to laymen. They deal with emotional reactions to frustration and failure, to acute illness, to fertility and sterility, to divorce, and to death and suicide. The fourth and seventh of the above, by Dr. Leo Bartemeier and Dr. Jules Masserman respectively, are thought provoking and profound, and Dr. Spiegler's account of reactions to catastrophe helpful to the individual and perhaps to the intern...

We introduce and analyze “multistage situations”, which generalize “multistage games” (which, in turn, generalize “repeated games”). One reason for this generalization is to avoid the perhaps unrealistic constraint inherent to noncooperative games that the set of strategy tuples must be a Cartesian product of the strategy sets of the players. Another reason is that in most economic and social a...

The beliefs of the agents in a multi-agent system have been formally modelled in the last decades using doxastic logics. The possible worlds model and its associated Kripke semantics provide an intuitive semantics for these logics, but they commit us to model agents that are logically omniscient. We propose a way of avoiding this problem, using a new kind of entities called subjective situation...

The aim of the paper is to reconsider Habermas’ discourse approach in terms its usefulness realm public healthcare where, on a microscale, intersubjective communicative situations arise between defined participants, i.e., patients and providers, patients’ family members, further eligible contributors patient-related decision making. A need for more “communicative interaction,” explicative pract...

after 50 years of  hegemony of  the  mubarak authoritarian discourse in egypt, the people of this country were able to challenge the hegemony of authoritarian discourse. with the fall of the mubarak regime, the muslim brotherhood seized power. a year after  that muslim brotherhood coming to power, the group, due  to the  incompetence in accordance with the political and economic conditions, lac...