People have numerous ways of negotiating their interaction with imperfect technologies. Descriptions of these practices can be found scattered throughout literature, but always at the edges, or mentioned as interesting cases. Rarely (if ever) are forms of negotiated use the central focus. This paper develops the concept of negotiated use as way of engaging with technology that shares attributes...

The p-value is a widely used tool for inference in clinical studies. However, despite the numerous books and papers published on the basics of statistical inference and, thus, on the p-value, there still seems to be a need to highlight what message the p-value exactly contains (and what it does not). In this article, the basic concepts and the different misconceptions regarding the p-value will...

This paper, focused primarily on UK data and debates, considers the potential significance of travel time use within past, present and future patterns of mobility. In transport scheme appraisal, savings in travel time typically represent a substantial proportion of the benefits of a scheme – benefits used to justify its often enormous financial costs. Such benefits are founded on the assumption...

Accompanying the growth of the knowledge sector in many economies is an increased interest in property rights for the knowledge being created by firms and individuals, that is, in the protection of those rights via Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). IPRs include patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and a number of more specialized instruments such as plant patents. Because these rig...

Mobile and ubiquitous technologies are considered one of the currently developed technology innovations with greater market potential in the coming future. Such technologies integrate a whole set of IT-based applications used in the private or working environment of individuals and provide extensive service capacities to support users in carrying out several activities and (work) processes. Cha...

Background There is a growing body of literature on evidence-informed priority setting. However, the literature on the use of evidence when setting healthcare priorities in low-income countries (LICs), tends to treat the healthcare system (HCS) as a single unit, despite the existence of multiple programs within the HCS, some of whic...