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Historically, developmental investigators have tended to assess phenomena of interest in one way at one age in one culture. In this essay, I explore some rationales and advantages for a multiculture, multiage, multimethod science.

Despite the efforts made by the mass media, only modest progress has been made in affecting human behavior through information about science. More research is needed, especially in communicating new concepts and ideas.

by Alvaro Pôrto Moitinho. The author describes how public administration is taught in the several faculties of economic science. There is, however, a strong trend in favour of separate faculties of public administration.

This target article has three parts. The first briefly reviews the thinking about nonhuman animals' sentience in the Western canon: what we might know about their capacity for feeling, leading up to Bentham's famous question "can they suffer?" The second part sketches the modern development of animal welfare science and the role that animal-sentience considerations have played therein. The third part describes the launching, by Compassion in World Farming, of efforts to incorporate animal sentience language into public policy and regulations concerning human treatment of animals.

This target article has three parts. The first briefly reviews the thinking about nonhuman animals' sentience in the Western canon: what we might know about their capacity for feeling, leading up to Bentham's famous question "can they suffer?" The second part sketches the modern development of animal welfare science and the role that animal-sentience considerations have played therein. The third part describes the launching, by Compassion in World Farming, of efforts to incorporate animal sentience language into public policy and regulations concerning human treatment of animals.