This paper considers the decision problem of when to declare during the third innings of a test cricket match. There are various factors that affect the decision of the declaring team including the target score, the number of overs remaining, the relative desire to win versus draw, and the scoring characteristics of the particular match. Decision rules are developed and these are assessed again...

6 INTRODUCTION 7 o Towards a historiography of colonial psychiatry in the Caribbean 8 o Literature and madness 14 o Outline of the thesis 17 Chapter 1: Historical background 23 o A brief history of the lunatic asylum in Trinidad and British Guiana 23  Trinidad 24  British Guiana 29 o Robert Grieve: The Asylum Journal 1881 (-1886) 31  Humanitarian treatment of the insane 33  Insane bodies .....

From 1995 to 1998, the European Commission supported the “Basic Ethical Principles in European Bioethics and Biolaw” research project (1995–1998). The project was based on cooperation between 22 partners coming from most EU countries. Its aim was to identify the ethical principles relating to autonomy, dignity, integrity and vulnerability as four important ideas or values for a European bioethi...

the area of musa bay (khor musa) on which two vital and important ports of imam khomeini (port shapour) and mahshar have taken place on its shore is located geographically at the far northeast of the persian gulf, south of khuzestan province. early in the world war ii, despite iran’s neutral declaration, port shapour was blitzed and occupied by british navy on august 24, 1941. iran's resis...