Sunday, 31 March 2013
bloger hots
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Science of Blogging
The presentation, entitled “How to win friends and influence people with social media” covers the following topics Why researchers and graduate students use social mediaThepros cons of being an How to build a basic strategy for taking your research onlineEnjoy the video and please share with any colleagues who might be interested. for the start of the talk. Looking forward to your comments!A few weeks ago I was approached by the folks at Petridish.org, asking if I’d be interested in doing a post on their science crowdfunding site. I’m fascinated by crowdfunding and think that it has a huge amount of potential, both as a means of funding science, and as a means of incentivizing science communication – in a world where the public funds your research directly, you have much more incentive to communicate with them about your work. Since I didn’t know much about Petridish.org at the time, I asked if one of their founders would be interested in doing an interview with me instead. Below is that interview, with Petridish.org co-founder Matt Salzberg. More on Matt can be found at the bottom of this post.I have yet to try crowdfunding myself, but if you have any experience with Petridish or any other crowdfunding platform (or thoughts on which platformwill eventually succeed .
Science Power
1. Simple question: what is crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding reflects the power of the internet to pool the collective actions of many small participants to make a larger project happen. In the case of Petridish.org, we help scientists and researchers raise funding for their projects from people who are passionate about their work.
Petridish.org is the largest crowdfunding website devoted entirely to science and research funding.Researchers post materials about a project they want to launch, and contributors on our site can donate to those projects in exchange for rewards and other tokens of appreciation.Typically, researchers set a goal and a deadline by which they hope to raise the money. If they reach the goal by the deadline, then the project is successfully funded. If they don’t reach the goal, no money changes hands.Historically, if you had to assess the quality of a study without having the luxury of reading it, you would probably ask two questions: If published, how prestigious is the journal?While far from perfect, these questions give a general sense of the quality of a piece of research. Something that was published in Nature is likely of higher quality than something published in a small society journal and both of these papers are likely to be of higher quality than a paper that has been rejected from multiple journals and now sits unpublished in a desk drawer.This quick and dirty assessment of paper quality worked for a long time, since there were a fairly limited number of journals where you could publish research on any given topic. If peer reviewers deemed your work to be of high enough quality and/or impact, then it was accepted for publication. If not, it went unpublished. That served as a simple, albeit crude, way to assess the quality of a study or experiment. If no one was willing to publish your paper, then it must not be of very high qualityTaken a step further, these questions can also be used to assess the quality of a researcher. Are you publishing many peer-reviewed papers? Are they in top journals? If the answer to either of those questions is no, then the implication would be that your research was of lower quality than someone who answered yes.There are problems with this line of reasoning (among several obvious problems: not all papers that get rejected are low quality, and not all papers that sneak through the peer review process are high quality), but in general I would say that many people were happy with the system, since it was simple and reasonably effective at keeping movement system.
2. What gave you the idea for starting Petridish.org? 
Before starting Petridish.org, I worked at a large venture capital firm and became interested in the power of the internet to transform the way things were funded. One website, kickstarter had become very successful in raising money for art and creative projects. I wanted to bring that power to science funding, which is an interest area of mine and is an area that desperately needs new models for funding.There are a few things that make us different. First, we’ve focused on building a high quality, fun webexperience for contributors. Aside from our focus on design, we hand select only the most interesting and impactful projects to feature on our site, including those with great videos, pictures and rewards. Many of the existing sites focus exclusively on the experience for the scientist raising money– we cater to both sides of the marketplace.Second, we only do “all or nothing” funding. We do this because it protects the scientist from having to do a project without sufficient funding and it protects contributors who wouldn’t want to donate to a project that doesn’t have enough funding to go through. It also encourages people to really pull together to promote a project, since a project won’t happen without enlisting the support of others as well.A few weeks ago there were a number of interesting posts floating around the web discussing the appropriateness of science blogging as a form of self-promotion (see this post by Scicurious for an excellent backgrounder) . This is an issue that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about – communicating with people about our own research wasn’t the only reason that Peter and I got into blogging, but it was a very big part of it. And it’s one of the main reasons why I advocate for researchers to get involved in social media.Out of curiosity I put up a poll asking people whether they felt it was ok for a person to blog about their own research, and today I thought I would share those results (sorry for the longer than expected delay getting them posted).Academic self-promotion is good. Knowing and meeting the right people, staying in touch and making sure they remember who you are. Academic self-promotion is in fact more than good, it’s essential. The sad reality of biomedical science as I know it is that no one will fund your work if they don’t have a clue who you are. By “you”, I don’t mean you personally (though that certainly helps), but who you have trained with, who THAT person trained with, who’s in your department, and what you all have done. Grant people like to call this “evidence of past productivity”, and “training environment”, but what it really means is whether or not you’ve published, and who do you work with that they’ve heard of. There’s a reason we refer to papers as “Smith et al, 2011″, and not by their titles, because by referring to that person we are referring to their body of work, their history, and their expertise.This means you have to do a lot of self-promotion within academia. We call this “networking”, “presenting at conferences”, “chatting up the seminar speaker at lunch”, and in extreme cases “brown nosing”. This is the “good” kind of self-promotion, the kind that we get a lot of lectures about.I’ve always been surprised by the view that blogging about your own work is somehow not Kosher (keeping in mind that I’m a bit biased since this was explicitly one of the reasons why Peter and I began blogging in the first place, and our field of study lends itself to knowledge translation activities). If it’s ok to do a plenary session or media interview or editorial/review paper explaining how your work fits into the larger context, I don’t see why it’s off-side to post similar things on a blog. Trashing another research group at a conference or in a Letter to the Editor would have at least as large an impact on the field as doing so on a blog, no?I don’t disagree that this can potentially lead to changes in a paper’s citation count or its impact on the field, but is that by default a bad thing? Is it better for a good paper to languish uncited because it’s in a journal no one reads, or is it better for people to find out about that paper on your blog? If a person were lying about their own research that’s one thing, but if I you are telling people accurate information about your own work as well as other work in your field of research, I don’t see why this should be a problem. And as Sci points out, if you start playing up your work as something it’s not, that is going to bite you in the butt pretty quickly.The one qualification that I would add is that if you are writing about your own work, I think it’s critical that you let people know it’s your own. Trashing your competitors and praising your own work, without letting your readers know about your conflict of interest, would be absolutely inappropriate. But if you are transparent about your position and potential bias, then I think it’s a completely legitimate form of scientific communication.
Friday, 29 March 2013
Bloger Search Technology
Therapy is looking for a few bloggers to help us cover Boston & New England and bring their unique voice to our team. Do you love interior design, furniture and all things home-related? Would you like a place to share your ideas and inspirations with a large design-centric community? Think you would like to join the Apartment Therapy team? If this is you, jump below for the details.Specifically, we're looking for someone who has a passion for home design and can turn that into a daily post. Candidates should also be able to provide a weekly column that follows a specific "beat".This is a part-time, paid, freelance position and it's great if your other gigs plug you in to the design scene in some way.
REQUIREMENTS
• excellent camera skills and a good eye for stellar images
• a strong style sense
• blog-style writing skills
• a reliable computer
• a reliable high speed internet connection
• a decent (if not amazing) digital camera
• Photoshop / Photoshop Elements or image editing equivalent
• knowledge of how to use all these thingsWe want to be with your unique voice and awesome pictures! written specifically for Apartment Therapy and not for another blog. Look to the Apartment Therapy city sites for the general style and format of posts for.For specific examples of the types of sample posts, check out these past examples:
STYLE ROUNDUPS
• Roundup: Updated Southwest & Western Style
• Color Inspiration: Coastal Hues
• Five More Plate Covers for Outdoor Dining
• WoodWise
• Retrospect
• Sofa Sleeper of the Week
POTENTIAL COLUMN SUBJECT MATTER
• Tile Expert/Market Editor
• Paint Expert/Market Editor
• Urban Gardening /Flowers & Plants
• Design/Interior Book Reviews
• Kitchen Renovation
• Bathroom Renovation
• Before & After Project Expert
• wow us with your own idea!Are there any plans to expand the cities that Apartment Therapy covers?Maybe you could introduce a monthly feature that covers the local trends, artists and designers from a variety of cities and towns across.i've emailed a couple of times inquiring about Florida representation to no avail. i think we have a good mix of foreign design influences depending on where you are mid century art deco rumblings and quirky beachside towns.
Bloger Mashable
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Generally, the blogs are hosted by at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had or still haveto be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In FPyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features which to become free. In, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos has launched updated versions of its Blogger mobile apps for Android and bringing the version number on both platforms to. The biggest new feature in the iOS app is iPad support, and other notable improvements include an improved user.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Bloger Lifestyle Conference
Vida Vegan is the best extended family ever! Our group is filled with so much creativity and productivity, all spreading the good vegan word through words and sights and sounds. VVC alum Carrie Forrest has created Vegan Delish, a whole foods recipe app for Apple handheld devices. We wanted to know more!breakfast,Portland, sponsorships, updates,Vida Vegan My, how exciting the response has been to our call for local vegan eateries to get even more involved with Vida Vegan Con! We now proudly present the lineup for the first ever Portland Vegan Breakfast Showcase, in random, rotating order: Naturally, we wanted to bring new and exciting aspects to Vida What’s sadder than the last cookieNo cookie at all. Yeah, so even with more registrant spots this year, we’re still running out of space for y’all. Wow. Our handy little PayPal inventory alert told us we are down to 30 tickets for our three-day weekend of learning and funning and eating and sharing.· by jess sconĂ© · in Sponsor Vida Vegan Con, sponsorships, updates, vegan, The deadline for getting involved with Vida Vegan Con, returning this May to Portland, has arrived. Remaining options include: Place your full-color advertisement in our program (2 spaces left, send your art in ASAP) Donate product under our Beet Salad options Donate snacks to our fancy schmancy Saturday night Galarama (whose Silent Auction benefitsason Das, the co-founder of both SuperVegan and Vegan Drinks, is returning to Vida Vegan Con this May to share his expertise and thoughts in a few of our exciting panels and classes: Ethics Beyond the Plate, Vegan Invasion: Community Building, and Tech for Effective Web Presence. For this third class, Jason asked us if he could Whew, your friendly conference organizers are back from Austin, and diving right back into conference-planning hyperdrive! It’s not as if we stopped in Texas, of course, but we were there to research a new Vida Vegan possibility, see some friends, and eat a taco or two, or ten. And all the chips & salsaVegan .
Our group is filled with so much creativity and productivity, all spreading the good vegan word through words and sights and sounds. VVC alum Carrie Forrest (Carrie on Vegan) has created Vegan Delish, a whole foods recipe app for Apple handheld devices. We wanted to know more! My, how exciting the response has been to our call for local vegan eateries to get even more involved with Vida Vegan Con! We now proudly present the lineup for the first ever Portland Vegan Breakfast Showcase, in random, rotating order: Naturally, we wanted to bring new and exciting aspects to Vida Vegan Con II You’re invited… It’s the official Unofficial Meet & Greet. In town early (or live in town)? Join us Thursday, May 23, for Happy Hour at one of Portland’s newest veg-friendly joints. Hug old friends. Shake the hands of new ones. Get to know your fellow attendees over cocktails and root beer and maybe even some [...]What’s sadder than the last cookie? No cookie at all. Yeah, so even with 100 more registrant spots this year, we’re still running out of space for.
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
OCDQ Blogers
Bloger word press websites
Word press I published a post entitled WordPress vs. Blogger vs. Tumblr, Free Artist Websiteswhere I wrote a brief overview of the pros / cons and features / benefits of these three different hosting sites. I included a link to an example website or blog for each one. Since the post and the example links have been a large number of clicks, I thought it would be useful to post more examples of artist websites created on WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr.The artist James Fowler uses the WordPress theme . The site has been configured to appear as a static landing page, more as a website portfolio than a blog. There are clear links featured at the top of the website which link to images, cv, contact info, information tecnices komunications and other pages.Hugo Baeta’s Photomaton blog actually uses the same theme as The Practical Art World,For his site it has been customized to appear extremely clean and uncluttered, focusing simply on the photographs Art and Design blog, because it is set up to show
The blog section features ephemera, inspiration, and photographs while the portfolio shows Nicole’s own design work. To build her site, Nicole uses the WordPress theme MistyLookArtist Marina Garrison has set up a clean, easy to navigate blog to record her studio practice and artistic goings-on. Because the design is un-cluttered, it’s simple and quick to find the link to her art website at the top of the pagIllustrator, artist, and writer Karlene Harvey uses .
The simplicity of the white background and the text colours makes for a very appealing visual presentationMatty Spencer has an excellent set up on Blogger where clear headings at the top sort his posts into different categories. The design is simple but very slick..This tumblr site features photographs by Matt W Jennings in a simple, clean format. It’s a blog-style feed of photographs, but the layout allows for his regular website and flickr page to be easily accessed. The theme used on this blog is called JSTNI’m using the Black-LetterHead by Ulysses Ronquillo from WordPress.com for my blog Graphic Anthropology. 35 years of painting, plus essays from my university days. Thanks for this page. Very useful information. Let me know if I can help. I post almost everyday.
Monday, 25 March 2013
Bloger Project Professional 2013
Project Professional 2013 gives you powerful new ways to effectively manage important projects. Unlock easy collaboration capabilities to quickly start and deliver winning projects while leveraging the power of Office 365 or SharePoint to work from virtually nywhereMakecommunication instantaneous through seamless integration of Lync 2013 to call or inastant message team members from Project Professional. Extend Project’s functionality with Apps for Office to meet your specific business needs.Easily plan & manage your projects with intuitive controls and flexible team tools to help your organization deliver the intended business value.Quickly focus on what matters, easily select actions to take, and seamlessly browse functions with an enhanced visual experience.Tap into the latest Project templates on Office.com from within Project to get started quickly.Stay organized by having quick access to recent files and location from the Backstage.Stay in control of your project plans no matter the size.Rich, out-of-the-box reporting tools within a familiar Office-like experience help you quickly . .
With Task Path highlighting in the Gantt chart, you always know how your tasks come together and identify which are most critical to your project’s success.Focus on what matters most in a contextual user interface to organize tasks, link tasks, and create timelines.Manage anywhere with tools to keep you connected Create your project site with a few simple clicks to quickly share project details with your team, keeping everyone connected and organized.The Project timeline view helps you visualize your project to deliver stellar presentations to your team, executives, and stakeholders.Easily share insights that help you better communicate progress and achieve results.Use out-of-the-box reports such as Burndown and Resource Overview, or create your own with a familiar Excel-like experience to quickly measure progress and communicate effectively with your team, executives and stakeholders.Easily copy and paste from Project to familiar Office applications like Word and PowerPoint without losing fidelity or the ability to make changes to labels and styles.Anticipate Change with forward-looking views into the everyday work going into your projects and the resources needed to get that work done.Enhanced tools like Team Planner help you see and amend potential problems before they can impact your schedule.With Project, you can set tasks and quickly analyze scenarios without recreating your entire project plan.The new Office Store provides extend the functionality of Project to solve unique problems to meet your needs and the needs of your business.Find apps at Office.com and choose distribution options or provide access through a corporate app catalog.Tap into robust application architecture with a readily for custom programmability.Work seamlessly across tools to help everyone on your team work together with the information they need to besuccessful.Project works well to give you a complete collaborative project management system.Easily copy project in.
Task list synchronization between Project or SharePoint is better than ever and helps you quickly deliver project information to your team and easily receive their changes from virtually in real time with team members down the hall or across the globe with tools designed to transmit your critical conversations quickly and securely.See whether a team member is available to talk or instant message with Lync by glancing at their presence status in your project plan.Send instant messages to kick off real-time conversations and shared meeting spaces right from your project with Lync Online integration between Project and .Deliver project information, effectively track status, and receive changes from virtually anywhere by using improved list synchroBe efficient and prioritize by aggregating everyday work, project tasks, important details, and timelines in a visually rich and contextual interface.Deliver effective presentations that offer immediate insight into task planning, resource allocation, cost efficiencies, and the many important details of your projects.Explore the Office Store to quickly innovate with flexible options to customize and extend out-of-the-box capabilities.
Bloger Professional
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Sony unveils the waterproof phone Bloger
sony i phone waterproof Bloger.Xperia Z handset is electronic giant's new flagship it hopes will compete with the iPhone and Samsung GalaxRunss Android software, and set to go on sale in MarchHas waterproof coatingIt is the mobile phone you can use in the bath or shower without fear - and can even survive being dropped down the toilet.Sony has unveiled its latest mobile phone - and hopes the waterproof design will help it take on the iPhone.The Xperia Z was unveiled at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.Sony says the handset, which has a 5in screen, is capable of being submerged in water of up to one metre (3.3 ft) in depth for 30 minutes.The firm says it can survive being dropped in a toilet, and if it gets dirty, can simply be washed under a tap.Sony claims that about one in 10 people had dropped their phone down a toilet at some point, something this would protect against.The trade-off is that handset's various ports, including the one for its headphones, all feature protective plastic covers that must be unclipped before they can be accessed.The handset also has an allowing owners to play back video on their TV simply by tapping the phone against it.This chip could also be used as a credit card in the future, it is believed.The Sony Xperia Z, out in the next few weeks, is a mobile phone with a 5in screen. Apart from the Samsung Galaxy Note devices which are part-phone, part tablet, this is the biggest-screen phone yet.Even so, because it’s slim and has the narrowest of bezels round the display, it didn’t feel big. Though it sure didn’t feel small.The phone’s display has the highest resolution yet seen on a mobileknocking the iPhone’s Retinadisplay for six.
SOCIAL SCIENCE STATISTICS BLOGER
This blog makes public the hallway conversations about social science statistical methods and analysis from the and related research groups. Expect to see posts on trends in methodological thought, questions and comments, paper and conference announcements, applied problems needing methodological solutions, and methodological techniques seeking applied problems. Also included arelar weekly research workshop held here and billed as a tour of and applications with weekly stops in different disciplines.I study predictive effects of teachers and schools on test scores in fourth through eighth grade and outcomes later in life such as college attendance and earnings. The predictive effects have the following form: predict the fraction of a classroom attending college at age 20 given the test score for a different classroom in the same school with the same teacher, and given the test score for a classroom in the same school with a different teacher. I would like to have predictive effects that condition on averages over many classrooms, with and without the same teacher. I set up a factor model which, under certain assumptions, makes this feasible. Administrative school district data n combination with tax data were used to calculate estimates and do iSome scientists still think that good data visualization is only necessary when presenting work to "the public." In truth, thinking hard about how to learn the most from any data set should always involve some form of graph, map, chart, or other visual statistical display. This talk will demonstrate how visualization techniques that include so-called "linked views" offer new insights to researchers visualizing large and/or diverse data sets. In particular, the talk will highlight a few high-dimensional visualization examples where ideas about linked views first put forth by John Tukey are extended beyond two-dimensional displays and point clouds. Examples will be principally drawn from astronomy and medical imaging, and software highlighted will include the Universe Information System known as "WorldWide Telescope" and a new python-based linked-view system called "Glue".nference.Nearly every nation in the world is undergoing rapid epidemiologic transition toward noncommunicable chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease obesity, diabetes, and cancers. Numerous organizations including the United Nations, World Health Organization, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other national and international organizations have emphasized the importance of dietary habits as a key risk Yet, the burdens of suboptimal dietary habits not established. Quantification of these burdens has been limited by inadequate or absent data on dietary habits in many nations, not only for each country as a whole, but also for age- and sex-specific strata. As part of our work in the 2013 Global Burden of Diseases Nutrition and Chronic Diseases Group, we systematically identified and obtained data on national and subnational individual-level surveys of dietary consumption worldwide; and used a Bayesian hierarchical model to evaluate and account for differences in comparability, assessment methods, representativeness, and missingness. We also quantified effects of dietary habits ons, including differences by age, in new meta-analyses. We compiled additional data to quantify the alternative optimal distribution of key dietary risk factors, and the numbers of cause-specific deaths by country, age, and sex. Using this compilation of global data, we used comparative risk assessment to quantify the impacts of current dietary habits on in each nation around the world. The case of sugar-sweetened beverage and , adiposity-related cancers, and diabetes will be presented as an example of our newest findings.Nearly every nation in the world is undergoing rapid epidemiologic transition toward noncommunicable chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease obesity, diabetes, and cancers. Numerous organizations including the United Nations, World Health Organizatio Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other national and international organizations have emphasized the importance of dietary habits as a key Yet, the burdens of suboptimal dietary habits on as well as heterogeneity in these burdens by region, country, age, and sex, are not established. Quantification of these burdens has beey inadequate or absent data on dietary habits in many nations, not only for each country as a whole, but also for age- and sex-specific strata. As part of our work in the 2013 Global Burden of Diseases Nutrition and Chronic Diseases Group, we systematically identified aand obtained data on national and subnational individual-level surveysn worldwide; and used a Bayesian hierarchical model to evaluate and account for differences in comparability, assessment methods, representativeness, and missingness. We also quantified effects of dietary habits on, including differences by age, in new meta-analyses. We compiled additional data to quantify the alternative optimal distribution of key dietary risk factors, and the numbers of cause-specific deaths by country, age, and sex. Using this compilation of global data, we used comparative risk assessment to quantify the impacts of current dietary habits on s in each nation around the world.
The case of sugar-sweetened beverages and adiposity-related cancers, and diabetes will be presented as an example of our newest findings.Attrition is the Achilles' Heel of the randomized experiment: it is fairlcommon,and it can unravel the benefits of randomization.This study considers when and why attrition is a problem, and how it can be diagnosed. The extant literature remains ambiguous because it relies on the language of probability, whereas problematic attrition depends on the underlying causal relations. This ambiguity arises because causation implies correlation but not vice versa. Using the structural causal language of directed acyclic graphs I show attrition is a problem when it is an active collider between the treatment and the outcome, or when the latent outcome is a mediator between the treatment and the attrition. Moreover, whether observed outcomes are representative of all outcomes, or only comparable across experimental arms, depends on two d-separation conditions. One of these is directly testable from the dataObservers of approval regulation regimes such as FDA drug review have long proposed that they cause private companies to avoid developing new products that would otherwise have been marketed. The welfare conclusions and policy recommendations vary, but the causal claim is common. Yet most such claims suffer from the problem of endogeneity and non-random assignment, such that the necessary counterfactual cannot be sustained. If a regulatory decision occurs and drug projects are discontinued or delayed, the analyst cannot usually infer whether it was a change in regulation or something else that caused the project abandonment. Using a rich dataset on the development of over 15,000 pharmaceutical investment projects from we examine responses in development projects to "bad news" regulatory announcements weighted by the asset price shocks in a general equilibrium financial market. Using a Lévy process model of asset price evolution, we demonstrate that the abrupt changes in sponsor asset prices upon the announcement of adverse regulatory news are plausibly non-anticipable for all participants but the regulator. Specifically, for the development projects of companies other than the sponsor affected, they are quasi-random, conditional on all information knownent. This assumption is supported by analysis of data, and then used to identify a model of regulatory effects upon drug development. The results suggest robust effects of induced project abandonment by regulatory decisions; a ten percent to induce a three to four percent increase in the hazard rate of drug project discontinuation for all other firms' projects in the months following the news.
While some immediate responses to adverse regulatory news are witnessed, most response takes place in a six month period following the event. Effects are larger for bad news from advisory committee decisions and requests for additional data, and are for surprise other-company abandonments where factors are implicit. The results are generally supportive of dominant theoretical models of endogenous approval regulation but policy implications are unclear and depend upon the potential health and welfare effects of the therapies foregone.For decades, market researchers have used conjoint analysis to understand how consumers make decisions when faced with multi-dimensional choices. In such analyses, respondents are asked to score or rank a set of alternatives, where each alternative is defined by multiple attributes which are varied randomly or intentionally. Political scientists are frequently interested in parallel questions about decision-making, yet to date conjoint analysis has seen little use within the field. In this manuscript, we demonstrate the potential value of conjoint analysis in political science, using examples about vote choice and immigrant admission to the United States. In doing so, we develop a set of statistical tools for drawing causal conclusions from stated preference data based on the potential outcomes framework of causal inference. We discuss the causal estimands of interest and provide a formal analysis of the assumptions required for identifying those quantities. Prior conjoint analyses have typically used designs which limit the number of unique conjoint profiles. We employ a survey experiment to compare this approach to a fully randomized approach. Both our formal analysis of the causal estimands and our empirical results highlight the potential biases of common approaches to conjoint analysis which restrict the number of profiles.In studies of public health, outcome measures such as the odds ratio, rate ratio, or efficacy are often estimated across strata to assess the overall effect of active treatment versus control treatment. Patients may be partitioned into such strata or blocks by experimental design, or, in non-randomized studies, patients may be partitioned into subclasses based on key covariates or estimated propensity scores to improve observed covariate balance across treatment groups. In finite samples, there exist tests and intervals for these estimands that can be more powerful than tests and intervals created with Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel or analogous procedures . The proposed methods multiply impute missing potential outcomes within the Rubin Causal Model so that estimands can be directly estimated. The assumptions underlying these typically more powerful methods are appropriate in many circumstances, especially when the strata are based on covariates highly predictive of treatment decisions and outcomes. When used to draw inferences about a population from which the patients in the study are considered a random sample, and the sample is large, these methods are extremely similar to the classical methods. The proposed approach is particularly relevant when assessing the safety of a new treatment relative to a standard one because, under typical conditions, the tests are more powerful and the intervals are shorter, thereby detecting smaller differences.
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SOCIAL STUDIES AND HISTORY Bloger
One of the most well known images from the era was taken by Thompson.This adorable avideo running for president againsThe two candidates sing their campaign promises, which provides much fodder for class discussions on elections.There is even a scene showing thin Congress disagreeing about each issue raised.The only cautionary moment is at about the 3 minute mark when the Republican elephant calls the Depending on the maturity of your class this may not be appropriate, unless it discussed beforehand to place it in context.For more resources on teaching check out ourThe Great Depression and was an amazing woman who lived an extraordinary life.He creat sociallThere is a bit of controversy, however, as two versions have been recorded, one during the convention, a second a few years later.The second version is the widely known speech. It is notable though that the second version is in a southern-style dialect which is not how the native New Yorker who only Dutch for her early years talked.We have included both and encourage adding questions to theassignment we have included for your classroom use.t.Every teacher strives to find new ways to pique and keep students’ interest throughout the school year.We believe that comic books can be one of many resources in this quest.In this case we are highlighting a few Esquire Comics from the Cold .War era.The imagery can be quite graphic at times, so prescreening is always essential before passing something out.We have included an assignment that is classroom ready to be used during a Cold War unit.For more Cold War resources check out our:land’s passage of the nation’s first “Benefit Corporation” bill signed into law today, we have collaborated with our contributor Ifeoma Ajunwa to address an area ripe for socially-minded entrepreneurs, eliminating food deserts and promoting the right to food here in the United States.Access to healthful food is a human rights issue. Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is adopted by the United Nations affirmed that: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food.” “Food deserts are community areas with little or no access to affordable, quality, and nutritious food. These communities, found in such cities as Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis, and Newark, and most of which are largely populated by blacks and Latinos, suffer from a dearth of supermarkets, and can only rely on fast-food chains and corner stores that sell mostly liquor and some produce at exorbitant prices. About million people, of whom about million are children, inhabit low-income urban and rural spaces where the nearest supermarket is more than a mile away keeping in mind that many low-income families can not afford a car. For an extreme example s population live in communities that lack nearby supermarkets Michelle Obama penned a cover story for Newsweek magazine in which she detailed her fight against the growing rates of obesity in school age American children. Obesity brings with it a host of health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Further, high obesity rates negatively impact the economy as millions of tax-payer dollars are spent each year in treating the chronic diseases that stem from it. Since, as the First Lady noted, a third of American children are either overweight or obese, the fight against obesity is a matter of national concernIn an effort to combat this problem, the First Lady has launched “Let’s Move” a program that employs several different tactics to help children and their parents towards the goal of a healthy weight. The strategies include: offering parents the tools to make better food choices for their children; a push towards more healthful food options at schools via the Healthier Schools Challenge Program and the updating of the Child Nutrition Act;
Thursday, 21 March 2013
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Ther's biger work to be done. You can find a live blog of my presentation here. The audio is posted and plays on contact. The Guardian’s summary is here. Photo by Rebecca Ambrose.There’s an old rule among sportswriters: no cheering in the press box. In fact, a few weeks ago a young journalist lost his gig with Sports Illustrated for just that reason: cheering at the conclusion of a thrilling race. writers could allow themselves to cheer without it affecting their work, but they don’t. And this rule gets handed down from older to younger members of the group.So this is a little example of the psychology, not of individual journalists, but of the profession itself. We don’t often talk this way, but we could: “No cheering in the press box” is the superego at work. It’s a psychological thing within the sportswriter’s tribe. You learn to wear the mask if you want to join the club.Six years ago I wrote an essay called Bloggers vs. Journalis. It was my most well read piece at the time. And it made the points you would expect: This distinction is eroding.Who can creat a new partestion itself more youger profestions p This war is absurd. Get over it. Move on. There’s bigger work to be done.But since noticed that while the division bloggers as one type, journalists as another makes less and less sense, the conflict continues to surface. Why? Well, something must be happening under the surface that expresses itself through bloggers vs. journalists. But what is that subterranean thing? This is my real subject today.And to preview my answer: disruptions caused by the Internet threaten to expose certain buried conflicts at the heart of modern journalism and a commercialized press. Raging at bloggers is a way to keep these demons at bay. It exports inner conflicts to figures outside In tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine, which went online Thursday, Bill Keller acts out a version of bloggers vs. journalists.
He ridicules aggregators like the Huffington Post and pokes at media bloggers for producing derivative work that is parasitic on news producers.The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.. When it reviews a book or play that’s a derivative work. We could charge Keller with petty hypocrisy, but that’s not my point. This is my point: There’s something about bloggers vs. journalists that permits the display of a preferred (or idealized) self among people in the press whose work lives have been disrupted by the Internet. There’s an attraction there. Spitting at bloggers is closely related to gazing at your own reflection, What I like about this one is that question,” You can hear the tone of puzzlement, the plea for reason. The old school news provider struggles to understand why anyone would choose those new goods, like live blogging, that the Internet makes possible.So far, I have been discusing what professional journalists by hanging on to bloggers vs. journalists. But bloggers get something, too. I do not want to neglect that. Listen to the teet, a female blogger.I think I have an unnatural with and hatred for the editor of the Dispatch.Everything he says makes me want the throw my computer monitor out the window. Regardless, I’ve left him on my Google Reader. I always flip to the front of the Insight section on Sundays. I secretly love the pain he causes me.By raging at newspaper editors, bloggers manage to keep themselves on the are in fact a part. It’s one Internet, folks. The news system now incorporates the people formerly known as the audience are hugely powerful as distributors of news.I’ve said that bloggers and journalists are each other’s ideal From the blogger’s side, the conflict with journalists helps preserve a ragged innocence, which is itself a kind of power, by falsely locating all the power in Big Media. Here’s another blogger in Columbus, talking.Our patients have been telling themselves a story about who they are and where they fit in the world. And for reasons we do not understand very well, their story has broken down. It no longer lets them live in the real world, so they wind up here. A telling themselves a better story. Or they won’t get out of here. If you can do that way you can do that you are doing psychiatry. Coles got it. And this was the beginning conected for this limit basics inculding know meaning.ther are autience hugely powerful bloger maker new hanging word.Being a journalist, I have no special feelings toward “bloggers”. And I think that for every one of your examples of irate publishers I know a dozen collegues that, like me, use new digital sources as we do any source: if it turns out to be reliable we stick with it, if not we don’t. Being upset with the form of publishing is irrational, and not something my workload allows for.
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Ther's biger work to be done. You can find a live blog of my presentation here. There’s an old rule among sportswriters: no cheering in the press box. In fact, a few weeks ago a young journalist lost his gig with Sports Illustrated for just that reason: cheering at the conclusion of a thrilling race. writers could allow themselves to cheer without it affecting their work, but they don’t. And this rule gets handed down from older to younger members of the group.So this is a little example of the psychology, not of individual journalists, but of the profession itself. We don’t often talk this way, but we could: “No cheering in the press box” is the superego at work. It’s a psychological thing within the sportswriter’s tribe. You learn to wear the mask if you want to join the club.Six years ago I wrote an essay called Bloggers vs. Journalis. It was my most well read piece at the time. And it made the points you would expect: This distinction is eroding.Who can creat a new partestion itself more youger profestions psycolagy. This war is absurd. Get over it. Move on. There’s bigger work to be done.But since noticed that while the division bloggers as one type, journalists as another makes less and less sense, the conflict continues to surface. Why? Well, something must be happening under the surface that expresses itself through bloggers vs. journalists. But what is that subterranean thing? This is my real subject today.And to preview my answer: disruptions caused by the Internet threaten to expose certain buried conflicts at the heart of modern journalism and a commercialized press. Raging at bloggers is a way to keep these demons at bay. It exports inner conflicts to figures outside In tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine, which went online Thursday, Bill Keller acts out a version of bloggers vs. journalists. who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.. When it reviews a book or play that’s a derivative work. We could charge Keller with petty hypocrisy, but that’s not my point. This is my point: There’s something about bloggers vs. journalists that permits the display of a preferred (or idealized) self among people in the press whose work lives have been disrupted by the Internet. There’s an attraction there. Spitting at bloggers is closely related to gazing at your own reflection, What I like about this one is that question,” You can hear the tone of puzzlement, the plea for reason. The old school news provider struggles to understand why anyone would choose those new goods, like live blogging, that the Internet makes possible.So far, I have been discusing what professional journalists by hanging on to bloggers vs. journalists. But bloggers get something, too. I do not want to neglect that. Listen to the teet, a female blogger.I think I have an unnatural with and hatred for the editor of the Dispatch.Everything he says makes me want the throw my computer monitor out the window. Regardless, I’ve left him on my Google Reader.
always flip to the front of the Insight section on Sundays. I secretly love the pain he causes me.By raging at newspaper editors, bloggers manage to keep themselves on the are in fact a part. It’s one Internet, folks. The news system now incorporates the people formerly known as the audience are hugely powerful as distributors of news.I’ve said that bloggers and journalists are each other’s ideal From the blogger’s side, the conflict with journalists helps preserve a ragged innocence, which is itself a kind of power, by falsely locating all the power in Big Media. Here’s another blogger in Columbus, talking.Our patients have been telling themselves a story about who they are and where they fit in the world. And for reasons we do not understand very well, their story has broken down. I have some patents g It no longer lets them live in the real world, so they wind up here. A telling themselves a better story. Or they won’t get out of here. If you can do that way you can do that you are doing psychiatry. Coles got it. And this was the beginning conected for this limit basics inculding know meaning.ther are autience hugely powerful bloger maker new hanging word.Being a journalist, I have no special feelings toward “bloggers”. And I think that for every one of your examples of irate publishers I know a dozen collegues that, like me, use new digital sources as we do any source: if it turns out to be reliable we stick with it, if not we don’t. Being upset with the form of publishing is irrational, and not something my workload allows for.
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