The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...

1. Simple labor supply models with correction for non-participation (PS #3) 2. Other approaches to kinked budget sets discretization 3. Dynamic labor supply introduction and overview Readings Thomas A. Mroz. “The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women’s Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions.” Econometrica, 55 (4) (July, 1987), pp. 765-799. Arthur van Soest "Structura...

LVAD is a mechanical pump supporting a weak heart function and blood flow. Sometimes, the heart may not recover fast enough to take over the pumping action immediately after surgery, in such patients a temporary support device has been employed to maintain the pumping action until the patient’s own heart recovers. This device can be considered as a temporary alternative before the process of ar...

Re-Readings is a space in which scholars use review format to return and reflect on book that has influenced their thinking scholarship; these books might be established or overlooked, from within theatre performance studies beyond.

given the importance of theology and best ways of knowing it in the islamic culture, this article is intended to examine the method of self-knowledge according to the ḥadīth, man ‘arafa nafsa faqad ‘arafa rabba (he who knows himself knows his lord) from the viewpoint of the shī‘a scholars and try to recognize the components of this noble ḥadīth by way of analysis and examine its different exper...

Scientists are taking technology in common laboratory usage for more than 15 years and adapting it in ways that may, quite literally, bring the laboratory into the field. The technology is known as surface plasmon resonance (SPR), and a team of scientists has taken a sensing unit that was once the size of an old-fashioned console television and shrunken it down into a handheld unit no bigger th...