Am J Manag Care, 20(17):SP39-SP47
Author(s): Ajit Appari, Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony
Objectives
To determine whether health information technology (IT) systems are associated with better patient safety in acute care settings.
Study Design
In a cross-sectional retrospective study, data on hospital patient safety performance for October 2008 to June 2010…
Speculum 88(1): 44-91
Author(s): M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
In 1293, only two years after the fall of Acre, but many years before the end of crusading aspirations to reclaim Jerusalem, William Durandus, Bishop of Mende, composed a new rite for those taking up the cross "to go in aid of the Holy…
Mountain Research and Development, 34(2):85-94
Authors: Geoff Childs, Sienna Craig, Cynthia Beall, and Buddha Basnyat
Communities that have thrived for centuries in Nepal's rugged mountain environments are facing rapid population declines caused by the outmigration of youths, both males and females in nearly equal numbers, who are sent by parents…
Nations and Nationalism 16(1): 89-107
Author(s): John Campbell and John Hall
The teleological functionalism of Gellner's theory of nationalism has been much criticized. Attention here is on a different matter, namely Gellner's basic premise – that national homogeneity is a condition for societal success. We defend this view in a…
Author(s): Bridget Alex, Deborah Nichols, and Michael Glascock
During the Classic Period, Teotihuacan was an economic centre of central Mexico, but little is known about the development of this system. This paper presents a pilot study in multi-method analysis of Formative Period (1500/1400 bc – 150 ad) ceramics…
Sociological Methods and Research 00(0):1-27
Author(s): John Campbell, Charles Quincy, Jordan Osserman, and Ove Pedersen
Many social science studies are based on coded in-depth semistructured interview transcripts. But researchers rarely report or discuss coding reliability in this work. Nor is there much literature on the subject for this type of…
Author(s): Deborah Nichols, Hector Neff, and George Cowgill
George Brainerd directed excavations at Cerro Portezuelo in the mid-1950s to understand the Classic to Postclassic transition and the questions he asked are still salient. We have undertaken a reanalysis of the artifacts, survey, and excavation data from…
Current Anthropology 56(2): 178-204
Author(s): Calum Blaikie, Sienna Craig, Barbara Gerke, and Theresia Hofer
This article emerges from a workshop titled “Producing Efficacious Medicine: Quality, Potency, Lineage, and Critically Endangered Knowledge,” held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in December 2011. An experiment in collaborative event ethnography (CEE), this workshop brought together Tibetan…
Cortex, Volume 50, January 2014, Pages 200–203.
People frequently evaluate facial attractiveness and make inferences about character traits from faces, and these evaluations are consistent across observers (Todorov, Said, & Verosky, 2011). Do these face evaluations rely on the same perceptual mechanisms as facial identity recognition? By using three test…
The need to cultivate political support for nominations to higher office creates a conflict of interest for U.S. attorneys and the prosecutors they supervise in cases involving the two major parties. We find evidence of partisan differences in the timing of public corruption case filings around elections. Relative to the…