Sexual Predator Law or Preventive Detention? Call It for What It Is

Youth violence? Let's call it what it is.

he headline re a d s , “ S chool Ya rd Assassins Gun Down 13 in Littleton, Colorado.” And everyone asks, “What turns kids into killers?” This is a compelling question. But it is the wrong question. Who are these kids? A “14-year-old shooter” in Paducah. Two “middle-school youth” in Jonesboro. An “expelled student” in Springfield. An “honor student” in Fayetteville. A “sophomore” in Pearl. These...

SOAP: What Is It and What Is It Good For?

Patrick Thompson is Director of Architecture at Rogue Wave Software, where he has been involved with SOAP bridging products and in exploring the uses of SOAP and XML protocols for the past year and a half. He is on the W3C XML Protocols working group and is involved in the OMG ́s CORBA/SOAP mapping work. He regularly speaks at industry conferences and is coauthor of the popular book The Elements...

health communication what it is and what is not

What you see is what you think--or is it?

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Medical Errors Disclosure: Is It Good or Bad?

Background: In the treatment and health process, there are a lot of dangers to patients, and the increased number of medical errors is one of the most important circumstances of this process. Objective: The present research purposed to decrease medical errors through disclosure of them in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. M...