OBJECTIVES The aims of this review were to calculate the diagnostic accuracy statistics of risk scales following self-harm and consider which might be the most useful scales in clinical practice. DESIGN Systematic review. METHODS We based our search terms on those used in the systematic reviews carried out for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence self-harm guidelines (2012)...

False feedback on choices has been documented to induce lasting preference change. Here we extend such effects to the political domainand investigatethetemporal persistence of induced preferences, as well as, the possible role the length of confabulatory justifications may play. We conducted a twoday choice blindness experiment using political statements, with sessions being roughly one week ap...

To explain the problems of development – with a billion people mired in poverty and governments resistant to economic reform – economists and political scientists have proposed a wide range of development or poverty traps: self-reinforcing mechanisms that prevent developing countries from embarking on the path of steady development. Economists, though not exclusively, tend to focus on the probl...

Almost every e-commerce site employs a so-called reputation mechanism that collects and publishes ratings from its users which then allow other market participants to make betterinformed choices. It is instructive to distinguish between two kinds of reputation mechanisms in accordance with the problems they address: those that are employed by online opinion forums, such as Amazon Reviews, are b...

This paper focuses on the quadratic stabilization problem for a class of uncertain impulsive switched systems. The uncertainty is assumed to be norm-bounded and enters both the state and the input matrices. Based on the Lyapunov methods, some results on robust stabilization and quadratic stabilization for the impulsive switched system are obtained. A stabilizing state feedback control law reali...

the present study was conducted to examine the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of iranian efl teachers and also the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of intermediate adult learners individually. to this end, 40 efl teachers and 55 intermediate adult learners were selected from two branches of kish language institute. in this study, “...

this study aimed to explain the role of self-leadership and self-management on human capital of ministry of c.l and s.w. the research method was descriptive and correlational and data analysis metod was sem that using cochran's sampling formula that sample size was determined 306 personnel by simple random sampling. self-leadership and self-management of abili and mazari (2014) with reliab...