Abstract Entrepreneurship has been connected to several socio-economic issues. However, despite the growing conjectures, links with democracy have yet be substantiated. By using a country-level panel dataset over 1972–2010 period, we find evidence that is conducive entrepreneurship. We shed light on intensity and multidimensionality of by showing promotion free social interchange direct involve...

The current study examined predictors of treatment use among 56 foster mothers who participated in an attachment-based intervention program for foster infants. Foster mothers' levels of treatment use were coded at early, middle, and late phases of the intervention program. Foster mothers' states of mind with regard to attachment predicted their understanding of the intervention session concepts...

We consider several stochastic process methods for performing canonical correlation analysis (CCA). The first uses a Gaussian Process formulation of regression in which we use the current projection of one data set as the target for the other and then repeat in the opposite direction. The second uses a method which relies on probabilistically sphering the data, concatenating the two streams and...

High-quality foster placements can help a foster-child to thrive and can counter some of the risk factors normally associated with being a foster-child. Unfortunately, demand for foster-carers has been outstripping supply. The present study sought to identify the characteristics of people who have high potential to become a foster-carer. A large, representative sample from the general populatio...