daniels, porteny and urrutia et al make a good case for the idea that that public decisions ought to be made not only “in the light of” evidence but also “on the basis of” budget impact, financial protection and equity. health technology assessment (hta) should, they say, be accordingly expanded to consider matters additional to safety and cost-effectiveness. they also complain that most hta re...

Abstract. This article examines conflict of laws issues related to issue and circulation international bonds at capital markets. It covers characteristic features as financial instruments used for raising from sophisticated investors which determine, in particular, peculiarities solving issues. These include determination the law applicable formal essential validity an bond, rights liabilities ...

Motivated by considerations in the foundations of quantum mechanics and inspired by the literature on vague predicates, we introduce the concept of an opaque predicate. While in the case of vague predicates there is a kind of indeterminacy with respect to the predicate, in the sense that the vagueness concerns whether a well-determined object satisfies it or not, in the case of opaque predicate...

Despite renewed interest in roles played by Christianity in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB), few scholars have discussed her treatment of the body of Christ—understood as both the figure of Christ and his body of followers—in her antislavery poem, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”. This article argues that “The Runaway Slave” reworks portrayals of the body of Christ in trans...

Environmental sustainability is one of the most important issues in the modern world. This paper argues that the information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) profession needs to put more emphasis on this topic. It is no longer adequate to address the issue only by recycling used IT equipments. The issue needs to be addressed from an entirely systems development lifecycle perspective...

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems are basically Process Control Systems, designed to automate systems such as traffic control, power grid management, waste processing etc. Conventionally, SCADA is connected only in a limited private network because SCADA is considered a critical infrastructure, and connecting to the internet may put the society on jeopardy, SCADA operators hold b...

Verbal data is the primary focus for analysis in the prevalent Usability evaluations like in ‘Think Aloud Method’. This study involves 18 cross cultural TA tests and it was found that users use gestures profoundly to communicate their mental activities. It was observed that hand gestures are attempts to communicate abstract feelings as well as to quantify, to simplify a complex expression & ref...