She believed that she had persuaded Summers to raise the stimulus recommendation above the initial estimate, six hundred billion dollars, to something closer to eight hundred billion dollars, but she was frustrated that she wasn't allowed to present an even larger option.
That's the same President who turned the economic reins over to failed economic thinkers -- the kind who bullied down Christina Romer's $1.8 trillion stimulus recommendation, which conceivably could have ended the Great Recession and helped the 23 million Americans who are still un- or under-employed.
Based on these results, we make several recommendations regarding optimal stimulus protocols, and conclude that an experimental design based on narrowband stimuli provides the best sensitivity to frequency-dependent responses to determine tonotopic maps.
But the Summers memo barely mentioned Congress, noting only that his recommendation of a stimulus above six hundred billion dollars was "an economic judgment that would need to be combined with political judgments about what is feasible".
Many members of the new Republican majority in the House campaigned against the stimulus, and Washington is debating the recommendations of a debt-reduction commission.
A routine use of right unilateral (RUL) electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) with an adequately suprathreshold stimulus dose is encouraged by the latest recommendation of the American Psychiatric Association APA Task Force Guidelineses for ECT [ 1].
Chuck Lane's got an interesting piece out today about austerity and Keynesian stimulus that leads to a smart, simple policy recommendation (and for the record, "simple" is a beautiful word when it comes to policy).
Analysis of stimulus-locked responses was done using the current recommendations for both software packages.
Based on Bandura's (1997) recommendations on measuring self-efficacy, the item stimulus referred to the degree to which they believed they can do these tasks.
To implement subjective evaluation, our test procedure is set up similar to the double stimulus impairment scale (DSIS) method formalized in ITU-R Recommendation BT.500-10 [24].
