Books reviewed: International and Comparative Employment Relations, Chris Brewster The Privatisation Process in East-Central Europe. Evolutionary Processes of Czech Privatizations, Anne Mills Fighting for Partnership: Labour and Politics in Unified Germany, Tony Royle The Left's Dirty Job: The...

The commercial development of oil and gas in Pennsylvania can be traced back nearly 160 years to Drake’s Well near the city of Titusville, where the first oil boom in the United States officially began. With continued growth and success throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, the...

As machine learning (ML) systems are getting used for making high-stakes decisions affecting people, there is a growing demand and focus on making these systems more interpretable and explainable. The assumption is that more explainable ML models can improve the decision-making process when...

The recent surge of interest in algorithmic decision-making among scholars across disciplines is associated with its potential to resolve the challenges common to administrative decision-making in the public sector, such as greater fairness and equal treatment of each individual, among others....

Design is a critical area in development control practice, and design appeals constitute a particularly important set of control cases. This is especially true in Britain where developers make much more use of the appeal system than elsewhere, and where central government utilises appeals to...

Previous work (Bell and Jones, Demogr Res <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">2013a</CitationRef>; Bell and Jones, Soc Sci Med <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2013c</CitationRef>; Luo and Hodges, Under review <CitationRef CitationID="CR14">2013</CitationRef>) has shown that, when there are trends in either the period or cohort residuals of Yang and Land’s Hierarchical age–period–cohort (APC) model (Yang and Land, Sociol...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

There is ongoing debate regarding the shape of life-course trajectories in mental health. Many argue the relationship is U-shaped, with mental health declining with age to mid-life, then improving. However, I argue that these models are beset by the age–period–cohort (APC) identification...