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When punitive damage awards create publicity, this could affect the behavior of uncompensated victims, which has implications for the optimal punitive damage multiplier. A new adjusted multiplier is derived that incorporates publicity into the analytical framework. Assuming that all victims receive uniform punitive awards, the result is a lower punitive multiplier relative to the standard resul...

THE 1997 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society’s Awards were presented by the IEEE President Charles Alexander, GRS-Society President Martti Hallikainen, and GRS-Society Vice-President Nahid Khazenie on August 5, 1997, at the Awards Luncheon during IGARSS’97 in Singapore. The call for nomination for the GRS-S Distinguished Achievement Award is published in the GRS-S Newsletter. Nominations...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary disciplines, but outcomes associated with these awards have not been evaluated to date. NIH's Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet) is one of the few initiatives that has used this award mechanism...

In response to concerns that jury awards in tort cases are excessive and unpredictable, nearly every state legislature has enacted some version of tort reform that is intended to curb extravagant damage awards. One of the most important and controversial reforms involves capping (or limiting) the maximum punitive damage award. We conducted a jury analogue study to assess the impact of this refo...

BACKGROUND Media awards to encourage responsible reporting of suicide have been introduced in several countries, including Australia, Belgium and Denmark. AIMS This study aimed to examine the experiences of Australian, Belgian and Danish award recipients in preparing stories on suicide, and consider the impacts of the awards for these recipients and for media professionals more broadly. MET...

Awards in the form of orders, decorations, prizes, and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit, and profit-oriented firms. This paper argues that awards present a unique combination of different stimuli and that they are distinct and unlike other monetary and non-monetary rewards. Despite their relevance in all areas of life awards have not recei...

In response to concerns that jury awards in tort cases are excessive and unpredictable, nearly every state legislature has enacted some version of tort reform that is intended to curb extravagant damage awards. One of the most important and controversial reforms involves capping (or limiting) the maximum punitive damage award. We conducted a jury analogue study to assess the impact of this refo...

Welcome to the latest of our Eberhard F. Mammen award announcements. As noted previously,1–3 Thieme, the publisher of Seminars in Thrombosis & Hemostasis, has created the Eberhard F.MammenExcellence inThrombosis andHemostasis Awards in honor of Eberhard Mammen (►Fig. 1) and in recognition of his contribution to this field and to the journal that he both founded and steered for over three decade...