Arsehole aristocracy (or: Montesquieu on honour, revisited)

Montesquieu on Commerce, Conquest, War, and Peace

n the history of liberalism, Montesquieu, who died two hundred and fifty years ago, is an iconic figure. Montesquieu is cited as the source of the idea of checks and balances, or separation of powers, and thus as an intellectual inspiration of the American founding. Among liberal internationalists, Montesquieu is known above all for the notion that international trade leads to peace among natio...

Honour to Whom Honour Is Due

cal College who has received the title of Kui Bahadur from Government, and we are fully convinced that these gentlemen well deserve the distinctions conferred on them. Nevertheless, it strikes us as somewhat remarkable, that of all the professors attached to the College, only one (Dr. Fayrer) has received any mark of distinction from the Government. This remark applies not only to the medical o...

Honour and / or / as Passion : Historical trajectories of legal defenses

Hypodermoclysis or subcutaneous infusion revisited.

AIM OF STUDY To review the use of hypodermoclysis in a local Hospice. METHOD A review of all hypodermoclysis carried out over a six-month period was conducted. Special attention was paid to the reason for starting and stopping the drip, duration of the drip, complications, the type and amount of solution infused. RESULTS Fifty-one (19%) out of 266 patients received hypodermoclysis during th...

QUICKSELECT Revisited

We give an overview of the running time analysis of the random divide-and-conquer algorithm FIND or QUICKSELECT. The results concern moments, distribution of FIND’s running time, the limiting distribution, a stochastic bound and the key: a stochastic fixed point equation.