This paper surveys the theoretical literature in which people are modeled as taking other people’s payoffs into account either because this affects their utility directly or because they wish to impress others with their social-mindedness. Key experimental results that bear on the relevance of these theories are discussed as well. Five types of models are considered. In the first, the utility o...

A medical student perspective on the role of core competencies in undergraduate medical education in light of medical education reform associated with recent Flexner II.

We study, using ADHM construction, instanton effects in an N = 2 superconformal Sp(N) gauge theory, arising as effective field theory on a system of N D-3-branes near an orientifold 7-plane and 8 D-7-branes in type I’ string theory. We work out the measure for the collective coordinates of multi-instantons in the gauge theory and compare with the measure for the collective coordinates of (−1)-b...

BACKGROUND In Germany, family physicians (FPs) are increasingly needed to participate in undergraduate medical education. Knowledge of FPs' motivation to teach medical students in their practices is lacking. PURPOSE To describe a novel questionnaire that assesses the motivation of FPs to teach undergraduates in their practices and to show the results of a subsequent survey using this instrume...

In this paper a logic of capabilities is introduced. We start by defining a language in which not only knowledge and actions of a set of agents can be expressed but also their abilities. To formalize the planning of the agents a Can-predicate and a Cannotpredicate are used. The former indicates that an agent knows that he can achieve a given goal by performing a given action, the latter indicat...