answer to the question why children come to the Psychological Clinic would seem to be of some significance in this connection. The present paper attempts to answer this question by an examination of clinical records of one year (1929) in the Psychological Clinic of the University of Pennsylvania. A study of these cases will be of value as an indication of the status of clinical psychology in a ...

Following Micali and Valiant [MV07.a], a mechanism is resilient if it achieves its objective without any problem of (1) equilibrium selection and (2) player collusion. To advance resilient mechanism design, • We put forward a new meaningful benchmark for the combined social welfare-revenue performance of any mechanism in truly combinatorial auctions. • We put forward a new notion of implementat...

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the welfare of farm animals, which have been evaluated using behavioral and physiological measures. However, so far, the measures have almost always been used to estimate poor welfare. In this review, firstly we focus on how oxytocin (OT) relates to positive social behavior, pleasure, and stress tolerance, and second on which management factors st...

Even though federal laws have had a major influence on foster care and child welfare policy for more than 40 years, additional reforms are needed to ensure safe and stable families for children in care. This article describes the complex array of policies that shape federal foster care and observes: A number of federal policies addressing issues such as housing, health care, welfare, social sec...

Online open knowledge sharing is the idea that the Internet can promote the aggregation and dissemination of useful knowledge between a potentially large number of people. Starting from the knowledge sharing idea, various types of online open knowledge sharing services have provided the central platform for users to interact with each other, share their knowledge, and even jointly create new kn...

The following was delivered by the author to the High Level American Meeting of Experts on The Challenges of Social Reform and New Administrative and Financial Management Techniques. The meeting, which took place September 5-7, 1994, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, was sponsored by the International Social Security Association at the invitation of the Argentine Secretariat for Social Security in c...

America's dual interest in social welfare and practical science fueled the emergence of social psychology in the late 19th century. By that century's end, psychologists had presented diverse and sometimes contesting models of social psychology. These varied conceptualizations, however, were challenged by the discipline's growing dedication to the scientific method and experimentation, as well a...

We provide an axiomatization of expected equally-distributed equivalent-utility social welfare functions in the context of Harsanyi’s impartial observer theorem. For this family of social welfare functions, we show what additional axiom is necessary and suffi cient for the observer to exhibit aversion to ex post inequality. We also relate this axiomatization to our axiomatization in a companion...

1. M.A. in Psychiatric Nursing Management, Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabila on, Tehran, Iran. 2. Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabila on, Tehran, Iran. 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare and Rehabila on, Tehran, Iran. 4. Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilita on Manag...