As the World Summit on Sustainable Development approaches, it is timely to assess our actions on behalf of a more ecologically viable world and the barriers that remain to our realization of this goal. Globalization and sustainable development have emerged as key discourses to evaluate our social and environmental prospects. On the critical issue of limiting trade and economic growth, we find t...

Of all the attorneys and judges who participated in the long and tortured litigation over the status of Dred Scott and his family, the performance of Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis is the most lavishly praised by most modern commentators. In part, this high esteem reflects a strong commitment to the substantive view that Congress had the power to prohibit slavery in the territories. But, unlik...

the foundamental question of this paper is whether in the iranian and islamic civilization has the concept of technology been raised and discussed or not? the response of this research is positive and it is shown that farabi has introduced a deep argument about technology for the first time. in this paper, the definitions of technology are given and the relationship of science and technology is...

EU institutions and member governments are committed to realising judicial cooperation as part of a strategy to guarantee and sustain security in the EU: the freedom, security and justice agenda. The three elements clash both in terms of their prioritisation, their mutual compatibility and their feasibility. The phrase judicial cooperation evokes ideals of value-free, neutral cooperation design...

PURPOSE To determine the prevalence of calibration errors in Goldmann applanation tonometers at Farabi Eye Hospital. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed on all tonometers in use at Farabi Eye Hospital. All Haag-Streit Goldmann applanation tonometers were checked according to the manufacturer's method by two independent observers and by a third observer in case of mismatched resul...