Studies of how patients respond to treatment over time are fundamentally important to understanding how therapies influence quality of life and progression of disease during

I shall refer to the reading in (1b) as the ‘bound reading’ of sentence (1), and to the reading in (1a) as the ‘strict reading’ of (1). The availability of the bound reading in (1) and sentences akin to it has garnered a healthy amount of attention in recent years (Heim 1991, Kratzer 1998, Heim 2002, Rullmann 2003, Schlenker 2003, von Stechow 2003, Kratzer 2005, Schlenker 2005). The prima facie...

Introduction The development of attachment measures began with the assessment of infant behaviour, in the Strange Situation Paradigm. This procedure and the establishment of its validity led to the ‘move to the level of representations’ (Main, Kaplan, & Cassidy, 1985), in the assessment of attachment patterns later in development. The greatest achievement here was the Adult Attachment Interview...

Decades of research suggest that a stable, marriage protects adult partners against premature death and illness, and provides children with the best physical health outcomes. The relationship of marriage to better health outcomes continues to be found in the most recent national health surveys and longitudinal studies. These studies indicate married adults live longer and enjoy better physical ...

One major goal in clinical applications of time-to-event data is the estimation of survival with censored data. The usual nonparametric estimator of the survival function is the time-honored Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimator. Though this estimator has been implemented in several R packages, the development of the condSURV R package has been motivated by recent contributions that allow the es...

In this paper, confirming a conjecture of Kaplan et al., we prove that every abelian group G, which is of odd order or contains exactly three involutions, has the zerosum-partition property. As a corollary, every tree with |G| vertices and at most one vertex of degree 2 is G-anti-magic.

A posteriori error estimates for the obstacle problem are established in the framework of the hypercircle method. To this end, we provide a general theorem of Prager– Synge type. There is now no generic constant in the main term of the estimate. Moreover, the role of edge terms is elucidated, and the analysis also applies to other types of a posteriori error estimators for obstacle problems.

The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss public performance management in general and performance appraisal and pay for performance specifically. Performance is a topic that is a popular catch-cry and performance management has become a new organizational ideology. Under the global economic crisis, almost every public and private organization is struggling with a performance challenge...