VOLUNTARY CONVERGENCE

Accreditation: Non-governmental and Voluntary?

Accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the United States. Other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. Recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in Iran. A major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that...

How Voluntary Is ‘voluntary’ Orienting of Attention?

HOW VOLUNTARY IS ‘VOLUNTARY’ ORIENTING OF ATTENTION? Caroline Decaix1,2, Eric Siéroff2 and Paolo Bartolomeo1,3 (1INSERM Unit 324, Centre Paul Broca, 2ter rue d’Alésia, 75014 Paris, France; 2Université René Descartes (Paris 5), Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, cnrs URA 8581, Paris, France; 3Neuroscience Department, Henri-Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France)

VOLUNTARY ASSURANCE OF VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE∗ by

Voluntary Implementation

We examine Nash implementation when individuals cannot be forced to accept the outcome of a mechanism. Two approaches are studied. The rst approach is static where a state-contingent participation constraint de nes an implicit mapping from rejected outcomes into outcomes that are individually rational. We call this voluntary implementation, and show that the constrained Walrasian correspondence...

Voluntary Hospitals

provident or " contracting out " nature, is to-day of much public interest. We venture to suggest that the voluntary principle is of paramount importance for the really effective working of the hospitals, and that by an organised effort that principle can not only be maintained but greatly extended. We have in Lewisham, Deptford and Greenwich proved this to be possible through the Hospitals Wel...