The regression-discontinuity design. What a terrible name! In everyday language both parts of the term have connotations that are primarily negative. To most people "regression" implies a reversion backwards or a return to some earlier, more primitive state while "discontinuity" suggests an unnatural jump or shift in what might otherwise be a smoother, more continuous process. To a research methodologist, however, the term regression-discontinuity (hereafter labeled "RD") carries no such negative meaning. Instead, the RD design is seen as a useful method for determining whether a program or treatment is effective.

This thing is impressive. It has a detachable keyboard and you can stick it to your fridge and watch videos.

Online discussion on documentation of human rights violations

Cairo’s administrative court rejected a case brought by lawyers seeking the expulsion from the police force of two officers convicted of sexually abusing and torturing a man in their custody.

The Egyptian government is listed as a client by two top K-Street lobbying firms, the Podesta and Livingston Groups, and although the exact cost of their services is confidential the fact that Podesta charged up to $13m over ten years to help the Turkish government persuade movers and shakers on Capitol Hill that there was no such thing as an Armenian genocide suggests that the Egyptian regime is shelling out an awful lot on polishing its image

Amidst the Suffering, Crisis in Haiti Offers Opportunities to the U.S.

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Article 16 of the draft law provides that specialist and consultant doctors must acquire a total of 250 accreditation points over the course of a five-year period and at least 70 points during the first 2 years of this period.

Well this monster drug may be used with AIDS and is currently under trials for treating depression and many other inflammatory diseases. Due to it's anti-TNFα action.

اهتم الكثيرون بعد أحداث نجع حمّادي (الجنائيّة غير الطائفيّة التي وقعت بالمصادفة البحتة في اليوم الذي يحتفل فيه المسيحيّون الشرقيّون بعيد الميلاد) بما يُسمّى بـ"مطالب مسيحيي مصر"، وتجاهلوا-كالعادة-مطالب الأغلبيّة الكاسحة من أغلبيّة الشعب المصريّ، المسلمين.

Do bloggers have any influence in changing authoritarian regimes? Egyptian Blogger, Journalist, and activist Wael Abbas is a thorn in the side of the government and got month a million people read his blog. Zeinab Badawi asks; Is he just gaining celebrity status, or is he making a real difference?

RSS feed for latest statements released by the interior ministry.

I went through eight years of training to become a surgeon, and yet I still see mistakes every week. So we decided to try something new, which was a checklist. We worked with Boeing to learn how they made checklists for cockpits. We made a two-minute checklist for operating rooms.

أحالت الشؤون القانونية بالمجلس القومى للصحة النفسية مدير مستشفى بنى سويف للصحة النفسية إلى النيابة العامة لإعطائه جلسات علاج كهربائى لمريض بدون تخدير، وهو ما يعد انتهاكاً لحقوق المريض النفسى وفقا لقانون رعاية المريض النفسى

A series of photos taken by a news photographer may have been staged.

More photos of the underground wall construction.

Meklit Hadero, an Ethiopian-born musician and 2009 TEDGlobal Fellow, sings a very moving song in support of Kareem:

I thought loads of people around the world were tweeting about Gaza, it was only a bunch of people who spammed Twitter to make it trend.

No doubt they'll soon get well; the shock and strain / Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. / Of course they're 'longing to go out again', - / These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk. / They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed / Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died, - / Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud / Of glorious war that shatter'd their pride... / Men who went out to battle, grim and glad; / Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.

Amazing.

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حرف الأحا

In Egypt, a private pilot programme aiming at a holistic treatment of the issues of burns patients started in 1989 in Assiut, the capital of Upper Egypt.

This is fasheekh!

Since May 2009, Egyptian border guards shot and killed at least 17 migrants from countries such as Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan as they tried to cross into Israel at or near the Sinai border. General Muhammad Shousha, the governor of North Sinai, was quoted after the killings of four migrants in September justifying the policy of shooting at the migrants as "necessary."