THE PRESIDENT said she was sure all members present had immensely enjoyed Dr. Thompson's paper; it had been put together with meticulous care, and contained much historical information. She feared that doctors often considered a good deal of privilege attached to their evidence, and thought that was a pity. Present to-night, too, was another barrister, Dr. Letitia Fairfield, and she was pleased...

Alan Schwartz and Joel Watson January 2000

Unlike data mining, text mining has received only limited attention in legal circles. Nevertheless, interesting legal stumbling blocks exist, both with respect to the data collection and data sharing phases, due to the strict rules of copyright and database law. Conflicts are particularly likely when content is extracted from commercial databases, and when texts that have a minimal level of cre...

Deviation from an acceptable standard of care is one of the central issues in a lawyer’s mind in any malpractice lawsuit. However, the trigger for a lawsuit is the occurrence of a compli‐ cation. That is, intense scrutiny of a doctor’ practice usually only occurs once harm has occurred to a patient. Thus avoiding complications is the maxim to follow. Understanding the situations in which compli...

S the titIe of this contribution A indicates, the subject has at Ieast three major aspects: the medical (dermatologic), the forensic, and the industria1 or economic. It is obviously impossibIe to do justice to al1 three in this relativeIy brief communication. For the discussion of the IegaI aspect aIone wouId require a voIuminous treatise, as each country, and, in the United States, each State,...

nowadays, sport is known as a great business in trade activities and has brought huge revenues for athletes; sport teams and other sport personalities whereas large part of this revenue emanates from intellectual property rights particularly different kinds of trademarks. regarding fundamental principles and legal approaches of leading systems, this paper attempts to clarify the eminent role of...

The purpose of the article is the establishment of the tightness of the connection between the various sources of financing and the introduction of innovations at enterprises. In the process of research such scientific methods have been used: modeling – to determine the influence of the source of funding for innovation activities, on the number of new technological processes introduced and the ...

Faced with social and health system capacity constraints and rising and changing demand for welfare services, governments and welfare providers are increasingly relying on innovation to help support and enhance services. However, the evidence reported by several studies indicates that the realization of that potential is not an easy task. Innovations can be deemed inherently complex to implemen...