iolence is gendered: it is in considerable measure a problem and consequence of masculinity. Contemporary state interventions to control violence are no less gendered: structures of response, from arrest through imprisonment, glorify tough cops, celebrate adversarial relations, and construct a virtuous "protective" state by incarcerating or, in some countries, killing "the bad guys". What alter...

We consider a two-player bargaining model in which one or both players have reference-dependent preferences, but are otherwise perfectly rational. Our behavioural assumption is that players with reference-dependent preferences prefer impasse to consuming strictly less than their current reference points. Reference points adjust each period according to some exogenously specified law of motion. ...

The core of ontology is disagreement over what there is, over whether there exist numbers, events, sets, physical objects, fusions, past and future objects, and so on. Skeptics say this disagreement is merely verbal since apparently disagreeing ontologists use ‘exists’ in different ways. Each theorist is right given her own use of ‘exists’; there is nothing to fight over. On one meaning for ‘ex...

belief in the lack of authority of ‘a single report’ is one of the most basic doctrines of ibn idrīs in the principles of jurisprudence, and this same issue has caused his ideas and methods of jurisprudence to be different from those of other jurists, and even in some cases has led to irregularity and scarcity. he does not consider as authentic those traditions that have not reached frequency (...

introduction: this study aimed to investigate the association between the emotional intelligence (ei) and organizational culture of university staff due to different dimensions of ei and its effects on different areas such as job progress, job satisfaction, job environment and organizational performance. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study. it was done on 168 staff of isfa...