The sequential generalized Lorenz (SGL) ordering is introduced by Atkinson and Bourguignon (1987) to rank heterogeneous income distributions. It is well-known that this ordering has a strong utilitarian support. In this note, we show that one does not have to be a utilitarian to accept this welfare ordering: the SGL ordering is supported by all increasing SWFs which record an increase in overal...

Criminals are drawn for the most part from, what are often mis-called, the criminal classes, that is, from the poor and needy, the maimed and the diseased?the halfstarved submerged tenth?whose main inducement to crime is that they have been less fortunate than their fellows in the division of this world's) goods. The majority are, on conviction, in decidedly indifferent health, and it is extrem...

The purpose of this study is to examine factors influencing U.S. charitable giving during the first full year of the Great Recession. Demand on the services of human service nonprofits typically escalates during periods of extreme economic downturn; thus donations to agencies serving the most vulnerable groups—the young, the old, and the frail—become increasingly important. The study sample con...

Primary Health Centres (PHC) started in 1952, as part of the first Five Year Plan in our country have been playing a vital role in the delivery of health care facilities to the needy in the community. PHC staff consists of doctors, nurses, block health educators, pharmacist, health assistants and multipurpose health workers (MPWs). The health workers, usually with 8 to 10 years of schooling, ar...

In today’s world, a most popular crime is Cybercrime. In this paper through a literature study, effect of ransomware is discussed. In this needy internet world, how crucial is to use a non-secure connection and how it will track a normal user or unaware user into the trap of hacker and after that losing money in terms of bit-coins. At last, with the damage cause by the latest attack of ransomwa...

Almost 5 million Syrians have been registered as refugees since the conflict started in 2011. Their mental health and psychosocial needs continue to grow as the situation at home gets more complicated. Syrian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and mental health professionals have been offering their support to help meet these needs. They have set up various centres and teams on the ground th...

Under the Social Security Act the public assistance for which Federal grants are made is defined as "money payments2 to or in behalf of needy persons. In accordance with the intent expressed by Congress in framing the law and with judicial definitions, the Social Security Board has interpreted money payments to mean that "payments must be in cash, checks, or warrants immediately redeemable at p...

When the ocular outer surface is badly damaged, subsequent corneal transplantation fails due to the absence of basal cells that are needed to support the graft. With the realization that the limbus and the conjunctiva have adult stem cells that can be cultured, it has been possible for us to explant culture these on de-epithelized human amniotic membrane, and to graft the resulting viable and t...

Battered women (n = 159) report on their experiences with their Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) case workers. Workers most often ask about physical harm, feelings of fear, and police involvement. They least often create a safety plan, give information about work exemptions, and ask whether the partner had a gun. Women's major reasons for not talking about abuse are that the worker...

This article examines how male rites of initiation in Europe have been replaced by adjustments to lifecourse events located within the enlarged sphere of entertainment. These adjustments foster new forms of attachment and separation. Based on an interpretation of European films and informed by ethnographic fieldwork, it argues that contemporary European masculinity no longer relies on violent, ...