State Consumer Protection Acts (CPAs) were designed to supplement the Federal Trade Commission’s mission of protecting consumers and are often referred to as “little-FTC Acts.” There is growing concern that enforcement under these acts is not only qualitatively different than FTC enforcement, but may be counterproductive for consumers. This article examines a sample of CPA claims and compares t...

The present experiment was designed to establish the effects of acts of kindness and acts of novelty on life satisfaction. Participants aged 18-60 took part on a voluntary basis. They were randomly assigned to perform either acts of kindness, acts of novelty, or no acts on a daily basis for 10 days. Their life satisfaction was measured before and after the 10-day experiment. As expected, perfor...

human free acts have always been one of most difficult but important issues in philosophical debates. in this paper, i will try to provide an interpretation of these acts and argue for human free will and freedom. to this end, i will first, disucss the distinction of necessary acts from free acts, and then will argue for the free will, and its relation to free acts and freedom. finally, some co...

laan in (ph.d thesis, tartu. 1999) introduced the principal weak form of condition $(p)$ as condition $(pwp)$ and gave some characterization of monoids by this condition of their acts. in this paper first we introduce condition (g-pwp), a generalization of condition $(pwp)$ of acts over monoids and then will give a characterization of monoids when all right acts satisfy this condition. we also ...