Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199

Book review of Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199.Recensione di Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199

Your supervisor’s personality impacts you forever

Supervisors are different in their managerial abilities and in how they perceive your work, yet their decisions determine you career outcomes, write Anders Frederiksen, Lisa Kahn, and Fabian Lang

Electrification and Regional Economic Development in the Philippines

This article empirically tests for the positive effects of household electrification on the Philippine provincial income levels. Results indicate that the economic overhead capital type of investment in intermediate regions and social overhead capital type of investments in lagging regions can spearhead decisionmakers in allocating scarce resources.electricity and power

Electrification and Regional Economic Development in the Philippines

This article empirically tests for the positive effects of household electrification on the Philippine provincial income levels. Results indicate that the economic overhead capital type of investment in intermediate regions and social overhead capital type of investments in lagging regions can spearhead decisionmakers in allocating scarce resources.electricity and power

A key to the spectral variability of prompt GRBs

We demonstrate that the rapid spectral variability of prompt GRBs is an inherent property of radiation emitted from shock-generated, highly anisotropic small-scale magnetic fields. We interpret the hard-to-soft evolution and the correlation of the soft index $\alpha$ with the photon flux observed in GRBs as a combined effect of temporal variation of the shock viewing angle and relativistic aberration of an individual thin, instantaneously illuminated shell. The model predicts that about a quarter of time-resolved spectra should have hard spectra, violating the synchrotron $\alpha=-2/3$ limit. The model also naturally explains why the peak of the distribution of $\alpha$ is at $\alpha\sim-1$. The presence of a low-energy break in the jitter spectrum at oblique angles also explains the appearance of a soft X-ray component in some GRBs and their paucity. We emphasize that our theory is based solely on the first principles and contains no ad hoc (phenomenological) assumptions.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings of "Swift-05" meeting, Washington, D

Defense Spending and Economic Growth: Time-Series Evidence on Causality for the Philippines, 1956-82

This paper tests the causality issue between defense spending and economic growth in the Philippines. The results of the tests are used to provide implications for Philippine policy development.economic growth, econometric modeling

OJS for Journal Managers

Her får læseren en grundig indsigt i tidsskriftschefens arbejde med opsætning af tidsskrift. Alle detaljer vendes i en serie af videoer, der i høj grad kan være med til at gøre tidsskriftschefen fortrolig med OJS-programmets mange muligheder. PKP-OJS (Forfatter) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Redaktør af dette tidsskriftHer får læseren en grundig indsigt i tidsskriftschefens arbejde med opsætning af tidsskrift. Alle detaljer vendes i en serie af videoer, der i høj grad kan være med til at gøre tidsskriftschefen fortrolig med OJS-programmets mange muligheder. PKP-OJS (Author) Niels Erik Frederiksen (Editor of this Journal

Carpal tunnel syndrome associated with oral bisphosphonates. A population-based cohort study

© 2016 Carvajal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Background: Bisphosphonates are widely used to prevent osteoporotic fractures. Some severe musculoskeletal reactions have been described with this medication; among them, some cases of carpal tunnel syndrome. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore whether bisphosphonates may be associated with this syndrome. Methods: A cohort study was conducted to compare exposed to unexposed women; the exposed group was that composed of women having received at least one prescription of an oral bisphosphonate. For the purpose, we used information from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database. The outcome of interest was defined as those women diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. A survival analysis was performed; the Cox proportional hazard model was used to calculate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals, and to adjust for identified confounding variables. Results: Out of a sample of 59,475 women older than 51 years, 19,825 were treated with bisphosphonates during the period studied. No differences in age distribution or mean follow-up time were observed between the two groups in comparison. Overall, there were 572 women diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, 242 (1.2%) in the group exposed to bisphosphonates, and 330 (0.8%) in the unexposed. An adjusted hazard ratio of developing carpal tunnel syndrome of 1.38 (95%CI, 1.15-1.64) was found for women exposed to bisphosphonates; no significant changes in the hazard ratios were found when considering different levels of bisphosphonate exposure