stated that he brought the test case on behalf of general practitioners who were caught between the uncertainty of the law and pressure from patients. This suggests that public pressure had a role to play in medico-legal developments which cannot be viewed entirely in a vacuum. While Keown is concerned to trace the legal interpretation of biological facts, Norman Ford, a Catholic philosopher, s...

held in Paris in July, quickly dispels that illusion, for there it was shown that in many other countries a similar experiment is, in a greater or lesser degree, being worked out, even though the stage of development reached is nowhere so advanced as in Britain. All the 1,500 representatives of the forty nations present were concerned with the same problems and asking the same questions. How is...

Established in 1950, the Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson provided Arizona women with family planning [3] resources until 1977, when it expanded to locations outside of Tucson and became Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona. The Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson was formed after the Clinica Para Madres, the first birth control [4] clinic in Arizona, merged with the national organization ...

Whitten (1976) employed the California F-scale to assess authoritarian attitudes in 1950 and in 1973. He was also able to draw some conclusions about the changes between attitudes found in 1950 and those of 1973. He explained the changes as an evolution of patterns in social phenomena. The study replicates the Whitten (1976) study utilizing the same survey methodology. This paper employs compar...

1 Sea Around Us, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2 Marine Fisheries Research and Development Division, Department of Fisheries, Bangkok, Thailand, 3 Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean, School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, 4 Changing Ocean Research Unit, Nereus Program, Institute for the O...

Constantin (Costas) Drainas, Professor of Biochemical Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece (January 19, 1950) passed away untimely the past July 5, 2011. Costas obtained his BA degree in Biology from the University of Patras on 1972 and his PhD degree in Biochemical Genetics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland on 1978. After four yea...

The IT infrastructure in organizations today is an outgrowth of over 50 years of evolution in computing platforms. We have identified five stages in this evolution, each representing a different configuration of computing power and infrastructure elements (see Figure 4-1). The five eras are automated special-purpose machines, general-purpose mainframe and minicomputer computing, personal comput...