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Outpatient Requests, Initial Sessions and Attrition
(Sage, 1978)Treatment attrition in a psychiatric outpatient department was evaluated. Of eighty-two consecutive new patients, fifty-three (65%) showed up for a second appointment while twenty-nine (35%) failed to return. None of the ... -
The hysterical facade
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Drug treatment of depression. A classification system for agent selection
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1980)Depressive illness can be severe, debilitating, and life threatening, but it often responds well to medication. The appropriate agent and dosage depend not only on accurate diagnosis of the type of depression present but ... -
Reducing the Size of the Nondominated Set: Pruning by Clustering
(Computers and Operations Research, 1980)The multicriterion_ simplex methods of Evans and Steuer(!} and Yu and Zeleny[2) have encouraged model builders to consider matrix criteria. When conflicting objectives are simultaneously considered, there is no such thing ... -
Flexibility and Rigidity in Multicriterion Linear Programming
(Springer, 1980)One justification for modeling with multiobjective linear programming (MOLP) is its ability to generate unique managerial information. One drawback of MOLP is the unwieldy nondominated set which it presents to the decision ... -
Medical noncompliance
(1980)Increasingly recognized as a major medical health problem, non-compliant patient behavior remains on e of the least understood and most frustrating phenomena facing today's physicians. Although no single characteristic of ... -
Student evaluations of a required sex education course
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 1980)Medical student response to a required sex education course at the University of Texas Medical School is reported. The results suggest that the students have an objective awareness of sexuality as an integral part of ... -
Compound Lotteries; Call Option Spreads in Black-Scholes Markets
(Springer, 1981)From the earliest days of risky utility theory decision, theorists have elicited information from decision makers by analyzing their reaction to elementary lotteries, or gambles. The Purpose of the process was to define a ... -
SETTING COUNTRY LIMITS FOR INTERNATIONAL LENDING
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Management of a rare blood type: Oh"Bombay" in pregnancy
(The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1981)A rare blood type, Oh "Bombay," was observed in a 30-year-old Indian primigravida. The genetic mode of inheritance is discussed. The obstetric management, with anticipation for the need for blood transfusion, is outlined ... -
Banking in a Volatile World: Setting Country Lending Limits
(Springer, 1983)Banks often make decisions in an organizational framework that attempts to control repayment problems by setting loan limits for each country. A formal mechanism for setting those limits will be proposed. Our motivation ... -
A Multiobjective Expert System for Suppliers of Out-of-the-Money Options
(Springer, 1984)The proliferation of telecommunications and computing capability has sparked speculation about dispersing work. The electronic cottage industry approach has potential in the area of office and professional services. This ... -
Portfolio Selection to achieve a target beta
(AFCET, 1984)Suppose an investor wishes to construct a portfolio of size k securities from a population of n securities (k≤n) such that a particular portfolio or target beta (β p ) is achieved. Since β p is a random variable, there ... -
Jacques Bon-Homme and National Politics: Ethos and Audience in 17th- Century Political Pamphlets
(Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 1984)A number of fundamental problems remain in the way of providing a comprehensive analysis of pamphlets and pamphleteerng in Old Regime France. Our incomplete knowledge of the sizes of editions, the mechanisms of distribution, ... -
Typografische Monatsblätter 1987:3
(Lars Muller Publishers, 1987)Magazine cover for 1987 issue of Typografische Monatsblätter. -
Intervalling Effects in Hong Kong Stocks
(Wiley, 1987)This paper investigates the intervalling-thinness effect in the Hong Kong stock market and compares the results with previous studies of United States and French data. The approach follows the three pass technique of Cohen, ... -
Index Futures and the Implied Volatility of Options
(Review of Futures Markets, 1988)This paper examines the relation between the pricing of stock index futures contracts and the implied volatilities of index and individual equity options. For data from the 1986-1988 period, the difference between the ...