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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53744#.VNHHdCzQrzE Author(s)    Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen 1* , Rasmus Antoft 2 , Jette Primdahl 3,4 , Kim Hørslev Petersen 3,4   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Medicine and Health Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark . 2 Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark . 3 Kong Chr. X’s Hospital of Rheumatic Diseases, Graasten, Denmark . 4 Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark . ABSTRACT Drawing on a social phenomenological perspective in the sociology of everyday life, this ethno-graphic field study explores different ways in which women with rheumatoid arthritis perceive participation in a patient education programme as significant to their everyday lives. In particular, there are three ways in which this participation is perceived as significant to e...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49048#.VDYinVfHRK0 Author(s)    Karim Errouaki Affiliation(s) Foundation for the Culture of Peace, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain . ABSTRACT The recent failure of commonly accepted, inductive, econometric models to provide insights into real, macroeconomic phenomenon during economic crises has provoked a debate concerning contemporary econometric methodology. Based on the foundations laid by Haavelmo, and Hollis and Nell, an assessment of Edward J. Nell’s (1998) “unifying methodological framework” (UMF) is offered. Nell’s UMF places socioeconomic institutions and interdependencies, and technological realities as basis of analysis. U si...