News tagged with unobserved variables


Monetary aggregates play little role in the conduct of monetary policy

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In conventional macroeconomic thinking, the money supply is considered the main determinant of long-run inflation. A variety of monetary aggregates have been proposed to measure the money supply. Yet, nowadays, monetary aggregates ...





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No crystal ball necessary: New tool IDs predictable economic variables

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy. You need a statistical model. A new method from North Carolina State University can help researchers determine which economic variables ...


Kinetic variable most useful for identifying malignant MRI-detected breast lesions identified

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast MRI allows physicians to evaluate suspicious lesions using a variety of variables. Researchers have found though that computer-aided kinetic information can help significantly in distinguishing benign from malignant ...


Redefining obesity's health risks: Scientists make the case for new body fat assessment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The body mass index (BMI) has long been the yardstick in deciding who is at risk because of their weight. BMI is essentially a measure of density, identifying 'under-' and 'over-weight' risk groups. Recent studies however ...


'Nature' and 'nurture' variables early predictors of AMD

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like many diseases, causes for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can be categorized as either "nature" or "nurture". Researchers think these factors, when used in the proper model, can be strong predictors of the disease.


Researcher Investigates the Basis of Einstein's First Approximation in the Theory of Relativity

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 41

(PhysOrg.com) -- In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of The Meaning of Relativity, Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. Einstein apparently never ...


Chemotherapy for breast cancer is associated with disruption of sleep-wake rhythm in women

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A study in the Sept.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that the sleep-wake activity rhythms of breast cancer patients are impaired during the administration of chemotherapy. Results indicate that the first cycle of chemot ...


New American College of Surgeons risk calculator determines colorectal surgery risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that a risk calculator developed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) can help surgeons provide patients with more detail ...


Childhood risk factors for developing substance dependence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There is ample evidence for the genetic influence of alcohol dependence, and ongoing studies are actively looking for specific genes that may confer this increased susceptibility. In addition, while it is well-known that ...


Social scientist suggests new research framework to study complex systems

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The often-used one-size-fits-all approach to policies aimed at achieving sustainable social-ecological systems needs to be updated with a diagnostic tool to help scholars from multiple disciplines better frame the question ...


Physics education improves when students make their own computer models

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modelling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with this trend and also with new learning ...



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