the recent report by barnhill and king about obesity prevention policy raises important issues for discussion and analysis. in response, this article raises four points for further consideration. first, a distinction between equality and justice needs to be made and consistently maintained. second, different theories of justice highlight one additional important source of disagreement about the...

Reacting to the original papers outlining the importance of “social mechanisms,” thispaper contrasts two views of the social process, the mechanismal and the relational. In the sourceshere analyzed, the mechanismal perspective is largely based on methodological individualismand generally presupposes rational, or at least intentional, action. A fundamental assumption ofthis appro...

desires of saving souls’ (p. 87). Personal assurance was deemed to be essential and those who denied it were accused of Arminianism, yet preachers strove to undermine it, for fear of laxity creeping in. Robert Baillie prescribed ‘a diligent effort “to make our personall Election sure” ’ (p. 99). On the one hand, divine grace is irresistible, but on the other the preacher demands effort from the...

Support for Single Sign-On (SSO) is a frequently voiced requirement for Service-Oriented Computing. We discuss SSO strategies and approaches, their requirements and constraints. The two most prominent approaches in this field are presented, i.e. Microsoft Passport and Liberty Alliance. Because implementations of Liberty were not widely available and in order to understand the conceptual implica...