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Variance in the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised Short Form's (EPQ-RS) Neuroticism scale is divisible into a general factor (Neuroticism) and two special factors (Anxious-Tense and Worried-Vulnerable), and although all three factors are associated with poorer mental health, their associations with physical health differ: the general Neuroticism factor was associated with poorer health, the association between the Anxious-Tense factor and health was mixed, and the Worried-Vulnerable factor was associated with better health. One unanswered question is how these factors map onto the domains of the Five-Factor Model of personality, and these domains' lower-order facets? I addressed this question by collecting data from 230 first year psychology undergraduates. These participants completed the 12-item EPQ-RS Neuroticism scale and the 30-item short form version of the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2-S). The general Neuroticism factor was associated positively with higher Neuroticism and its facets of Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional volatility. This factor was also associated negatively with Extraversion and its facet Energy level, Agreeableness and its facet Trust, and with Conscientiousness. The Anxious-Tense factor was associated positively with Neuroticism and its facet Anxiety, and negatively with Extraversion and its facet Assertiveness. The Worried-Vulnerable factor was associated positively only with Neuroticism and its facet Anxiety. Future epidemiological studies should be cautious when interpreting the effects of Neuroticism when it is measured using the EPQ-RS and should seek to replicate the present findings in larger, representative samples, and with comprehensive measures of the Five-Factor Model, such as the NEO Inventories.

Petrinovich's target article focused on how behavioral science is done, including how it is often done wrong, and how it should be done. I identify another malign influence on behavioral science, which, so far as I know, has, until now, been ignored (I would be happy to be shown that I am wrong on this). To wit, the way that Introductions to papers are written creates a niche that can be exploited for the purposes of promoting one's work to obtain resources or status, or for self-aggrandizement. I offer a few, probably wrongheaded, suggestions for ending this practice.

This article sketches a theoretical framework and research agenda for what is labeled as "Comparative Democratic Theory." It is introduced as an approach to democratic theory which is informed by conceptual and methodological debates from "Comparative Political Theory" (CPT) as well as from insights from a global history of democratic thought. The inclusion of CPT perspectives into democratic theory is motivated by what is diagnosed as a conceptual blindness in Western democratic theory. When following this approach, however, the two extremes of unjustified universalism and normatively problematic relativism both must be avoided. To do so, a mode of sound abstraction is proposed, using the term "constellation," and a discussion of aims and benefits of Comparative Democratic Theory is presented.

Case C-255/09 Commission v PortugalThe Portuguese Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 49 EC (Article 56 TFEU) by making no provision for reimbursement of non-hospital medical care provided in another Member State which does not involve the use of major and costly equipment exhaustively listed in the national legislation, other than in the circumstances specified in Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 […] or, to the extent that Decree-Law No 177/92 allows reimbursement in respect of such care, by making such reimbursement subject to prior authorization (official headnote).

Parlamente verlieren zweifellos an Bedeutung. Der Bedeutungsverlust ist allerdings nicht eine Folge der Tatsache, dass sie innerhalb eines politischen Systems relativen Einfluss gegenüber anderen Institutionen oder Akteuren einbüßen müssten, sondern es geschieht vor dem Hintergrund zweier größerer Entwicklungen, die Parlamente selbst nicht verhindern können. Die eine wird als Denationalisierung oder Globalisierung bezeichnet. Die zweite Tendenz ist politiksoziologisch begründet und liegt in der zunehmenden Komplexität gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation. Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie Parlamente unter diesen neuen Bedingungen begründet werden können

Researchers often seek to understand how organizations make decisions. To obtain data about these organization-level issues, they traditionally have interviewed one or two key persons in the organizations. Information obtained in this manner, however, is subject to several sources of bias. In this article, an analytical technique is reviewed that allows the researcher to decompose these informant reports into their respective trait, informant bias, and measure-specificity components, using LISREL An illustration of the technique, based on a survey of police executives, is provided

Until now, the image of the Amazons that prevailed in classical antiquity has been predominantly interpreted within the framework of gender discourse. However, Amazons have been paradigmatic in all literary and pictorial genres and through all epochs of antiquity as representatives of various contrast in myth and history, including the familiar and alien, self and other, as well as settled and nomadic. As such, they are a part of very generalized alternative worlds in which constructions of the self and images of the other are co-mingled.