This issue addresses the uneasy relation between 'best practices' in educational research and the consequences that often follow from efforts to implement practices deemed best. This relation is often complicated by the social phenomenon long recognized as "unintended consequences". It is proposed that controversies in education, as well as practices advanced as best, are shaped as the conseque...

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By now the importance of literacy in the process of development is widely accepted. However, unlike measuring welfare or inequality, the problem of literacy measurement remains largely unexamined. Alternatives to the standard literacy rate, R, equal to the number of literate adults as a percentage of the adult population, are not well known, but this measure has its deficiencies. In particular,...

The victory of Viktor Yanukovych in the second round of Ukraine’s 2010 presidential election has been widely portrayed as a rebuke of the 2004 Orange Revolution and the pro-Western alignment it ushered in. Even before the election, however, the effects of the Eurasian color revolutions, celebrated with such euphoria in some Western foreign policy circles in the mid-2000s, had far-reaching and u...

Both widespread adoption and meaningful assimilation are needed to achieve the full benefits of EHRs. In the U.S. the HITECH Act and its Meaningful Use (MU) program have stimulated EHR adoption to historically high levels. Questions remain about program efficacy and possible unintended consequences. In this paper, we report our analysis of Meaningful Use attestation data for the period 20112014...

Enterprise systems are used to facilitate the seamless integration and exchange of data between the various departments within an organization. In order to achieve this, rigidly defined control mechanisms must be in place in the system, which safeguard the company’s data and protect the company against unauthorized and unintended uses of the system. This is ideal for total control; however, is ...

We consider a semi-rational addiction model in which the user has perfect foresight over all things within the user’s control, but not necessarily with respect to exogenous parameter shocks, e.g., those stemming from changes in national policy. We show that addictive substances are more likely to have state-dependent solution trajectories, and that in turn can create path dependence at the macr...

OF THE UNITED STATES, 1989, at 176-77 (1989) [hereinafter 1989 CENSUS]. 8. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1978, at 187 (1978) [hereinafter 1978 CENSUS]; 1989 CENSUS, supra note 7, at 173. 9. A Scoreboard for the Anti-Drug Campaign, Boulder Daily Camera, Aug. 29, 1989, at 3, col. 1 (quoting statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Repor...

Reiter's Default Logic is one of the most popular formalisms for describing default reasoning. One important defect of Default Logic is, however, the inability to reason by cases. Over the years, several solutions for this problem have been proposed. All these proposals deal with deriving new propositions through reasoning by cases. None, however, discuss the propositions that should no longer ...

Determining fuel areal density (ρR) in moderate-ρR (100-200 mg/cm 2) cryogenic DT implosions is challenging as it requires new spectrometry techniques and analysis methods to be developed. In this paper, we describe a new method for analyzing the spectrum of knock-on deuterons (KO-D), elastically scattered by primary DT neutrons, from which a fuel ρR can be inferred for values up to ~200 mg/cm ...