Group supervision was initiated in order to meet the training needs of psychiatric postgraduates. The experience of the group was surveyed at the end of one year. It was found that the use of groups as an adjunct to individual supervision was an eminently practical and acceptable method of facilitating training, accessing peer group support and auditing clinical care.

his article is a personal account of T my experiences in developing control experiments for the purpose of control research. The article does not address the important questions surrounding the development of control experiments for undergraduate education. Rather, the emphasis is on research, specifically, the role that control experiments can play in motivating new theoretical ideas. To stimu...

A human subject laboratory experiment compares the real-time market performance of the two most popular auction formats for online ad space, Vickrey-ClarkeGroves (VCG) and Generalized Second Price (GSP). Theoretical predictions made in papers by Varian (2007) and Edelman, et al. (2007) seem to organize the data well overall. Efficiency under VCG exceeds that under GSP in nearly all treatments. ...

Status of this Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Integrated exploration strategy advocated in this paper refers to a tight coupling between the tasks of localization, mapping, and motion control and the effect of this coupling on the overall effectiveness of an exploration strategy. Our approach to exploration calls for a balanced evaluation of alternative motion actions from the point of view of information gain, localization quality, and na...

This paper describes an experiment undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of inline substitution as a method of improving the running time of compiled code. Our particular interests are in the interaction between inline substitution and aggressive code optimization. To understand this relationship, we used commercially available FORTRAN optimizing compilers as the basis for our study. This pa...

A customer of high assurance software recently sponsored a software engineering experiment in which a small real-time software system was developed concurrently by two popular software development methodologies. One company specialized in the stateof-the-practice waterfall method rated at a Capability Maturity Model Level 4. A second developer employed his mathematically based formal method wit...

We study whether information about imminent future dividends can abate bubbles in experimental asset markets. Using the seminal design of Smith et al. (1988) we find that markets where traders are asymmetrically informed about future dividends have smaller, and shorter, bubbles than markets with symmetrically informed or uninformed traders. Hence, fundamental values are better reflected in mark...

In its 1985 election for council The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) ran a test of approval voting by sending a non-binding approval ballot to its members along with the regular plurality ballot. In approval voting a person votes for (approves of) as many candidates as desired, the winner being the candidate with the most votes. Two of the TIMS contests had three candidates for a single...