The extremely weak propagation mechanisms of real business cycle (RBC) models are well acknowledged, and some effort has been devoted to improving the models on this dimension. This paper builds on these efforts to provide an explicit explanation of why various existing RBC models do not replicate real world business cycles, and discusses modifications necessary to bring real business cycle the...

BACKGROUND The Canadian health system is undergoing reform. Over the past decade a prominent trend has been creation of health regions. This structural shift is concurrent with a greater emphasis on population health and the broad determinants of health. In parallel, there is a movement toward more intersectoral collaboration (i.e., collaboration between diverse segments of the health system, a...

sir, the recent publication on “publication ethics” is very interesting (1). the article by fazly bazzaz and sadeghi demonstrated many interesting cases                   of misconducts. indeed, the misconducts can be seen  in many ways. as mentioned in the present publication, both author and editor can perform publication misconducts. nevertheless, the problem has many more facets. sometimes,...

BACKGROUND: Google Wave was touted as the next big communication tool-combining e-mail, social networking, and chat within a single "wave"-with the potential to create a new world for collaboration. Information professionals who are knowledgeable of this tool and its capabilities could become uniquely situated to use it, evaluate it, and teach it. This seemed especially true for those working w...

Using a question and answer format we describe important aspects of using genomic technologies in cancer research. The main challenges are not managing the mass of data, but rather the design, analysis, and accurate reporting of studies that result in increased biological knowledge and medical utility. Many analysis issues address the use of expression microarrays but are also applicable to oth...

A. Ali Khan, T. Bakeyev, M. Göckeler, R. Horsley, A. C. Irving , D. Pleiter, P. Rakow , G. Schierholz, and H. Stüben (QCDSF and UKQCD Collaborations) Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, 04109 Leipzig, Germany Institut für Theoretische Physik, U...

In 2001 the Illawarra Division of Population Health (in the former Illawarra Health) identified the broader environmental determinants of health as a service-wide priority. Environmental determinants were identified as those amenable to intervention, of regional interest and reliant on the development of strong intersectoral cooperation to achieve mutually desired outcomes between sectors: heal...

BACKGROUND The present study aims to test out contextually tailored interventions to increase evidence-informed health-enhancing physical activity policy-making in two Danish municipalities. METHODS The study was performed as experiments in natural settings. Based on results from a pre-intervention study defining the needs and contexts of the two settings, the interventions were developed bas...