Background In 2004, two independent working groups in Germany and Switzerland compared the frequency and duration of coercive measures in standard psychiatric care across 14 psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Switzerland. The objective was to establish an international knowledge transfer process in order to reduce the frequency and duration of coercive measures on a long-term basis to an exte...

In this paper, we prove the random homogenization of general coercive non-convex HamiltonJacobi equations in the one dimensional case. This extends the result of Armstrong, Tran and Yu when the Hamiltonian has a separable form H(p, x, ω) = H(p) + V (x, ω) for any coercive H(p). Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 35B27

Purpose – This paper applies organizational development (OD) process-cultural and structural change strategies to synthesize Etzioni’s three approaches to power and compliance: normative, coercive and remunerative to study the management control systems of teams in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses library-archives research. Findings – OD’s process and structural diffe...

Do societies choose inefficient policies and institutions, in contrast to what would be suggested by a reasoning extending the Coase Theorem to politics? Do societies choose inefficient policies and institutions because of differences in the beliefs and ideologies of their peoples or leaders? Or are inefficiencies in politics and economics the outcome of social and distributional conflicts? Thi...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the leadership power perceptions of soccer coaches and soccer players according to their educational levels. Data were collected from 165 male soccer coaches and 870 male soccer players. Adapted versions of the "Power in Soccer Questionnaire-Other", the "Power in Soccer Questionnaire-Self" and an "information form" were used for data collection, and coll...

Today’s utility regulation is marked with change, including the internationalization of infrastructure, challenges to traditional utility business models, the decline of the natural resource model for water, emerging market structures that are sometimes weakly competitive, and companies such as Google that aspire to be the dominant managers of the world’s information, computing, and network res...

Near-stoichiometric lithium tantalate (SLT) crystals were produced from congruent lithium tantalate by a vapor-transport equilibration process. Because of the resultant increase in photoconductivity and reduction in photogalvanism, the crystals showed no observable photorefractive damage at 514.5 nm up to the highest intensity used, 2 MW/cm2. The crystals also exhibited low green-induced infrar...

Since December 1993, elections have been ‘the only game in town’ for the legitimate transfer of political power in Russia. That has led politicians – and the Kremlin itself – to targeting specifically the military servicemen as an electorate. The large number of people associated with the military in one way or another in Russia makes it reasonable for politicians to consider the military a par...