Assessment of exposure to airborne endotoxins has been studied for several years, especially in occupational environments, but a large number of procedures are used for sampling and analysis. This lack of standardization makes it very difficult to compare results and set internationally accepted threshold limit values (TLVs) or occupational exposure limits (OELs) for endotoxin exposure. This pa...

this paper investigates the possibility of attending to iran’s constitutional shi’i jurisprudence as a perspective for approaching toward deliberative democracy. it claims there is an epistemological potentiality where it is possible to think of the theory of deliberative democracy from a specific islamic shi’i jurisprudential theory stated by mirza mohammad hossein na’ini (1890-1939) during th...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................................ 677 I. LOCHNER IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL CANON......................................... 680 II. LOCHNER AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE .......................................... 696 III. LOCHNER AND CONSTITUTIONAL ETHOS ............................................. 706 IV. LOCHNER AND CONSTITUTIO...

BACKGROUND Body constitutional types described in the traditional Korean medicine system, Sasang constitutional medicine, are heritable, as has been revealed by twin and family studies. Thus, individuals with the same constitution type usually have similar pathophysiological and psychological traits. In several recent genome-wide association (GWA) analyses performed to identify constitution-ass...

The Internet revolution of democracy, which will transform earthly representative democracies by employing the communication and collaboration capabilities of the Internet, has yet to come. Here, we enlist the wisdom of our forefathers to lead the way. By consulting the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, we distill core values of democracy and derive from them requirement...

Outcomes of the information revolution are sometimes viewed as a product of how market forces on the one hand and government regulatory constraints on the other shape the deployment of technology-driven advance. But social and cultural values should be woven into the equation as well because they influence the course of the information revolution directly, as well as through their effects on bo...