The problem of identifying a partially known linear, time invariant system is considered where the unknowness is that associated with a limited number of physical components comprising the system or with physical parameters affecting parc of the system. This unknowness translates to structural conditions on the system transfer function or a state variable representation of the system, and the a...

The Baby Doe Rules [3] represent the first attempt by the US government to directly intervene in treatment options for neonates born with severe congenital defects. The name of the rule comes from the controversial 1982 case of a Bloomington, Indiana, infant Baby Doe, a name coined by the media. The Baby Doe Rules [3] mandate that, as a requirement for federal funding, hospitals and physicians ...

When people make donations to privately provided public goods, such as charity, there may be many factors infiuencing their decisions other than altruism. As Olson (1965) noted, 'people are sometimes motivated by a desire to win prestige, respect, friendship, and other social and psychological objectives' (p. 60) or as Becker (1974) observed, 'apparent "charitable" behavior can also be motivate...

A domain average engineered sample of a multidomain ferroic consists of a very large number of crystalline domains, representing m domain states. m is less than the theoretically allowed maximum number n of domain states. The symmetry of such an engineered sample is shown to be the symmetry of a composite and consequently the concept of latent symmetry, which has explained unexpected symmetries...

When a child is hospitalized on a psychiatric unit, the parents are crucial to the evaluation and treatment of that child. While the importance of parents to their child's inpatient treatment may seem obvious, it is a topic which has been surprisingly rare in recent literature, and certainly warrants further empirical study (Blotcky et al., 1984). During the last decade, I have been a social wo...

The problem of understanding the conditions under which cooperation or altruism can be sustained between interacting selfish entities is a fundamental issue in both biology and the social sciences. In recent years, there has been an explosion of work utilising agent-based computer simulation to explore novel mechanisms for cooperation. This surge was probably kick-started by the famous “compute...

The Baby Doe Rules [3] represent the first attempt by the US government to directly intervene in treatment options for neonates born with severe congenital defects. The name of the rule comes from the controversial 1982 case of a Bloomington, Indiana, infant Baby Doe, a name coined by the media. The Baby Doe Rules [3] mandate that, as a requirement for federal funding, hospitals and physicians ...