Best-evidence medical education is an approach that promotes a culture emphasizing the use of sound empirical evidence by teachers, curriculum designers, and leaders in the medical and health professions (1). Bestevidence medical education is, therefore, conceptually opposed to decisions in medical education that are made on the basis of “pseudoscience, anecdotes, and flawed comparison groups” ...

Relational databases have been used to represent lexical knowledge since the days of machine-readable dictionaries. However, although software engineering provides a methodological framework for the construction of databases, most developing efforts focus on content, implementation and timesaving issues, and forget about the software engineering aspects of database construction. We have defined...

Abstract In one of the most influential studies on family firm internationalization, Sciascia et al. (2012) advance a curvilinear relationship between ownership and internationalization. We replicate their study adopting three-step approach. First, we use same measures different sample to test generalizability findings. Second, change independent variable hypothesize negative involvement in boa...

Recent crises in the financial industry have shown weaknesses in the modeling of Risk-Weighted Assets (RWAs). Relatively minor model changes may lead to substantial changes in the RWA numbers. Similar problems are encountered in the Value-at-Risk (VaR)-aggregation of risks. In this article, we highlight some of the underlying issues, both methodologically, as well as through examples. In partic...

I propose a reinterpretation of Peirce’s theory of pragmaticism which sees it to cater a general methodological approach, as well as a historical counterpoint, to a multiplicity of issues arising in contemporary social and behavioural sciences. This interpretation deflects methodological individualism but integrates co-evolution, abduction and triadic forms of emergence into it. It follows that...

The paper deals with the classification task, where patterns are nonstationary. The method ensures the minimum expected value of misclassifications and is independent of patterns' shapes. This procedure eliminates elements of patterns with insignificant or even negative influence on the results' accuracy. Appropriate modifications follow the classifier parameters, which increases the effectiven...

The most methodologically rigorous epidemiological study on American military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan found that 4.3% of troops developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among deployed combatants, 7.6% developed PTSD, whereas 1.4% of deployed noncombatants did so. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a program ensuring that all veterans with PTSD will re...

Social scientists have conducted dozens of studies designed to untangle the relationship between race and sentence severity. In fact, this issue “may well have been the major research inquiry for studies of sentencing in the 1970s and early 1980s.” Many of these early studies focused on the direct effect of race on sentencing, asking whether black, and occasionally Hispanic, offenders were sent...