What is the marginal effect of competitiveness on the power of electoral incentives? Addressing this question empirically is difficult because challenges to incumbents are endogenous to their behavior in office. To overcome this obstacle, we exploit a unique feature of Kansas courts: fourteen districts employ partisan elections to select judges, while seventeen employ noncompetitive retention e...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to explore the value of reflection and its application to practice through the implementation of educational modules within a new Diabetes Care and Education Master Degree Programme in Kuwait, and to realise how this teaching intervention informs changes in practice. METHODS A small exploratory case study was conducted within the Dasman Diabetes Inst...

This paper examines lone motherhood through the lens of narrative identity. The data consists of the written life stories of seventeen Finnish lone mothers. The focus is on how lone mothers from two different age cohorts construct their identity around motherhood and lone motherhood. Thus historical context becomes an important element in the analysis.

منطقة مورد مطالعه در نیمة شمال‌شرق نیریز استان فارس واقع شده است. ازنظر زمین‌شناسی ساختاری، زون سنندج‌ـ سیرجان و با روند عمومی شمال‌غرب‌ـ جنوب‌شرق قرار دارد. واحدهای را آهکی، سریسیت‌ـ‌ کلریت شیست آمفیبولیتی تشکیل می‌دهند. این پژوهش، از تصاویر سنجندة استر (ASTER) داده‌های مغناطیس‌سنجی زمینی، به‌منظور پتانسیل‌یابی شناسایی نواحی امیدبخش دگرسانی تحلیلی بر سیستم حاکم کانی‌زایی آهن‌دار مطالعه، استفاد...

ITH INCREASING DEMAND for the determination of urinary total 17-ketosteroids as a diagnostic tool, a need has developed for a , rapid method suitable for clinical use. Such a method was pubby Drekter et al. (1) and modified by Masuda and Thuline (2). We further modified the latter method to permit a larger number of s to be run at one time. We have substituted equipment which is akable and less...

BACKGROUND Bottom-up, clinician-conceived and directed clinical intervention research, coupled with collaboration from researcher experts, is conceptually endorsed by the participatory research movement. This report presents the findings of an evaluation of a program in the Veterans Health Administration meant to encourage clinician-driven research by providing resources believed to be critical...