Several news stories appeared the month before the Animal Welfare Forum that illustrate a dilemma often expressed during the meeting. On Nov 1, 1996, the Sarasota Herald Tribune carried a graphic account of a 10-year-old boy killed by a neighbor's Rottweilers,1 and on November 27, a press conference in Pound Ridge, New York credited Abby the Rottweiler with foiling a baby's kidnapping by biting...

We propose a tracing scheme of e-cash which has not only fair tracing ability but also lower computational complexity for comparisons. Many other protocols allow optimistic fair tracing which means that illegal tracing can be found after tracing and depositing in bank. But in this scheme, illegal tracing done by bank alone is impossible. We propose a marking mechanism based on a variant of an O...

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for non-participating women then these predictions estimate participation equation. find that decision is not influenced by their earnings. also show there exists a significant gap employment propensities a...

Changes in political or religious beliefs among POWs and hostages have often been attributed to "brainwashing" or "coercive persuasion." The cases reported have usually involved people held involuntarily. Since the publication of DSM-Ill, the authors have noted frequent usage of the term "atypical dissociative disorder" in civil lawsuits by plaintiffs seeking damages from groups or cults they j...