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Men and women whose daily work is not in the field of Mental Health are looking to the forthcoming International Congress* with increasingly hopeful interest. Why is this and how far are they justified ? Firstly, the very concept of Mental Health represents to the layman something constructive. Beset by specialists, bureaucrats and planners, all emitting their own jargon, he longs to hear someo...

Our evaluative study, which is reported here, is linked with a civics project initiated by the Dutch National Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO) during the 1980s. The project focused on the education of twelve-to sixteen-year-old students at the lowersecondary level and was executed at request of the Dutch National Association for Social Studies Teachers. At that time, there was much id...

Physical activity (PA) during physical education is important for health purposes and for developing physical fitness and movement skills. To examine PA levels and how PA was influenced by environmental and instructor-related characteristics, we assessed children’s activity during 368 lessons taught by 105 physical education specialists in 42 randomly selected schools in Hong Kong. Trained obse...

Cortical computations are critically dependent on GABA-releasing neurons for dynamically balancing excitation with inhibition that is proportional to the overall level of activity. Although it is widely accepted that there are multiple types of interneurons, defining their identities based on qualitative descriptions of morphological, molecular and physiological features has failed to produce a...

Economists agree that accounting specialists are helpful in avoiding taxes. We argue that such help can often be called sophisticated evasion. We analyze it in a game of incomplete information played by tax authority, corporate taxpayers and accounting specialist. When sophisticated evasion is very common, marginal changes in enforcement are not e¤ective, so radical measures are needed for impr...

The existence of specialty prescribers is challenging. Multiple prescribers have been identified as a risk factor for treatment with medications considered to be “inappropriate.” The use of “inappropriate” medications, in turn, has been associated with adverse outcomes such as hospitalization and death. In my experience, specialty prescribed medications include muscle relaxants for spasticity i...

I develop an agency model of job assignments where jobs differ based on the breadth of tasks. A tradeoff between task complementarities and relative abilities of workers results in those with balanced skills being assigned to multi-task jobs. The same tradeoff between complementarities and relative abilities also influences incentives to sort privately informed workers to jobs. I then draw on a...