Disappointing Research Articles

Deeply disappointed at vote to accept revised pay offer

Deeply disappointed at vote to accept revised pay offer

THE EQUITY PREMIUM PUZZLE AND EMOTIONAL ASSET PRICING

Since the equity premium as well as the risk-free rate puzzle question the concepts central to financial and economic modeling, we apply behavioral decision theory to asset pricing in view of solving these puzzles. US stock market data for the period 1960–2003 and German stock market data for the period 1977–2003 show that emotional investors who act in accordance to Bell's [6] disappointment theory — a special case of prospect theory — and additionally administer mental accounts demand a high equity premium. Furthermore, these investors reason a low risk-free rate. However, Barberis et al. [5] already showed that limited rational investors demand a high equity premium. But as opposed to them, our approach additionally supports dividend smoothing.

Disappointment at drugs ruling

Disappointment at drugs ruling

Of vital importance but disappointing

Of vital importance but disappointing

Disappointing Results from a Trial of Diaphragm Use for HIV Prevention

Safe and effective female-controlled HIV prevention strategies are desperately needed throughout the world. However, microbicide trials have been

Disappointment at Potsdam

Disappointment at Potsdam

Schematic mismatch in the therapeutic relationship: A social-cognitive model

Cognitive-behavioural therapists recognise the therapeutic relationship as an important component of the process of change. The therapeutic relationship is a co-construction shaped via interactional sequences that occur when the therapist and patient are reacting moment-to-moment with each other. Robert Leahy reviews common dimensions of confusion, disappointment, conflict and resistance in the therapeutic relationship that emerge from these sequences. Of specific focus are the personal schemas and emotional schemas that both patient and therapist bring to the relationship, and how these individual schemas can create mismatches and thus disrupt interactions that can interfere with treatment. Seven common patterns of resistance that interfere with progress are identified, as well as interventions that may be useful in overcoming these potential roadblocks in treatment.

Disappointing Data on Computer-Aided Detection for Screening Mammography

In the decade since the FDA approved the use of computer-aided detection (CAD) for screening mammography, some breast-imaging centers have implemented

CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

This paper begins by noting that disappointments have been expressed with the communicative approach to language teaching, before discussing a number of problems involved in its implementation. This leads to the question of how English language teaching can attend to grammatical form, but without sacrificing the focus on communicative function. The paper then points to a convergence between strands of research in both theoretical and applied linguistics. In theoretical linguistics, the increasing prominence of ‘construction grammars' resonates nicely with recent suggestions that ‘lexical phrases' or ‘formulaic sequences' should be given greater focus in language teaching. The rest of the paper goes on to consider the pedagogical value of the notion of a construction.

An Incomplete Revolution

Shmuel Feiner's illuminating and provocative study The Jewish Enlighten ment surprises the reader. It sets out to narrate with intriguing optimism a profoundly pessimistic story. With a gesture reminiscent of the high spirits and bold aspirations of the maskilim, the historian draws back the curtain from the stage, intent on revealing the entire scene and showing the full impact of the drama in which the maskilim were involved: the beginnings of Jewish modernity. What he exposes is a rapid succession of hopes, fears, bitter conflicts, momentary successes, and ultimate disap pointments. Feiner's approach sheds new light on the darker sides of the Jewish Enlightenment. The enlightened intellectual is not circumspect, detached, and ironic but passionate and involved; curiosity is not a serene and playful state of mind but is risky and vexed; ideas and powers are not the stuff of patient negotiations but of fierce struggles. Feiner returns

Disappointing Data from Anti-HIV Microbicide Trials

Despite some progress, anti-HIV microbicides have generally yielded disappointing results, and the studies presented at this year’s IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention were no exception. Trials Halted As previously reported, two phase III, randomized, placebo-controlled trials of cellulose sulfate were stopped earlier this year, after one of the trials showed an increased incidence of HIV infection among women using the investigational compound (ACC Feb 12 2007). Now, researchers have provided more details about those trials. The CONRAD study took place in Africa and India and involved 1428 HIV-uninfected women (mean age, 30) who had multiple sex partners …

Prazosin for Nightmares Associated with PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder, one of the most common illnesses in combat soldiers, has a disappointing recovery rate. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, 8-week study, researchers examined the effect of prazosin on nightmares in 40 veterans with ongoing PTSD. This alpha-1 adrenergic antagonist is usually used for hypertension and benign prostatic hypertrophy. Prazosin was taken …

Circumcision to Prevent HIV: A Promising Strategy Raises Provocative Questions

As access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected people slowly penetrates the developing world, preventing new HIV infections remains a high priority. Unfortunately, efforts to lower transmission rates through behavior change and use of vaginal microbicides generally have been disappointing, and an HIV vaccine remains only a distant hope. In December 2006, the NIH announced the early termination of two randomized controlled studies of adult male circumcision in Kenya and Uganda after interim analyses showed that, in each trial, HIV …

Reconfigurable Computing. Accelerating Computation with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

Reconfigurable Computing. Accelerating Computation with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays by Maya B. Gokhale and Paul S. Graham Springer, 2005, 238 pp. ISBN-13 978-0387-26105-8, $87.20 Reconfigurable Computing Accelerating Computation with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays is an expository and easy to digest book. The authors are recognized leaders with many years of experience on the field of reconfigurable computing. The book is written so that non-specialists can understand the principles, techniques and algorithms. Each chapter has many excellent references for interested readers. It surveys methods, algorithms, programming languages and applications targeted to reconfigurable computing. Automatic generation of parallel code from a sequential program on conventional micro-processor architectures remains an open problem. Nevertheless, a wide range of computationally intensive applications have benefited from many tools developed to tackle such a problem. For RC, it is even a much harder problem (perhaps 10x and up) and intense research is being devoted to make RC a common-place practical tool. The aim of the authors is threefold. First, guide the readers to know current issues on HLL for RC. Second, help the readers understand the intricate process of algorithmic-to-hardware compilation. And third, show that, even though this process is painful, if the application is suitable for RC the gains in performance are huge. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains four chapters about reconfigurable computing and languages. Chapter 1 presents an introduction of RC, contrasting conventional fixed instruction microprocessors with RC architectures. This chapter also contains comprehensive reference material for further reading. Chapter 2 introduces reconfigurable logic devices by explaining the basic architecture and configuration of FPGAs. Chapter 3 deals with RC systems by discussing how parallel processing is achieved on reconfigurable computers and also gives a survey of RC systems today. Then, in chapter 4, languages, compilation, debugging and their related manual vs. automatic issues are discussed. The second part of the book comprises five chapters about applications of RC. Chapter 5 and 6 discuss digital signal and image processing applications. Chapter 7 covers the application of RC to secure network communications. The aim of Chapter 8 is to discuss some important bioinformatics applications for which RC is a good candidate, their algorithmic problems and hardware implementations. Finally, Chapter 9 covers two applications of reconfigurable supercomputers. The first one is a simulation of radiative heat transfer and the second one models large urban road traffic. This book is neither a technical nor a text book, but in the opinion of this reviewer, it is an excellent state-of-the-art review of RC and would be a worthwhile acquisition by anyone seriously considering speeding up a specific application. On the downside, it is somewhat disappointing that the book does not contain more information about HLL tools that could be used to help close the gap between traditional HPC community and the raw computing power of RC. Edusmildo Orozco, Department of Computer Science, University Of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

Specificities of the treatment of Parkinson's disease in the elderly

The treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) in subjects over 70 years old is simpler than in younger subjects for correcting the consequences of dopamine deficiency, but more complex with regard to symptoms resulting from non-dopaminergic lesions (axial symptoms, cognitive decline). Due to the lower risk of occurrence of motor fluctuations and severe dyskinesia, L-DOPA is the dopaminergic treatment with the best ratio of efficacy to side effects, and can be used without reservation. Treatment of non-dopaminergic symptoms is still disappointing. Apart from a partial beneficial effect of functional rehabilitation programmes, no treatment was demonstrated to be really effective for correcting dysarthria, swallowing disorders or impairment of gait and balance. Some efficacy in reducing the cognitive deficit in PD has been recently shown by cholinergic drugs, but their functional efficacy and their mid-term impact remain poor. Analysis of the different factors involved in the genesis of symptoms in PD (with the putative interest of the use of L-DOPA as a 'diagnostic tool'), and of the comorbidity usually enables cautious and pragmatic solutions to be found.

Disappointment without prior expectation: a unifying perspective on decision under risk

The central idea of Disappointment theory is that an individual forms an expectation about a risky alternative, and may experience disappointment if the outcome eventually obtained falls short of the expectation. We abandon the hypothesis of a well-defined prior expectation: disappointment feelings may arise from comparing the outcome received with anyof the gamble’s outcomes that the individual failed to get. This leads to a new, general form of Disappointment model. It encompasses Rank Dependent Utility with an explicit one-parameter probability transformation, and Risk-Value models with a generic risk measure including Variance, providing a unifying behavioral foundation for these models.

Tobacco use cessation for adolescents.

Adolescent tobacco users are unique. Thus far, effective interventions for adult tobacco users have been disappointing when applied to adolescents. This article reviews current evidence regarding adolescent tobacco use cessation interventions, explores under-researched areas in tobacco use cessation for adolescents, and offers assistance with treating adolescent tobacco users across the spectrum of use. A means of assessment and treatment of the adolescent smoker is proposed, and cases are included to assist the practitioner with treatment of the experimental tobacco user, the "adolescent-type" intermittent user, and the daily "adult-type" of adolescent tobacco user.

Disappointment, Not Burnout

Disappointment, Not Burnout

Pattern of satisfaction among neurosurgical inpatients.

To measure satisfaction among patients receiving indoor neurosurgical care and analyse the profile of the dissatisfied patients. Cross-sectional study. This study was undertaken at the Department of Neurosurgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad from March to April 2005. A total of 133 patients were included in the study by convenience sampling technique. All the patients, who received indoor care for a minimum of 24 hours and were discharged home, were included in the study . Patients who remained hospitalized for more than 4 weeks and those not consenting to participate were excluded. A questionnaire was used for the study that covered five fundamental areas of hospital care i.e. availability and behaviour of the staff, communication of information, residential and management issues. A five-point response scale was used to rate responses to the questions in each of these areas. The demographic profile of the patients and respondents, mode of admission, diagnosis, operation and duration of hospitalization were also recorded. The average of the responses to the questions in each of the five areas was taken as the fundamental area score (FAS) and the average of all these individual area scores was taken as the patient satisfaction score (PSS). Overall satisfaction index (OSI) was measured by calculating the average of PSS, willingness to return score and willingness to recommend score. Response rate was 100 %. Generally, patients were satisfied with care and rated various areas favourably. Behaviour of the staff was the highest rated area (95% score) while management was the lowest rated area (86.97% score). Dissatisfaction was more frequent among the young, the educated, the male and the relatives. The PSS was 91.32 %. Willingness to return score was 97.89% while willingness to recommend score was 95.48 %. The OSI was 94.89 %. Analysis of patients' dissatisfaction over specific aspects of health care serves to identify areas that could be improved by simple interventions, hence, patient satisfaction surveys should be conducted on regular basis in order to utilize patients' critical feedback for achieving service excellence and improved quality of care.

Beyond the Disappointment of Sex

The Obstetrician & GynaecologistVolume 8, Issue 3 p. 202-202 Beyond the Disappointment of Sex Dr. Ralph Roberts, Dr. Ralph Roberts Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Ulster Hospital, Belfast, UKSearch for more papers by this author Dr. Ralph Roberts, Dr. Ralph Roberts Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Ulster Hospital, Belfast, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1576/toag.8.3.202.27264AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume8, Issue3July 2006Pages 202-202 RelatedInformation