Responses of the African weaver ants (Oecophylla longinoda) to nest damages were studied in the field in Nigeria. During the wet season, the ants responded to nest damages almost unexceptionnally by a quick onset of nest-repairing behaviour. The latencies to the start of nest-repairing activities (LN) did not depend on the size of the damage, but they were significantly shorter during the night...

Section 46 of the Marriage Law of China1 provides that an innocent spouse shall have the right to apply for damages as compensation where divorce proceedings are brought under circumstances that involve (a) the commission of bigamy, (b) cohabitation of a married person with a third party, (c) domestic violence or (d) maltreatment or desertion of one family member by another. Academics have vari...

INTRODUCTION Neural damages are among the main factors that contribute to physical disability in leprosy. Systematic monitoring using a broad physical, psychological and social approach is necessary. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to characterize the limitation of activity and social participation and its correlation with disabilities and/or impairment in individuals after being di...

Clustered DNA damages-two or more closely spaced damages (strand breaks, abasic sites, or oxidized bases) on opposing strands-are suspects as critical lesions producing lethal and mutagenic effects of ionizing radiation. However, as a result of the lack of methods for measuring damage clusters induced by ionizing radiation in genomic DNA, neither the frequencies of their production by physiolog...

Punitive damages are a controversial remedy in Canadian and non-Canadian law. Some scholars have gone so far as to argue that punitive damages are entirely inconsistent with the goals and principles of private law and ought to be abolished. Notwithstanding these criticisms, the Supreme Court of Canada has treated punitive damages as a relatively uncontroversial private law remedy. However, the ...

It is not the purpose of this article to discuss all the situations in which damages are awarded by the New Jersey Court of Chancery, for all the decisions stem from one general rule, namely, that whenever a court of equity has once acquired jurisdiction of a cause, it will retain such cause in order to do full and complete justice between the parties with respect to the subject-matter. This ru...