The development of the Gray-Wilson Personality Questionnaire is described; this is an instrument designed to measure human equivalents of six animal behaviour paradigms--Approach, Active Avoidance, Passive Avoidance, Extinction, Fight and Flight. Although these six scales showed satisfactory internal consistency they failed to link up into the three major systems suggested by Gray's personality...

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected million people worldwide, causing more than 700,000 deaths since late 2019. fight against this pandemic requires a joint effort among different areas as medicine, industry, technology and science. normal performance of essential services is necessary in the context facing disease. electricity supply ensures correct health response, it helps ...

1376 www.thelancet.com Vol 389 April 8, 2017 The USA is one of the richest countries in the world, but that reality means very little for most people because so much of that wealth is controlled by a tiny sliver of Americans. During the past 35 years, there has been a massive transfer of wealth away from the middle class and the poor to the top 0·1% of the US population. Despite advancements in...

We present a demonstration of a phone-to-phone Sword Fight! game. It utilizes our solution for achieving high speed 3D continuous localization described in the accompanying conference paper [1]. The approach uses acoustic cues based on time-difference of arrival and power level. It assumes at least two microphones and one speaker per phone, which is common on new smartphones. Accelerometers and...

1. Kotz D. After double checking records, injury toll from bombs reduced to 264. Boston Globe. April 24, 2013:B3. 2. Gawande A. Why Boston’s hospitals were ready. The New Yorker. April 17, 2013 (http:// www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/ 2013/04/why-bostons-hospitals-were-ready .html?printable=true&currentPage=all#ixzz 2QwMjfM13). 3. Kragh JF Jr, Littrel ML, Jones JA, et al. Battle casual...

In this case study we illustrate the high complexity of a rather simple inter-agency e-government service: change of address in Switzerland. This enables us to identify typical sources and dimensions of complexity for inter-agency services in countries with decentralised competencies among government agencies. From the resulting picture we draw conclusions on how to deal with complexity – and h...

The case for an increase in the role of insurance provision in the fight against poverty and vulnerability is well-established. This paper asks how it can be more effectively delivered to the poor, and what its role should be relative to other microfinance programmes, safety nets and informal insurance systems. It focuses on the various interactions, including how insurance may crowd out credit...

This article describes a system (Framework for Intervention) for dealing with behaviour problems . Problems in the current system are discussed. There is a description of the Framework and the trial of the procedures that took place in 1997. The current programme in Birmingham is outlined. The article argues that the system is both unique and possibly the only systematic hope in the fight to re...

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