More than 1 million children each year experience their parents' divorce. For these children and their parents, this process can be emotionally traumatic from the beginning of parental disagreement and rancor, through the divorce, and often for many years thereafter. Pediatricians are encouraged to be aware of behavioral changes in their patients that might be signals of family dysfunction so t...

This paper proposes a new theoretical model for the design of creativity-enhancing interfaces. The combination of user and content creation software is looked at as a creative system, and we tackle the question of how best to design the interface to utilise the abilities of both the computer and the brain. This model has been developed in the context of music technology, but may apply to any si...

small and medium enterprises (smes) are reckoned as the main player in domestic economic activities. this paper tries to contribute to the development and understanding of smes by encompassing social entrepreneurship as an empowering instrument. considering the latest thought for intellectual milieu, this paper discloses the buried interlocking principles for social entrepreneurship by islamic ...

The central problem for the linguistic theory, often referred to as Plato's problem, is how children are able to acquire language despite the impoverished nature of the linguistic data they are exposed to. The Principles and Parameters approach provides a viable solution to Plato's problem. The basic idea is that children are biologically endowed with a set of principles, which are invariant ac...

This paper presents a direct implementation of Government-Binding theory in a parser for German, which faithfully models the modular structure of the theory. The modular design yields a flexible environment, in which it is possible to define and test various versions of principles and parameters. The several modules of linguistic theory and the parser proper are interleaved in parallel fashion ...

This research-in-progress paper deals with service modularization of complex services. The successful creation of powerful modules allow leveraging modularization benefits such as reuse, faster development, module-wide innovation, and rapid reconfiguration. Consequently, service provider efficiencies as well as user centricity can be realized. Therefore, the principles of modularization, i.e. c...

Introduction.......................................................................................... 52 I. Frontal Lobe Brain Dysfunction (“FLD”) and Criminality......... 54 A. Causes and Symptoms of FLD................................................ 57 B. The Role of FLD in Criminal Behavior ................................. 67 II. Admissibility of FLD Evidence.................................

While various liability rules of tort law provide efficient incentives to invest, breach remedies of contract law are claimed to be distortive. Since, at least in Germany, obligations law provides general rules for both contractual and tort relationships such discrepancy seems puzzling. The paper identifies a saddle point property as the driving force behind most efficiency results and it estab...

We ® rst consider the estimation of the ® nite rate of population increase or population growth rate, k i , using capturerecapture data from open populations. We review estimation and modelling of k i under three main approaches to modelling openpopulation data: the classic approach of Jolly (1965) and Seber (1965), the superpopulation approach of Crosbie & Manly (1985) and Schwarz & Arnason (1...

some moral propositions are self-evident and are used as basis for justifying theoretical ones in ethics. while this view has long been raised in islamic thought and explained in more detail by contemporary philosophers, the sort of their being self-evident is less explained and sometimes is subject to disagreement. the authors of the present article hold that at least two propositions of “just...