Max Weber claimed that while Protestantism provided the proper ethos necessary to spur capitalism, Eastern religions did not. Japan’s economic success has belied his hypothesis, and while there have been various theories explaining its rise, perhaps Weber’s own claims regarding the connection between embeddedness and capitalism best explain Japan’s rise. Simply put, Japanese capitalism was born...

State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE), which holds the copyright. Positive Behavior Support Offered In Juvenile Corrections By C. Michael Nelson, George Sugai, and Carl Smith Across the U.S., schools are shifting their approach to school-wide discipline. Rather than assuming that all students enter school with the knowledge and skills necessary to meet expectations for behavioral decoru...

Motivated by the desire to appropriately account for complex features of network traac revealed in traac measurements, such as heavy-tail probability distributions, long-range dependence , self similarity and nonstationarity, we propose a nonstationary ooered-load model. Connections of multiple types arrive according to independent nonhomogeneous Poisson processes , and general bandwidth stocha...

Marks presents "homeostatic theory" which proposes that weight gain is fostered by a "Circle of Discontent" consisting of body dissatisfaction, negative affect, and overconsumption. This innovative framework offers potential intervention approaches, including victim-blaming, stigma, and discrimination, as well as devalorizing the thin-ideal. Our article discusses possible ways that clinical hea...