Existing estimates of rates of return on single art objects and whole collections are surveyed and critically evaluated. The psychic benefits from art are, in the few cases they are considered at all, derived from the difference to financial returns on other markets. This paper discusses determinants of psychic benefits and suggests rental fees and willingness to pay studies as a possible way t...

Three patients showed dramatic psychic akinesia after recovery from toxic encephalopathy. They had no or only mild motor disorders. The spontaneous psychic akinesia was reversible when the patient was stimulated, as if there was a loss of self psychic activation. Intellectual capacities were normal. Two patients had stereotyped behaviours resembling compulsions. In all patients CT cans showed b...

This study aims at characterizing the bene...ts of corporate international diversi...cation on stock values by introducing the notion of psychic distance in the analysis. In order to capture this crucial dimension, we construct a new internationalization index. Our ...ndings display evidence that this dimension signi...cantly in‡uences international exposure of ...rms belonging to the same indu...

To date no study has been made to explore the FDI motives of foreign firms in Pakistan. An attempt has been made to rectify this position through a survey of both whollyand majority-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the economy. Market size and growth variables appear to be the most cited reasons for FDI by MNEs in the sample. The use of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) also reinforces...

Analysis of a 1964 national survey reveals that residents of the South display a much higher level of anti-black prejudice than residents of the Nonsouth, but the regions differ only slightly on measures of anti-Semitism and anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant prejudice and on certain psychological measures--authoritarianism, anomia, and psychic inadequacy. This pattern persists even after introdu...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the health indicators of workers of hospital area for exposure to workloads, wear processes and its consequences. METHOD a retrospective, descriptive and exploratory study performed in a hospital in southern Brazil. The population consisted of 1,050 workers notifications of registered in the Monitoring System of Nursing Workers Health, in 2011. RESULTS 80.8% of the reco...

This paper describes two experiments which investigate how believers in the paranormal (labelled 'Sheep') and disbelievers (labelled 'Goats') recall different aspects of pseudo-psychic demonstrations (i.e., conjuring tricks that can be misinterpreted as genuine psychic phenomena). In both experiments Ss were first shown a videotape containing pseudo-psychic trickery. They were then asked to rat...