Estimating Top Income and Wealth Shares: Sensitivity to Data and Methods

Administrative income tax data indicate that U.S. top income and wealth shares are both substantial and larger than shares observed in household surveys. However, these estimates are sensitive to the unit of analysis, the income concept measured in tax records, and, in the case of wealth, to assumptions about the correlation between income and wealth. We constrain a household survey—the Survey of Consumer Finances—to be conceptually comparable to tax records and are able to reconcile the much of the difference between the survey and administrative estimates. Wealth estimates from administrative income tax data are sensitive to model parameters

A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex

Motor cortex (M1) has been thought to form a continuous somatotopic homunculus extending down the precentral gyrus from foot to face representation

Salivary Markers for Oral Cancer Detection

Oral cancer refers to all malignancies that arise in the oral cavity, lips and pharynx, with 90% of all oral cancers being oral squamous cell carcinoma. Despite the recent treatment advances, oral cancer is reported as having one of the highest mortality ratios amongst other malignancies and this can much be attributed to the late diagnosis of the disease. Saliva has long been tested as a valuable tool for drug monitoring and the diagnosis systemic diseases among which oral cancer. The new emerging technologies in molecular biology have enabled the discovery of new molecular markers (DNA, RNA and protein markers) for oral cancer diagnosis and surveillance which are discussed in the current review

The performance of college-educated police: A study of self-rated police performance measures

This study addresses a long-standing debate in law enforcement circles, as to whether or not college-educated police officers perform better during their course of duties than do officers without a college degree. Two hundred and five police officers with varying levels of education participated in this study of job performance. In a number of categories, the college-educated police officers (those possessing a bachelor's degree) rated themselves higher on a self-report performance instrument than did police officers without bachelor's degrees