The Pensions Advisory Council produces first-rate studies on the future financing of public pensions, which successive governments have used to promote reform.
Joseph Ellis, the author of a first-rate study of the Founding Fathers, told his students that he had fought in Vietnam when the closest he came to combat was sitting in a university library.
The Independent asked the former historian, who in his youth wrote a first-rate study of Clydeside labour leader James Maxton, whether he planned ever to return to historical biography.
He called the volunteering study "a really first-rate exploratory study that should be scaled up to see if the outcomes are the same in a larger population".
As documented in Joan Acocella's first-rate critical study from 1993, "Mark Morris," he grew up in Seattle immersed in folk dance, Serbian dance especially.
He has spent his professional life as a first-rate researcher, studying antibiotics.
The raters in this study first rated two student essays without a rubric, and later with one.
In order to estimate the disutility associated with adverse events commonly associated with antipsychotic treatment for schizophrenia, participants in Study 3 first rated health state A (i.e., the "basic health state"), which described stable schizophrenia without an adverse event.
Furthermore, we wrote item-specific instructions, which we found very helpful and likely increased the agreement for most items, except for the two items whose instructions were modified during the course of the quality assessment (in some cases between the first and second rating for individual studies).
To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to report rates of psychosocial remission using a validated rating scale.
For example, cofounder John Sun says that while many people intuitively think they should pay off the balance with the highest interest rate first, studies have shown that it's actually better to pay off your smaller debts first regardless of their interest rate (it gives people a better sense of accomplishment).
