Feelings of guilt often occur when people are subjected to crime. In this study, is defined as a moral and emotional category, opposed the legal guilt. The aim study was investigate how crime victims related feelings in court process. Interviews with plaintiffs rape cases (10) have been compared interviews assault fraud order find out if there differences perceptions for each type analysed by d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats promised Thursday to speed an economic recovery package through Congress, but vowed to rearrange President Bush’s budget proposal to ben­ efit m iddle-income Americans, not the rich. “ Democrats w ill not obstruct, but we w ill try to improve the p re s id e n t’s p acka ge ,” sa id House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., as the Budget Committee began hearings...

This paper describes the development of a scalable process for people and machines working together to identify sections of text that reflect specific human values. A total of 2,005 sentences from 28 prepared testimonies presented before hearings on Net neutrality were manually annotated for one or more of ten human values using an annotation frame based on experience annotating similar content...

Drugs that flow from humans into the environment may include the lingering analgesic diclofenac, the long-lasting antiepileptic carbamazepine, the omnipresent antibiotic ciprofloxacin, and even seemingly mundane painkillers like ibuprofen, gemfibrozil, and naproxen, not to mention synthetic estrogens. The problem has led to government hearings at the state and federal levels and to scientific m...

DCI’s research abilities are highlighted by its extensive utility consulting experience, senior consultant qualifications, extensive database of utility best practices, analytical methodologies in support of strategic decision making, and support of utility companies through direct testimony in public utility service commission hearings. DCI’s consultants all have advanced degrees and include a...

We study a collective decision-making process in which people who are interested in an issue are invited to attend a meeting, and the policy chosen is a compromise among the preferences of those who show up. We show that in an equilibrium the number of attendees is small and their positions are extreme; in a wide range of circumstances the outcome is random. These characteristics of an equilibr...