reading in psychology, law, ethics and theology, together with an intimate experiencf^ a psychotherapist of the inner life of people bedevilled by guilt feelings. He deals the origin and development of guilt and anxiety, and the contrast between those domina throughout life by a stern super-ego and those who mature to a real sense of personal ponsibility which can accept the objective fact of t...

Retinoschisis is a splitting of the neural elements of the retina which generally occurs first in the outer plexiform layer. Two types are described: the rare congenital sex-linked type affecting males, and the more common acquired or "senile"type which may occur in adults of any age and even in children. In this paper only the latter type will be considered. Although acquired retinoschisis is ...

We investigate the hypothesis that macroeconomic fluctuations are primitively the results of many microeconomic shocks. We define fundamental volatility as the volatility that would arise from an economy made entirely of idiosyncratic sectoral or firm-level shocks. Fundamental volatility accounts for the swings in macroeconomic volatility in the major world economies in the past half-century. I...

INTRODUCTION T HE BIOLOGIC processes that produce a gross physical change have always attracted much interest. The transformation of fluid blood to solid clot, for instance, has been the subject of experiment and discussion the amount of which seems disproportionate to its fundamental physiologic importance. There is, however , a converse to this process of coagulation which, though equally obv...

Pigments are compounds with characteristics of importance to many industries. In the food industry they are used as additives, color intensifiers, antioxidants, etc. Pigments come in a wide variety of colors, some of which are water-soluble [1]. The production colorant from biological agents for food and textile has attracted increased interests in recent years. Nature produces many biocolorant...

Karen Ann Quinlan and Theresa Marie Schiavo are names tied to legal controversies over the withdrawal of medical treatment at the end of life. In re Quinlan1 arose at a time when the rules for decisionmaking for incompetent patients were still unformed and inchoate. It set the framework of analysis for most of the subsequent development in the field. Schiavo,2 on the other hand, arose over a di...

In actual multiple attribute decision making, people often use language to evaluate attributes of the object, and sometimes there are associations between attributes. Therefore, study making with as is great theoretical significance practical value. The Heronian mean not only an operator which reflects attributes, but also has excellent properties, including idempotency, monotonicity, boundedne...