Japan’s strategy amid US–China confrontation

Pan-Canadian opioid strategy to be released amid brouhaha.

Confrontation and Ridicule

Ridicule can be used in order to create concurrence as well as to enhance antagonism. This paper deals with ridicule that is used by a critic when he is responding to a standpoint or to a reason advanced in support of a standpoint. Ridicule profits from humor’s good reputation, and correctly so, even when it is used in argumentative contexts. However, ridicule can be harmful to a discussion. Th...

Pappus-Desargues digraph confrontation

Like the Coxeter graph became reattached into the Klein graph in [3], the Levi graphs of the 93 and 103 self-dual configurations, known as the Pappus and Desargues (k-transitive) graphs P and D (where k = 3), also admit reattachments of the distance-(k − 1) graphs of half of their oriented shortest cycles via orientation assignments on their common (k−1)-arcs, concurrent for P and opposite for ...

Book Review Constitutional Confrontation

Much has been written about the flight of Hong Kong residents to various western countries in the past few years. The popular fear of political instability, which has caused this flight, stems from the anticipated transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China") in 1997. If present emigration figures' are used to predict the future...

Poverty amid plenty.

Clinical handoffs are tools aimed at bridging gaps that occur during transitions in care, whether across time (eg, shift changes) or across organisational boundaries (eg, the ward to the intensive care unit). They have long been viewed as potential threats to safety and are attracting increasing attention for several reasons. First, from a control theory point of view, handoffs are inherently h...