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1953-, Albert Jim, ed. Ordinal data modeling. New York: Springer, 1999.

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Moshe, Kress, ed. Ordinal information and preference structures: Decision models and applications. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1992.

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National Bureau of Standards. Representation for calendar date and ordinal date for information interchange. Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Dept. of Commerce/National Bureau of Standards, 1988.

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service), SpringerLink (Online, ed. Permutation Complexity in Dynamical Systems: Ordinal Patterns, Permutation Entropy and All That. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.

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Wisdom, information, and wonder: What is knowlege for? New York, NY: Routledge, 1991.

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Midgley, Mary. Wisdom, information, and wonder: What is knowledge for? London: Routledge, 1989.

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Ronald, Ferns, ed. The learnèd hippopotamus: Poems conveying useful information about animals ordinary and extraordinary. London: Hutchinson, 1986.

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Ewart, Gavin. The learnèd hippopotamus: Poems conveying useful information about animals, ordinary and extraordinary. London: Hutchinson, 1986.

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McGuiggan, Alexander. An analysis of a proposed college based information system specifically focussing on the information needs of the ordinary lecturer. [s.l: The author], 1991.

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Kogan, Efim. Ordinary differential equations and calculus of variations. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1058922.

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The textbook contains theoretical information in a volume of the lecture course are discussed in detail and examples of typical tasks and test tasks and tasks for independent work. Designed for students enrolled in directions of preparation 15.03.03 "Applied mechanics" 01.03.02 "mathematics" (specialization "Mathematical modeling"), major 23.05.01 "Land transport and technological means" (specialization "Dynamics and strength of transport and technological systems"). Can be used by teachers for conducting practical classes.

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Good Practices in Mental Health (Organisation), ed. Housing information pack: Ordinary housing for people with major long-term psychiatric disabilities. London: Good Practices in Mental Health, 1985.

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Jacobson, Trudi. State-of-the-art fact finding: New ways to find the information you need, now : the most innovative, comprehensive guide to high tech, out-of-the-ordinary, and tried-and-true sources for-- business, real estate, education, medicine, consumer products, law, science research papers and theses-- and more. New York, N.Y: Dell Pub., 1993.

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Mikov, Aleksandr. Generalized graphs and grammars. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1013698.

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The textbook deals with ordinary graphs and their generalizations-hypergraphs, hierarchical structures, geometric graphs, random and dynamic graphs. Graph grammars are considered in detail. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For master's students studying in the areas of the 02.00.00 group "Computer and Information Sciences", and can also be used in senior bachelor's courses and other areas in the field of computer science and computer engineering.

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Ordinary and extraordinary fruits & vegetables: Nutritional information, selected recipes and tidbits from the T.V. series "A minute in the kitchen with Mary". Haverstraw, NY (Rte 9W, Haverstraw 10927): South Mountain Press, 1989.

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Manichev, Vladimir, Valentina Glazkova, and Кузьмина Анастасия. Numerical methods. The authentic and exact solution of the differential and algebraic equations in SAE systems of SAPR. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/13138.

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In the manual classical numerical methods are considered and algorithms for the decision of systems of the ordinary differential equations (ODE), nonlinear and linear algebraic equations (NAU and LAU), and also ways of ensuring reliability and demanded accuracy of results of the decision. Ideas, which still not are stated are reflected in textbooks on calculus mathematics, namely: decision systems the ODE without reduction to a normal form of Cauchy resolved rather derivative, and refusal from any numerical an equivalent - nykh of transformations of the initial equations of mathematical models and is- the hodnykh of data because such transformations can change properties of models at a variation of coefficients in corresponding urav- neniyakh. It is intended for students, graduate students and teachers of higher education institutions in the direction of preparation "Informatics and computer facilities". The grant will also be useful for engineers and scientists on the corresponding specialties.

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Johnson, Valen E., and James H. Albert. Ordinal Data Modeling. Springer London, Limited, 2006.

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Johnson, Valen E., and James H. Albert. Ordinal Data Modeling. Springer New York, 2013.

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Brazier, John, Julie Ratcliffe, Joshua A. Salomon, and Aki Tsuchiya. Using ordinal response data to estimate cardinal values for health states. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725923.003.0006.

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There exists a strong methodological foundation for estimating cardinal values from ordinal information, originating in psychology but commonly applied in areas as diverse as consumer marketing, political science, transportation research, and environmental economics. Over recent years there has been a steady rise in the use of these approaches to estimate health state values. Potential advantages claimed for ordinal data collection approaches include relative ease of comprehension and administration, and greater reliability corresponding to reduced measurement error. Another advantage of some types of ordinal data collection methods is that the preferences or judgements they elicit are not contaminated by risk aversion (as in the standard gamble), or by time preference (as in the time trade-off).

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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Introduction to Part II. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717195.003.0008.

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This chapter serves as an introduction to Part Two. Two fundamentally different kinds of signs are introduced: “informational signs” or “infosigns” and “intentional signs” or “intensigns.” Natural signs are one example of infosigns. Information carried by infosigns is “natural-content information” or just “natural information.” Many signs are both informational and intentional. Central examples are “Normally true sentences,” that is, true sentences that express knowledge. Because Normally true intentional signs are also infosigns, it is possible to understand them in the same way that one understands ordinary infosigns, as one understands, for example, natural signs. In particular, it is possible to understand them without recognizing the speaker’s intention in speaking. The challenge, then, will be to the Gricean program of semantica and pragmatics.

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Project Specification (The Family of Publications to Co-ordinate Project Information). RICS Books, 1987.

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Production Drawings (The Family of Publications to Co-ordinate Project Information). RICS Books, 1987.

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Midgley, Mary. Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For? Routledge, 1991.

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MacAskill, William, Krister Bykvist, and Toby Ord. Moral Uncertainty. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722274.001.0001.

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Very often, we’re uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We don’t know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, or how strong our duties are to improve the lives of distant strangers, or how to think about the ethics of bringing new people into existence. But we still need to act. So how should we make decisions in the face of such uncertainty? Though economists and philosophers have extensively studied the issue of decision-making in the face of uncertainty about matters of fact, the question of decision-making given fundamental moral uncertainty has been neglected. In this book, philosophers William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord try to fill this gap. They argue that there are distinctive norms that govern how one ought to make decisions given moral uncertainty. They then defend an information-sensitive account of how to make such decisions according to which the correct way to act in the face of moral uncertainty depends on whether the moral theories in which one has credence are merely ordinal, cardinal, or both cardinal and intertheoretically comparable. They tackle the problem of how to make intertheoretic comparisons, discussing several novel potential solutions. Finally, they discuss implications of their view for metaethics and practical ethics, and show how their account can shed light on the value of moral enquiry.

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Cohen, Jonathan. Synesthetic Perception as Continuous with Ordinary Perception, or. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199688289.003.0004.

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It appears that the distinctive feature at the core of our understanding of synesthesia—informational integration between psychological systems—is also ubiquitous in normal perception. This observation invites the question whether synesthesia is a fundamentally distinct, pathological outlier, or a syndrome continuous with capacities present in normal perception. In this chapter I offer several arguments for the continuity view. I suggest that the forms of integration in synesthetic and normal perception exhibit striking, detailed, and unexpected similarities, while the evidence some have taken to reveal significant, qualitative dissimilarities is less decisive than it may first appear. Moreover, the continuity view correctly predicts the otherwise surprising result that synesthetes perform better than non-synesthete controls in integrative perceptual tasks that don’t implicate synesthetic perception. I’ll conclude that synesthetic perception is usefully viewed as closer to non-synesthetic perception (a fortiori, less clearly pathological) than standard views allow.

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T. Edward Gardiner B. Com. MBA. It Pays to Read the Boring Stuff: What the Ordinary Investor Needs to Know About Corporate Financial Information. Trafford Publishing, 2006.

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Kahan, Dan M. On the Sources of Ordinary Science Knowledge and Extraordinary Science Ignorance. Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.013.4.

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In order to live well—or just to live, period—individuals must make use of much more scientific information than any can comprehend or verify. They achieve this feat not by acquiring expertise in the myriad forms of science essential to their well-being but rather by becoming experts at recognizing what science knows. Cases of persistent controversy over decision-relevance science do not stem from defects in public science comprehension; they are not a result of the failure of scientists to clearly communicate; nor are they convincingly attributable to orchestrated deception, as treacherous as such behavior genuinely is. Rather, such disputes are a consequence of disruptions to the system of conventions that normally enable individuals to recognize valid science despite their inability to understand it. Generating the knowledge needed to pre-empt such disruptions and repair them when they occur is the primary aim of the science of science communication.

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Communities, European. A European Network to Co-ordinate Information Exchange Between the National Biomass Energy Programmes on Agricultural and Forestry Biomass. European Communities / Union (EUR-OP/OOPEC/OPOCE), 1998.

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Steane, Andrew. The Tree. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824589.003.0009.

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The life of an ordinary tree is described, in terms of the main physical and chemical processes: carbon capture by photosynthesis; entropy and energy; moisture. The information expressed in the tree comes partly from the DNA and partly from the sunlight. The tree does not push upwards from the ground, but solidifies the air.

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Stokke, Andreas. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825968.003.0011.

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we know to tell many lies that sound like truth,but we know to sing reality, when we will.Hesiod, Theogony 27–28 (trans. M. L. West)Human cooperation and development are underwritten by a practice of information sharing. Given our limited lifespan and point of view, we are dependent on information acquired from others. Our limitations concern both the world and the minds of others. No one can investigate every corner of the universe, or even of their own neighborhood, and we cannot always tell what someone is thinking just by looking at their face. We depend on others to share information with us both about the world and their thoughts. By far, most of the information we acquire from others we acquire from testimony. Language is our best tool for sharing information. This system of using language to overcome our cognitive limitations relies fundamentally on sincerity. In the most ordinary case ...

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Roach, Lee. 1. Business structures. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198759133.003.0001.

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EachConcentraterevision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more.Concentratesshow you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter discusses the four principal business structures in the UK: sole proprietorship, ordinary partnership, limited liability partnership (LLP), and company. The LLP and the company are created via a process called incorporation and are therefore known as incorporated business structures or, as they are referred to in their respective statutes, as ‘bodies corporate’. The sole proprietorship and the ordinary partnership are not created via incorporation and so are known as unincorporated business structures.

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Patel, Aniruddh D. Music and the brain. Edited by Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, and Michael Thaut. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298457.013.0019.

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This article presents the evidence for links between music and language. The focus is on perceptual processes, and on links between mechanisms involved in the processing of instrumental music and of ordinary, day-to- day language. Music and language may have a number of common processes that act on distinct types of information, e.g. on musical melodies vs. linguistic intonation contours, or on chord progressions vs. sequences of words. Thus, the distinction between the domain specificity of information vs. the generality of processing is an essential conceptual tool for research that examines the relationship between music and other cognitive domains.

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Roach, Lee. 1. Business structures. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198815143.003.0001.

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Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter discusses the four principal business structures in the UK, namely the sole proprietorship, ordinary partnership, limited liability partnership (LLP), and company. The LLP and the company are created via a process called incorporation and are therefore known as incorporated business structures or, as they are referred to in their respective statutes, as ‘bodies corporate’. The sole proprietorship and the ordinary partnership are not created via incorporation and so are known as unincorporated business structures.

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Fleming, Roland W., and Daniel Holtmann-Rice. “Shape From Smear”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794607.003.0017.

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Of the many mysteries of sensory perception, one of the greatest is surely our ability to see in three dimensions. While the world is 3D, the retinal images are 2D: So how does the brain work out the extra dimension? Under ordinary conditions, viewing the world with two eyes provides rich sources of information for inferring depths. However, we are also very good at working out 3D shape even from single, static photographs of objects. This chapter presents a novel illusion in which 2D patterns appear vividly 3D, revealing specific image information that the brain uses for inferring 3D shape, based on the way texture appears distorted in the image.

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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Linguistic Signs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717195.003.0013.

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The semantic meaning of a linguistic form is its intentional content. Parts of sentence meaning that have traditionally been thought to be determined by speaker intentions—the resolution of ambiguity and vagueness, the reference of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives, and anaphors—are actually settled by public semantics. True descriptive language carries natural information that matches semantic content, so it can be understood by an interpreter in the same way that ordinary non-intentional infosigns are understood; no recognition of speaker intentions is required. But true descriptive language also carries much additional information the understanding of which is supplied by speakers and hearers from their own prior knowledge.

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Meyers, Carol. Seeing Double. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0029.

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The study of women in several disciplines reveals a disconnect between the images in normative texts and the information garnered from other sources. The social reality of women’s lives is thus best reconstructed using diverse sources. Archaeology is the main alternative source for studying Israelite women, and social science disciplines are involved in the interpretation of the archaeological data. Together, they provide a glimpse of the daily lives of ordinary women. Examining several aspects of everyday life—family size, household labour, and household religious activities—shows a more balanced situation of gendered power in households than is implied by many biblical texts.

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Jeffares, Ben, and Kim Sterelny. Evolutionary Psychology. Edited by Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels, and Stephen P. Stich. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195309799.013.0020.

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The article presents several models of evolutionary psychology. Nativist evolutionary psychology is built around a most important insight that ordinary human decision-making has a high cognitive load. Evolutionary nativists defend a modular solution to the problem of information load on human decision-making. Human minds comprises of special purpose cognitive devices or modules. One of the modules is a language module, a module for interpreting the thoughts and intentions of others, another is a ‘naive physics’ module for causal reasoning about sticks, stones, and similar inanimate objects, a natural history module for ecological decisions, and a social exchange module for monitoring economic interactions with peers. These modules evolved in response to the distinctive, independent, and recurring problems faced by the ancestors. Domain specific modules handle information about human language, human minds, inanimate causal interactions, the biological world, and other constant adaptive demands faced by human ancestors. Nativist evolutionary psychologists have turned to moral decision making, arguing that cross-cultural moral judgments are invariant in an unexpected way. Natural selection can build and equip a special purpose module only if the information an agent needs to know is stable over evolutionary time. Automatized skills are an alternative means of coping with high-load problems. These skills are phenomenologically rather like modules, but they have very different developmental and evolutionary histories.

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Liddy, Christian D. Communication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198705208.003.0005.

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The exercise of political power in late medieval English towns was predicated upon the representation, management, and control of public opinion. This chapter explains why public opinion mattered so much to town rulers; how they worked to shape opinion through communication; and the results. Official communication was instrumental in the politicization of urban citizens. The practices of official secrecy and public proclamation were not inherently contradictory, but conflict flowed from the political process. The secrecy surrounding the practices of civic government provoked ordinary citizens to demand more accountability from town rulers, while citizens, who were accustomed to hear news and information circulated by civic magistrates, were able to use what they knew to challenge authority.

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Minto, Gary, and J. Robert Sneyd. Research in anaesthesia. Edited by Philip M. Hopkins. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0038.

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Clinicians need critical appraisal skills to weigh up the quality of the literature and to decide whether it has implications for their practice. Every belief in medicine is a construct created from the limited information available and carries a degree of uncertainty. A centralized approach to research identifies the highest priority areas of uncertainty so as to bring about the most improvement for the largest number of patients. This patient-centred model classifies studies into basic science, translational, and clinical research. Adequately powered mega-trials are required to bridge the translational gap between efficacy (does a treatment work?) and effectiveness (does a treatment work when applied in ordinary clinical practice?). There is a paucity of these in perioperative medicine.

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Schiller, Dan. A Struggle for Growth. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038761.003.0010.

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This chapter examines how efforts to corral network systems and services for the purpose of increased profitability introduced a new chapter in the geopolitics of information—one marked by intensifying struggles over control of the extraterritorial internet and of the industries that continued to pyramid around it. More specifically, it describes the emergence of extraterritorial internet connectivity as a site of sustained political contestation. It also explains how internet connectivity had been woven into the global political economy, enabling new commodities, altering state policy, and revamping the ways in which ordinary people worked, played, and communicated. It also considers rival efforts to shape the destiny of the overall political economy and U.S. capital's influence over both domestic and many transnational markets through preemptive appropriations of internet connectivity and an assertively helpful state.

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Hidden mines, and how to find them: Contains the information called for by the ordinary business man, who is interested for business reasons only, in mines, metals and ores. Toronto: M. Rogers, Pub. Co., 1993.

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Olsen, Jan Abel. What makes the market for healthcare different? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794837.003.0003.

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The market for healthcare is different from ‘ordinary markets’ for two quite different reasons: first, there are inherent failures in the market for healthcare which create inefficiencies if left unregulated. Second, a large number of countries have a policy objective of equity in access to needed health services, in line with the World Health Organization’s ambition of universal health coverage. This chapter investigates the efficiency reasons for public regulations, explaining what makes healthcare different. The assumptions behind the perfect market model are compared with the real-world imperfect market for healthcare. Asymmetric information between the provider and the consumer calls for protection of healthcare users, through quality control and ethical codes of conduct. The chapter explains the agency relationship between doctors and patients. Another important market failure is that of externalities in healthcare consumption, which calls for various types of regulations.

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May, Joshua. The Limits of Emotion in Moral Judgment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797074.003.0014.

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This chapter argues that our best science supports the rationalist idea that, independent of reasoning, emotions are not integral to moral judgment. There is ample evidence that ordinary moral cognition often involves conscious and unconscious reasoning about an action’s outcomes and the agent’s role in bringing them about. Emotions can aid in moral reasoning by, for example, drawing one’s attention to such information. However, there is no compelling evidence for the decidedly sentimentalist claim that mere feelings are causally necessary or sufficient for making a moral judgment or for treating norms as distinctively moral. The chapter concludes that, even if moral cognition is largely driven by automatic intuitions, these should not be mistaken for emotions or their non-cognitive components. Non-cognitive elements in our psychology may be required for normal moral development and motivation but not necessarily for mature moral judgment.

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Halperin, Sandra, and Oliver Heath. 11. Surveys. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198702740.003.0011.

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This chapter discusses the principles of survey research as well as the issues and problems associated with different stages of the research design process. In particular, it examines questionnaire design, sample design, and interviewing techniques, along with the common sources of error that affect survey research and what can be done to try and avoid or minimize them. Although surveys have several weaknesses, they are widely used in political research to investigate a wide range of political phenomena. They combine two things: obtaining information from people by asking questions and random sampling. When done well, surveys provide an accurate and reliable insight into what ordinary people think about politics and how they participate in politics. The chapter considers the elements of a survey that need to be addressed, namely: questionnaire design, measurement error, sampling design, sampling error, and interview mode.

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Lahey, Benjamin B. Dimensions of Psychological Problems. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197607909.001.0001.

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A long-brewing revolution in how people think about psychological problems has finally reached a tipping point. Extensive scientific evidence now portrays psychological problems as problematic ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that lie on continuous dimensions from insignificant to severe, with there being no hard line between “normal” and “abnormal.” These dimensions of psychological problems are highly correlated and overlapping. This means that people often experience psychological problems on more than one dimension at the same time. New longitudinal studies, in which the same people provide information about themselves over long parts of their lives, now indicate that the dimensions of psychological problems are dynamically changing rather than constant. Perhaps most important, these long-term studies reveal that psychological problems are commonplace and ordinary aspects of human lives. Surprisingly, nearly all people experience some distressing and impairing psychological problems at some time during their lives. These psychological problems range from simply uncomfortable to extremely distressing, problematic, and sometimes tragic. Nonetheless, psychological problems arise through the same natural processes as all aspects of behavior. That is, both adaptive and maladaptive patterns of psychological functioning are the result of the same natural interplay of genes and environments. Understanding these things about psychological problems should reduce people’s tendency to stigmatize these problems in themselves and in others. It will often be sensible for people to seek professional help to change them, but psychological problems are simply ordinary and commonplace parts of people’s lives.

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Molloy, Sean. Emergency Law Responses to Covid-19 and the Impact on Peace and Transition Processes. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.24.

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The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020. This global health crisis demanded a quick, decisive and efficient response by governments to protect lives, curb the spread of the virus and prevent public health systems from being overwhelmed. This report explores the way governments undergoing transitions to peace and democracy have triggered emergency legal frameworks to disable some ordinary (democratic) procedures and set aside standard political and legal accountability mechanisms as part of their Covid-19 response. It also provides information about where elections have been postponed or cancelled, and central governments have assumed enhanced responsibilities, which have often included powers otherwise designated to local or regional governments. While the impacts of both the pandemic and the responses to the contagion have been felt globally, they often have quite different consequences in countries attempting peace and democratic transition processes.

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Clemit, Pamela. Letters and Journals. Edited by David Duff. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660896.013.27.

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Romanticism was not just about the high points of insight and emotion: people lived ordinary lives, nourished by bonds of reciprocity. If people were separated by distance, reciprocity was sustained by letters. Letters were not only a vehicle for exchange of information and opinions: they played an important role in upholding and reaffirming a set of relations. They brought people together, strengthened family relationships, and helped to build social networks. The generic boundaries between letters and journals were fluid: the impetus for journal writing was often reciprocal exchange or collaboration. Letters and journals were compositions, in which writers constructed narratives of their lives. They were not the background to creative work, but creative work in themselves. Many different interests contributed to the preservation of Romantic-period letters and journals. The story of the survival of these personal documents is also a story of the transmission of value.

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Modern Wiring Diagrams and Descriptions: A Handbook of Practical Diagrams and Information for Electrical Construction Work, Showing at a Glance All That Ordinary Electrical Workers Need and Nothing That They Do Not Need. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Modern Wiring Diagrams and Descriptions: A Handbook of Practical Diagrams and Information for Electrical Construction Work, Showing at a Glance All That Ordinary Electrical Workers Need and Nothing That They Do Not Need. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Modern Wiring Diagrams and Descriptions: A Handbook of Practical Diagrams and Information for Electrical Construction Work, Showing at a Glance All That Ordinary Electrical Workers Need and Nothing That They Do Not Need. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Barcia, Manuel. The Yellow Demon of Fever. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300215854.001.0001.

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The Yellow Demon of Fever unravels the story of the uninterrupted Atlantic struggle between humans and often terrifying and puzzling diseases, a struggle that generated a vast amount of information at a time when transatlantic means of communication were significantly enhanced. It seeks to demonstrate that while the enforcement of abolitionist policies in the Atlantic contributed to the eventual ending of the transatlantic slave trade, it also led to an increase in the suffering of those who were enslaved and sent into the transatlantic slave trade. The book also argues that slave traders’ worries about the health of their human cargoes, as well as anti–slave trade patrol officers’ concerns about the health of their prizes—both related to the maximization of profits—generated transatlantic discussions and dialogues about the diseases they encountered and the best ways to fight them. The Yellow Demon of Fever exhaustively examines the personal experiences of ordinary Atlantic people who were daily exposed to deadly and debilitating diseases and illnesses, and who were forced to resist and fight them as best they could, often sharing old and new knowledge on the characteristics of these deadly enemies and on how to confront them. Ultimately, it argues that the ways in which these historical actors dealt with and fought against a bewildering array of diseases were central elements in the transformations of medical cultures that took place in the illegal period throughout the Atlantic world.

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