The medico-legal issues raised by 'conscientious objection' constitute a particularly revealing, though hitherto neglected instance of the emerging relationship between community responsibility and personal health during the late Victorian period. The following paragraphs seek to indicate the relevance of a medico-legal approach to Victorian social history, and to suggest certain areas of resea...

User mobility prediction can enable a mobile service provider to optimize the use of its network resources, e.g., through coordinated selection of base stations and intelligent content prefetching. In this paper, we study how to perform mobility prediction by leveraging the base station level location information readily available to a service provider. However, identifying real movements from ...

W hen Anders Björklund started medical school in the early 1960s, scientists still believed that the structure of the adult brain was fixed and immutable and that nerve cells could not be regenerated after damage or death. But that view changed when Björklund began using a powerful new fluorescence microscopic method to view subsets of neurons. He became convinced that given the right condition...

Premodern Chinese texts pose problems that are difficult to accommodate with the current TEI text model, which bases the main hierarchy of a text on its structural content, rather than on a hierarchy that models the pages, lines and character positions. For the TEI, this is a sensible decision and has led to the abolishment of elements like and in the latest release of the Guideli...

This article discusses the main differences in dealing with insurers’ bad faith under American and Chinese insurance law, and recommends Chinese Government introducing the American bad faith lawsuit to China. For this purpose, the nature, essence, and the general and specific requirements of bad faith lawsuit in America is firstly presented. Then, the article states how insurers’ bad faith in C...

One of the arguments for which Kant is best known (or most notorious) is the so-called “moral proof” of the existence of God, freedom, and the immortal soul. Versions of the proof can be found in each of the Critiques, in various lectures, and in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. “Proof” has to be taken loosely here, since the attitude licensed by moral considerations, for Kant, is...

The Liquefaction Experiment and Analysis Project (LEAP), an international research collaboration among researchers from the US, UK, Japan, China and Taiwan, is a validation campaign to assess the capabilities of existing numerical/constitutive models for liquefaction analysis by using laboratory experiments and centrifuge tests. The nature, goals, and scope of the project are presented in this ...

A theory T is trustworthy iff, whenever a theory U is interpretable in T , then it is faithfully interpretable. In this paper we provide a characterization of trustworthiness. We provide a simple proof of Friedman’s Theorem that finitely axiomatized, sequential, consistent theories are trustworthy. We provide an example of a theory whose schematic predicate logic is complete Π2.

This paper summarizes theoretical perspectives from psychology supportive of a healing effect of faith. First, faith is defined as a congruence of belief, trust, and obedience in relation to God or the divine. Second, evidence for a faith-healing association is presented, empirically and in theory. To exemplify religiously sanctioned affirmation of such a connection, selected passages are cited...

Based on the recent proposal in this journal (Streib, 2001a) to revise James Fowler’s (1981) faith development theory, the article argues for a revision of faith development research to account not only for structural diversity, but also for narrative and content diversity. Therefore, it suggests the inclusion of content-analytical and narrative-analytical procedures into faith development rese...