* Financial support provided by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the project “Intertemporal Price Formation in the Grocery-retailing Sector: Theory and Empirical Tests” (He 1419/8-1) is gratefully acknowledged. This project made it possible to use the scanner dataset on which the empirical analysis is based. Thanks are due to seminar participants in the Institute of Agricultural Policy and Ma...

Psychology has recently identified itself as a health care profession and codified this change in the bylaws of the American Psychological Association. Although psychologists make a number of contributions to the nation's health--and mental health--the most identifiable activity focuses on treating physical or psychological pathology with psychological interventions. Recently, health care polic...

This double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of fennel seed oil emulsion in infantile colic. The results showed that the colic of 65% of the infants in the treatment group was eliminated compared with 23.7% in the control group; this difference was considered statistically significant. The study indicates that fennel seed oil emulsion is superior to placeb...

Psychological or emotional maltreatment of children may be the most challenging and prevalent form of child abuse and neglect. Caregiver behaviors include acts of omission (ignoring need for social interactions) or commission (spurning, terrorizing); may be verbal or nonverbal, active or passive, and with or without intent to harm; and negatively affect the child's cognitive, social, emotional,...