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Investors walk a tricky tightrope of risk and performance. Those who choose too little risk may fail to reach their goal. Those who choose too
much may lose their balance, with potentially disastrous results. How
should investors decide what level…

ATTEMPTS TO INTEGRATE diverse approaches to psychotherapy have captured the imagination of mental health professionals for well over half a century. For example, Thomas French stood before the 1932 meeting
of the American Psychiatric Association and…

IT CAN BE SAID THAT MODERN CONSTRUCTION METHODS OWE THEIR SUPREMACY TO THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST AND AN EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE ASSUMPTION FOLLOW THAT THE MISTAKES OF THE PRESENT WILL BE OF SIMILAR IF NOT GREATER ASSISTANCE TO THE BUILER OF THE FUTURE.

The topic of emotion regulation has now come into its own. Books, articles, and conferences related to emotion regulation seem to be everywhere. This growing interest is reflected in citation trends. As shown in Figure P.1, until the early 1990s,…

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permission, and sources are indicated. A wide variety of references are listed. Reasonable efforts have been made to…

From a situation nearly 30 years ago when it was virtually unknown, Islamic banking has
expanded to become a distinctive and fast growing segment of the international banking
and capital markets. There are well over 200 Islamic banks operating in…

Psychology at the beginning of the twenty-first century has become a highly diverse field of scientific study and applied technology. Psychologists commonly regard their discipline as the science of behavior, and the American Psychological…

Much of contemporary public finance can be described as being either
Wicksellian or Edgeworthian in character. In the former, fiscal phenomena
arise
through
complex
processes
of
exchange;
in the
latter,
they
arise
through acts of choice…