We surveyed 110 country churches in south-western Sweden for presence of brown long-eared bats Plecotus auritus in summer 2016 by visual inspection and/or evening emergence counts. Each church was also classified according to the presence and amount of aesthetic directional lights (flood-lights) aimed on its walls and tower from the outside. Sixty-one of the churches had previously been surveye...

In this regard, the veil has become a very controversial issue in Islam. Some Muslims regard it as command of Allah contained Qur'an, while other and non-Muslims, especially Westerners, is identified clothing that comes from Arab culture, many people assume wearing judged excessive who wear are considered to shut themselves off social interaction, feared there will be misuse for bad interests. ...

As recently as 1937, Horace C. Pitkin in an article in the "Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery" wrote: "Manipulative surgery is a therapeutic waif of lowly origin whose infancy and childhood have been shielded from the light of reason by a congenital veil of empiricism and quackery." Yet in spite of such hereditary handicaps, it continues to thrive wonderfully; and perhaps in no better field tha...

Harris levels two main criticisms against our original defence ofQALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years). First, he rejects the assumiption implicit in the QALY approach that not all lives are of equal value. Second, he rejects our appeal to Rawls's veil of ignorance test in support of the QALY method. In the present article we defend QALYs against Harris's criticisms. We argue that some of the con...

All popular web browsers offer a “private browsing mode.” After a private session terminates, the browser is supposed to remove client-side evidence that the session occurred. Unfortunately, browsers still leak information through the file system, the browser cache, the DNS cache, and on-disk reflections of RAM such as the swap file. Veil is a new deployment framework that allows web developers...

Toxicity of some legally sold alcoholic beverages has contributed to enhanced mortality in Russia since 1990. Widespread drunkenness during the early 1990s facilitated privatization of economy: workers and some intelligentsia did not oppose privatizations because of drunkenness and involvement in illegal activities. Apparently, alcohol consumption and heavy binge drinking have been decreasing i...

A. THE THRESHOLD QUESTION OF OVERLAP................................................................ 73 B. A TWO-TIERED REGIME........................................................................................... 74 1. TIER 1: BEHIND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE ............................................................ 74 2. TIER 2: BEYOND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE....................................