AIMS The treatment of patients with a severe mental disorder is generally not good enough. The aim of this article was to illustrate some alternative approaches for better understanding and treatment for the individual, besides seeing and interpreting the symptoms. METHODS The context of understanding is regulation of emotions whit a person-based approach. The self-referral-to-inpatient-treat...

5. Auditor or Certification Authority certifies that the election results are correct and have been determined as originally specified. Who the Auditor is depends on who the results are being certified for. In physical elections in the US this role is played by a specified government/judicial official. In physical elections in some countries like India, this role is played by a citizen who is n...

Effective Organizations 1 Abstract The school reform movement seeks higher educational standards for all students, moving authority into the local school to develop new approaches and apply resources appropriately to meet the needs of all students, and new approaches to teaching and learning to meet the educational needs of modern society. The transition is fundamental, and there are very few i...

Ward and Gleditsch (1998) showed that democratization reduces war proneness; as contemporary polities become more democratic, the probability that they will be involved in interstate war declines. This research reexamines and extends the previous work on the “dangerous democratization” versus “democratizing for peace” hypotheses in two major ways. First, we examine the claim that major powers h...

This study examined five areas of Arab parent involvement in elementary schools in an urban Midwestern district using structured surveys of Arab (n = 45) and non-Arab (n = 87) teachers and interviews of 39 first-generation Arab mothers. Factor analysis, a statistical approach used to analyze and explain the interrelationships among a large number of variables, was used on each area and yielded ...

This study analysed competition at port and terminal levels resulting from the involvement of a authority, Sri Lanka Port Authority (SLPA), Global Terminal Operator, China Merchant Holdings (CMPH), in Colombo Hambantota ports. It also considered operators’ disparate interests two The terminals’ pricing decisions SLPA CMPH were taking into account cooperation among terminals one owned by same Op...