Accepting a contract with a high performance sensitivity is normally interpreted as a signal of high ability. However, an extremely high self-assessment may be an incompetent forecast by an incompetent worker. The authors do not want a portfolio manager who expects nearly riskfree returns of 50%/year! We study a model in which optimistic forecasters have low ability. In one type of equilibrium,...

A successful design accounts for the structure of the problem it is aimed at solving. When it is a human-directed design, this includes the expectations of its users. How do we arrive at such a design? One approach starts from first principles (e.g., simplicity, unity, symmetry, balance) to evaluate the quality of proposed designs. Here, we introduce design from zeroth principles, a form of hum...

Psychological Conditions of Peace. By William Brown, D.M.(Oxon), D.Sc.(Lond.),F.R.C.P. A. & C. Black Ltd. 7s. 6d. net. This is a second and enlarged edition of the author's War and Peace which increases the book's extent by one-half. The general thesis adopted is that " the problem of war and peace is one which needs to be treated constructively with an energy and determination as free as possi...

I was very much interested in the article by Rom and Ansbacher entitled "An Adlerian Case or a Character by Sartre?" (4) not only because of its intrinsic value but also because I had myself analyzed the hero of Sartre's story "Erostratus" (5, pp. 41-58) and others of this author's characters from the angle of Adler's Individual Psychology some I 5 years ago (6, 7). Before quoting from this ana...

There is significant evidence that traditional university presses are continuing to face financial crises. Outlets for research monographs are drying up, print runs are being reduced and monograph costs are increasing. The combination of the digital networked environment and openarchive initiatives may, however, provide the opportunity, through institutional repositories, to rethink the role an...

UNLABELLED The phenomenon of Late-Onset Unilateral Auditory Deprivation was first reported in 1984. However, a high number of unilateral hearing aid fittings are still carried out in cases of bilateral hearing loss, justified by non-auditory factors such as cost, vanity, misinformation and public health policies. OBJECTIVE To carry out behavioral and electrophysiological assessment of the aud...

It has been known that the fi rst reference of the word Bioethics in the twentieth century was due to German theologist Fritz Jahr in 1927. In that surprising paper Jahr, a protestant Lutheran university professor, proposes humble catholic deacon, Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), as the fi rst discoverer of Bioethics in Western Civilization. At the same time, Jahr quotes K.C.F Krause, a Mas...

Background: The key reason for failure of an endodontic treatment is incomplete debridement and sterilization because of complex root canal system anatomy which makes elimination of micro-organisms difficult. In spite of the chemical and mechanical debridement of root canals, studies have reported that some microbes like Enterococcus faecalis thrive in periapical lesions, triggering a failure o...

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection . . . . . The temper by which right taste is formed is characteristically patient. I t dwells upon what is submitted to it. I t does not trample upon it--lest it should be pearls, even though it look like husks. I t is good gr...

In this Article I discuss the process of constitution-making at the Federal Convention in Philadelphia' and at the Assemblee Constituante in Paris from 1789 to 1791.2 In doing so, I shall be guided by three objectives. In increasing order of abstraction and, I hope, of competence, they are: historical, sociological and conceptual. First, the comparison between the two eighteenth-century assembl...