Rooted in Canada’s history as a British colony, the Criminal Code defence to “reasonable corrective force” remains force today. In this article, I trace of law, describe various attempts made remove it, and present many recommendations calls for repeal issued over recent decades. While Canada has stood still, 65 countries have removed their legal defences prohibited all corporal punishment chil...

Constraint programming is a declarative programming paradigm exploiting techniques stemming from research on combinatorial problems in computer vision, and robot planning. The paradigm comes close to the dream that users only need to simply state a problem and the computer will solve it, as underlined in the seminal 1996 article In Pursuit of the Holy Grail by Eugene Freuder. The idea is that p...

connector proteins have been discovered that associate Elaine Fuchs* and Yanmin Yang with multiple cytoskeletal networks, integrating old Howard Hughes Medical Institute functions and creating new ones. As the roles of these Department of Molecular Genetics connectors unravel, it has become increasingly clear and Cell Biology that they are tailored to suit the tissue-specific needs The Universi...

In the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems based on driverless vehicles, one important issue is the passing of a crossroads. This paper presents a supervised reservation system. Extending previous works in this direction, the proposed algorithm determines trajectories and speeds for all the vehicles willing to pass the intersection. The work is separated into tasks shared between the ...

Dental education has undergone significant curriculum reform in response to the 1995 Institute of Medicine report Dental Education at the Crossroads and the series of white papers from the American Dental Education Association Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (ADEA CCI) first published in the Journal of Dental Education and subsequently collected in a volume titled Beyond...

There is no gainsaying that US–China relations are at a crossroads with the transition of power from Donald Trump to Joseph Biden beginning this year. Indeed, over past four years und...

The value of complexity science and related approaches in policy evaluation have been widely discussed over the last 20 years, not least this journal. We are now at a crossroads; Special Issue argues that use could deepen broaden rendering evaluations more practical rigorous. risk is drive to better evaluate policies from perspective falter. This special issue culmination 4 years’ work crossroa...