(2316 articles) evolution (1701 articles) behaviour Articles on similar topics can be found in the following collections Email alerting service here right-hand corner of the article or click Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article-sign up in the box at the top Strong reciprocity is characterized by the willingness to altruistically reward cooperative acts and to altruistic...

Between the president's focus on Social Security and the release of the latest Medicare Trustees report this spring, most of the media's attention has been focused on these two federal programs. But it is Medicaid that is presenting the more immediate challenge for both the current federal budget and the states.

The present paper deals with the construction of health interfederal networks, composed by each federate organization that together will manage nationwide the Unified Health System in a shared and coordinated way. It also ranks the necessary conceptual elements to the network construction and adequate operation like local management boards, interfederal board of trustees and administrative orga...

citation Penskar, M.R. 2004. Special plant abstract for Euphorbia commutata (tinted spurge). Michigan Natural Features Inventory. Lansing, MI. 3 pp. Copyright 2004 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. Michigan State University Extension is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity organization. Funding for abstract provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Co...

1 Angola, Cambodia, Liberia, Somalia are all generally regarded not only as failed states, but as state-building failures. The list could easily be extended. In each instance, an international trustee, typically the United Nations or a " coalition of the willing " sanctioned by the United Nations, intervened more or less forcefully to rehabilitate a state that had fallen into anarchy and chaos....

INTRODUCTION Changing health care systems and market competition requires hospital boards to shift their focus towards a systematic governance of the quality of care. The objective of our study was to describe hospital governance and the quality orientation in the Netherlands. Also we wished to investigate the relationship with hospital performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS The chairs of both th...

The Joseph William Gottstein Memorial trust Fund was established in 1971 as a national educational Trust for the benefit of Australia's forest products industries. The purpose of the fund is to create opportunities for selected persons to acquire knowledge which will promote the interests of Australian industries which use forest products for the production of sawn timber, plywood, composite wo...

We study the behaviour of rational agents in exchange protocols which rely on trustees. We allow malicious parties to compromise the trustee by paying a cost and, thereby, present a game analysis that advocates exchange protocols which induce balanced risks on the participants. We also present a risk-balanced protocol for fair confidential secret comparison.

We investigate the concept of mindreading in a trust–reciprocity experiment. Our results show that the Trustees send back more, the stronger the Trustors’ property rights are. But instead of strategically relying on this reciprocal behavior, Trustors tend to unilaterally implement a fair outcome.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.