Layered Formalism and Zooming|and apply it to the analysis of a class of stylized documents. We also describe and use a new kind of grammar, interpretive grammar, based upon the interpretive state...