The origins of the capabilities approach within welfare economics are to be found in a series of influential papers and monographs, written by Amartya Sen in the early eighties of the previous century (Sen, 1980, 1985a; Sen et al., 1987). He developed and discussed the approach further in some widely read books (Sen, 1992, 1999; Nussbaum and Sen, 1993). The basic purpose of the approach is neat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Language dominance research using functional neuroimaging has made important contributions to clinical applications. Nevertheless, although recent neuroimaging studies demonstrated right-lateralized activation by human voice perception, the influence of voice perception in terms of language dominance has not been adequately studied. We aimed to accurately clarify language...

Children with special educational needs (SEN) are more likely to experience victimisation at school and there is some evidence to suggest that these children are also more likely to engage in bullying behaviours; however, no measure of bullying experiences has been designed specifically for use with these children. The Bullying Behaviour and Experiences Scale (BBES) was specifically developed a...

Simple heteroscedasticity is discussed in detail by Sen (1984), Sen & Ponnuswamy (1991) and Rahaman and Sen (1995). In this paper, heteroscedasticity is considered in a RBD assuming error variances vary from cell to cell. There are more than one observations per cell in this layout. The twoway general heteroscedastic model is considered here with interaction. On the assumption that the unequal ...

1 Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China 2 Scientific Computing Key Laboratory of Shanghai Universities, Shanghai 200234, China 3 Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India 4 Department of Finance, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan 5 Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-Sen University,...