When two studies last year detailed how the World Bank's research unit had been systematically manipulating data to show that neo-liberal market reforms were promoting growth and reducing poverty in developing countries, development circles were not shocked. They merely saw the devastating findings of a study by American University Professor Robin Broad and a report by Princeton University Prof...

We ask whether attitudes toward government play a causal role in the evasion of U.S. personal income taxes. We first use individual-level survey data to demonstrate a link between sharing the party of the president and trust in the administration generally and opinions on taxation and spending policy, more specifically. Next, we move to the county level, and measure tax behavior as elections, d...

We ask whether attitudes toward government play a causal role in the evasion of U.S. personal income taxes. We first use individual-level survey data to demonstrate a link between sharing the party of the president and trust in the administration generally and opinions on taxation and spending policy, more specifically. Next, we move to the county level, and measure tax behavior as elections, d...

Combination vs Monotherapy Nina Berkowitz, MPH; Michael Spaeder, MD, MS; Roberta Debiasi, MD; Nalini Singh, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; Department of Epidemiology, George Washington University, Washington DC, DC; Critical Care Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC, DC; Children’s National Medical Center/ Children’s Research Institute, Washington, DC; George Washington Universit...

Joost Overduin, Dianne P. Figlewicz, Jennifer Bennett-Jay, Sepideh Kittleson, and David E. Cummings Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, Office of Research and Development Medical Research Service, Seattle, Washington; Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; Department of Ps...

369. Outcomes of Patients with Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Jillian Raybould, MD; Kelly Carpenter, MD; Nandita Mani, MD; Richard Teran, MPH; Mashashi Waga; Princy N. Kumar, MD; Joseph G. Timpone, MD; Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Georgeto...

A. C. Tuan,1 J. D. Bryan,2 A. B. Pakhomov,3 V. Shutthanandan,4 S. Thevuthasan,4 D. E. McCready,4 D. Gaspar,4 M. H. Engelhard,4 J. W. Rogers, Jr.,4 K. Krishnan,3 D. R. Gamelin,2 and S. A. Chambers5,* 1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 3Department of Materials Science ...

16 isolates of fusarium culmorum obtained from washington, north dakota and minnesota were tested for pathogenicity on five cultivars and lines: chevron, ci 9549, excel, karl, larker, morex, robust, m48, m66 and m69 were evaluated for reaction to the mixture of all isolates of the pathogen under field condition. the results of glasshouse test indicated that the isolates 10, 25 and 27 were the m...

1 Geriatrics and Extended Care Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA 2 Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA 3 Department of Exercise Science, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA 4 Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washingt...

A long-standing debate in political economy is whether voters are driven primarily by economic self-interest or by less pecuniary motives such as ethnocentrism. Using newly available data, we reexamine one of the largest partisan shifts in a modern democracy: Southern whites’ exodus from the Democratic Party, concentrated in the 1960s. Combining high-frequency survey data and textual newspaper ...