The Hostage of Harvard

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

Hostage Taking and Kidnapping in Terrorism: Predicting the Fate of a Hostage

This article examines how open source data collected and organized in a relational database can be used to better understand the factors that contribute to the decision to kill or release a hostage in a terrorist kidnapping situation. This study is significant because of its quantitative approach since this area of study has suffered a shortage of quantitative data and corresponding analyses. T...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...