This paper reviews current research regarding the prevalence and possible etiological factors associated with male sexual coercion, defi ned here as a class of inappropriate male behaviors in which nonphysical tactics (e.g., verbal pressure, lying, deceit, and continual arguments) are utilized to obtain sexual contact with an unwilling adult female. This form of sexual misconduct is contrasted ...

This paper documents the existence of striking regional di®erences in the reported behaviour of employees working within the same ̄rm but in di®erent Italian regions. In particular, the frequency of recorded and punished misconduct episodes is signi ̄cantly higher among employees working in the south; migrants moving from the north to the south assimilate completely to the higher rate of miscond...

The pursuit of scientific knowledge engenders both a profound sense of wonder and responsibility. As life scientists, we endeavor to discover hidden truths that will illuminate specific pathways underlying basic life or death processes, or the mechanism of action of a therapeutic intervention. But what is truth? We expect what is true in a given set of experiments to be self-evident in our publ...

We show that quantum state tomography with perfect knowledge of the measurement apparatus proves to be, in some instances, inferior strategies discarding all information about at hand, as case data pattern tomography. In those scenarios, larger uncertainty is traded for smaller reconstructed signal. This effect more pronounced minimal or nearly informationally complete settings, which are utmos...

The honesty and integrity of scientists is widely believed to be threatened by pressures to publish, unsupportive research environments, and other structural, sociological and psychological factors. Belief in the importance of these factors has inspired major policy initiatives, but evidence to support them is either non-existent or derived from self-reports and other sources that have known li...

Recently, the Federal Circuit in Knorr-Bremse v. Dana overruled almost twenty years of precedent by striking down the adverse inference doctrine, which had created a negative presumption against any alleged patent infringer for failing to obtain and disclose a patent opinion letter at trial. The decision, while strongly supported by numerous intellectual property and business associations, has ...