Hostage Retrieval

Hostage Posting

We survey research on incurring commitments by voluntary hostage posting as a mechanism of cooperation. The Trust Game is employed as a paradigmatic example of cooperation problems. We sketch a very simple game-theoretic model that shows how voluntary hostage posting can bind the trustee and thus induce trustfulness of the trustor as well as trustworthiness of the trustee. We then indicate how ...

The Hostage Seekers

group of eighty couples, f?f * childless and forty adopfi^ parents, living in a fairly unsophi^ cated rural area. The author his interviewer worked closely ^ , the consultant of the local hospi*3 who had seen all these couples o^e their problem of infertility durinthe preceding ten years. The results of this research fascinating reading, sometimes ploding the tenderly held theor'e of many adopt...

Military Psychiatry and Hostage Negotiation 271 INTRODUCTION TYPES OF HOSTAGE SITUATIONS Criminal Domestic Terrorist PRINCIPLES OF HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION THE NEGOTIATION MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION

Yeast Killer Elements Hold Their Hosts Hostage

Cytoplasmic linear double-stranded DNA plasmids (or virus-like elements [VLEs]) encoding a secreted toxin, immunity to the toxin, and their own replication and transcription systems were first discovered in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis by Norio Gunge [1]. The K. lactis toxin, like similar protein toxins produced by similar cytoplasmic linear DNA plasmids in Pichia acacia and Debaryomyces robe...

Predictive Modeling in Hostage and Barricade Incidents

The study examined 534 hostage and barricade incidents. Its objective was to present an integrated and formalized vision of current conceptualizations of critical incidents to optimize decision making. To this end, logistic regression and recursive partitioning models are presented and compared. In all, 18 distinct static and dynamic individual and situational factors were used to predict vario...