Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe and generally chronic disorder that presents patients and their family members with multiple challenges. Little is currently known about how much family members of patients with BPD know about this disorder. Thirty-two family members of BPD patients were assessed for their level of knowledge about BPD. Knowledge level was then correlated with fa...

The paper shows the higher valuation of family firms occurs only for family firms founded by several non-related people (multi-family cofounding firms), particularly founder controlled multi-family cofounding firms. The evidence suggests that having at least two unrelated cofounders involved in management reduces agency problems through mutual monitoring, reducing the number of shareholder prop...

We consider estimating tail events using exponential families of importance sampling distributions and show that under mild conditions on the exponential family we can achieve bounded relative error. Keywords: rare event simulation, relative error, g&h distribution, Monte Carlo methods, Importance sampling, Cross-entropy, Rényi Divergence. 1 Introduction Suppose X is a random variable with cumu...

The objectives of this study were to elicit Canadian health professionals' views on the barriers to identifying and treating late-life depression in primary care settings and on the solutions felt to be most important and feasible to implement. A consensus development process was used to generate, rank, and discuss solutions. Twenty-three health professionals participated in the consensus proce...

This study intends to investigate the mate selection criteria and weights of unmarried female junior high school teachers in Taiwan. This study used the Delphi method to clarify mate selection criteria. The primary assessment criteria included 4 items: social condition, personal condition, emotional condition, and family background. The secondary assessment criteria included 24 items. This stud...

This paper reports findings from practitioner-led research on engagement with families in the child protection system in Scotland. Engagement is here defined in a participative sense, to mean the involvement of family members in shaping social work processes. Key findings include the importance of workers building trusting relationships; the value of honest and clear communication, information,...

Pediatric obesity has become increasingly prevalent over the past 2-3 decades. Recently-published clinical practice guidelines and expert recommendations provide guidance for obesity treatment, but therapy is often complicated by a host of medical, behavioural, psychosocial, and interpersonal issues. We report the case of an 11-year-old obese girl and her family referred for weight management. ...