DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT AND ITS PENALTY.

Disgraceful "Ladies"

conduct disorder and its clinical characteristics

conduct disorder is a general psychiatric classification encompassing a variety of behavior patterns in which the individual repetitively and persistently violates the rights, privilages and privacy of others, for these children and adolescents, the authority figures like parents and teachers are assumed as intervening and punishing individuals, some of these patients are diagnosed as having at...

FTSE4Good: exploring its implications for corporate conduct

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to critically evaluate membership of the FTSE4Good “socially responsible investment” indices (membership of which is based on ethical criteria), which were launched in the UK in July 2001 as a means of increased accountability and change. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts an interpretive and critical approach when examining the perceptions of c...

Penalty Logic and its Link with Dempster-Shafer Theory

Penalty logic, introduced by Pinkas [17], as­ sociates to each formula of a knowledge base the price to pay if this formula is violated. Penalties may be used as a criterion for se­ lecting preferred consistent subsets in an in­ consistent knowledge base, thus inducing a non-monotonic inference relation. A pre­ cise formalization and the main properties of penalty logic and of its associated no...

The Age Penalty and Its Eeect on Cache Performance

Web content caching is recognized as an eeective mechanism to decrease server load, network traac, and user-perceived latency. An HTTP compliant cache associates with each cached object an expiration time calculated according to directives set by the ob-ject's origin server. The cache incurs a miss when it has no cached copy of a requested object or when the existing copy had expired (is not fr...