admitting patients to the Royal Western Counties Hospital. In December 1957 there were 574 persons ascertained as mentally defective under the English Mental Deficiency Acts and under statutory supervision or guardianship. These patients were scattered in their own homes throughout Cornwall, and were visited and reported upon at quarterly or more frequent intervals by county social workers. The...

In this paper we investigate the issue of resource matching between jobs and machines in Intel’s compute farm. We show that common heuristics such as Best-Fit and Worse-Fit may fail to properly utilize the available resources when applied to either cores or memory in isolation. In an attempt to overcome the problem we propose Mix-Fit, a heuristic which attempts to balance usage between resource...

This study investigated how a job seeker self-presentation affects recruiter’s hiring recommendations in an online communities and what categories of self-presentation contribute to fit perceptions for obtaining hiring recommendations. The study participants viewed potential candidates’ LinkedIn profiles and responded to questions regarding the argument quality and source credibility of their s...

Background An overview of compulsory admission and civil commitment in Germany is presented. Legal, administrative, and methodological aspects are described. The expiry of compulsory admission or retention in a closed psychiatric ward is not strictly identical to legal commitment. In Germany, civil commitment (a form of guardianship) is regulated on a nationwide basis. Public commitment (throug...

History of the Patient from official documents The patient, Z., was born in February 1926, and in 1933 at the age of 7 was graded educationally defective. Until 1942 he attended special schools, but he was then charged with "feloniously stealing a plane and two chisels of the value together of twenty-six shillings". This precipitated action under the Mental Deficiency Act, and he was placed und...