Recently, Frazier et al. proposed a natural model for crowdsourced exploration of different a priori unknown options: a principal is interested in the long-term welfare of a population of agents who arrive one by one in a multi-armed bandit setting. However, each agent is myopic, so in order to incentivize him to explore options with better long-term prospects, the principal must offer the agen...

The normal myelination of neuronal axons is essential to neurodevelopment, allowing fast inter-neuronal communication. The most dynamic period of myelination occurs in the first few years of life, in concert with a dramatic increase in cognitive abilities. How these processes relate, however, is still unclear. Here we aimed to use a data-driven technique to parcellate developing white matter in...

The Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU), funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care, consists of Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Linda O’Brien-Pallas at the Toronto site (see profile in CJNL Volume 21 Number 1) and Dr. Andrea Baumann at the McMaster site. The NHSRU has a multidisciplinary team of 46 co-investigators and more than 50 researchers representing nursing, bus...

BACKGROUND This paper examines what has been achieved in the specialist mental health services by the vastly increased health expenditures that the National Health Service (NHS) has enjoyed in the past 5 years. AIMS To describe the way money has been spent in specialist mental health services and examine why problems remain after such admirable changes to already available resources. METHOD...

The role of water in the locational bundle of residential value and choice determinants is multiple. Relevant attributes pertain to water quality, proximity and length of water frontage, view, size of water body, coastal development costs, and costs caused by flooding. They also pertain to different types of water: the sea, lake, river and so on. This is a systematic literature review of the in...