Getting it Straight: Avoiding Blunders While Criticizing a Peer’s Work Steven G Achinger, Alan S Go and Juan Carlos Ayus* Department of Nephrology, Watson Clinic, LLP – Lakeland, FL, USA, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA, Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, Re...

This paper suggests that the Irish experience of social partnership does not fully overlap with mainstream employment relations literature on the topic. Three features in particular distinguish the Irish case. One is the importance attached to a procedural consensus that allows advances to be made on partnership at work without full agreement between employers and unions about the substantive e...

Early in an epidemic, high densities of susceptible hosts select for relatively high parasite virulence; later in the epidemic, lower susceptible densities select for lower virulence. Thus over the course of a typical epidemic the average virulence of parasite strains increases initially, peaks partway through the epidemic, then declines again. However, precise quantitative outcomes, such as th...

“south caucasus” has always been part of the most challenging regions of the world and it is considered very crucial for europe to maintain its security.“eastern partnership plan” (eap), which is part of neighborhood policy of eu (european :union:) started in the country a short time after the war between georgia and russia in 2008, in fact, it was interpreted as the europe’s response to russia...