T, .he Proctor Medal for 1962 is to be awarded to Dr. Kenneth N. Ogle. It is my privilege to join you in honoring him on this occasion and to introduce him to you. He does not need an introduction to most of you any more than he needs still another honor, yet, because he is a highly regarded friend, I am happy to participate. He was born in Colorado, attended the public school and college at Co...

s the common and crucial elements from the mass of complex and detailed circumstances surrounding the phenomena to be explained and permits valid prediction on the basis of them alone.” 8 This is why assumptions of a theory must be unrealistic, and further, the more unrealistic the assumption set the better, ceteris paribus. In an attempt to increase the fruitfulness of the theory, one must red...

Comparative economists have gradually concluded that success or failure in transition to democratic capitalism is a matter of institutions, not geography or leadership or outside assistance. However, why do some countries exhibit pro-growth institutions, with little corruption or rent seeking? And how can we explain the relative successes of very different forms of capitalism, such as the USA, ...

This is a lively presentation of material which is a must for those working in research on glaucoma. It presents a picture of the frontier of the work by the pioneers who are exploring it. Attention is drawn to the difficulties of fixation of eyes, the variations in interpretation of normal eyes, and how a decision is reached as to what is normal and what is artefact. Against this background, t...

this article aims to sociological explain of fear of crime in the province of hamedan. at the regional level the cities are the unit of analysis and we have tried to explain the fear of crime in these cities with emphasis on the level of development. independent variables included in the micro-level social disorganization, social capital and social control. the population consists of all heads ...

Müller cells (Figs. 1.17c, d, 2.1, 2.5, 2.9, 2.13, and 2.31) are radial glial cells that reside in a part of the adult CNS. As such, they share the basic bipolar morphology of radial glial cells (Figs. 1.1 and 1.4) and possess the complete set of principal glial cell processes/contact types (Fig. 1.3) (Reichenbach, 1989b). Originating from soma which generally is located in the inner nuclear la...

    Over the past few decades, the family affected by the processes, and consequences of modernization has experienced profound changes in both objective-structural and semantic-subjective levels. The family has faced new issues, some of which represent progress and welfare, and some suggest traumatic social issues which reduce the pace of development in the society as hindering factors. Thus, ...

It is generally believed that there are many benefits to having a positive view of the self. Those who have high self-esteem are presumed to be psychologically happy and healthy (Branden, 1994; Taylor & Brown, 1988), whereas those with low self-esteem are believed to be psychologically distressed and perhaps even depressed (Tennen & Affleck, 1993). Having high self-esteem apparently provides be...