In this paper, Michael Kendrick explores some of the key factors in the creation of a positive and constructive relationship between bureaucracy and community. This builds on his existing notions of the “right relationship” between a person with a disability and a service worker, by extending this concept to the relationship between public bureaucracies and communities. Some of the features of ...

In usual proof systems, like the sequent calculus, only a very limited way of combining proofs is available through the tree structure. We present in this paper a logicindependent proof calculus, where proofs can be freely composed by connectives, and prove its basic properties. The main advantage of this proof calculus is that it allows to avoid certain types of syntactic bureaucracy inherent ...

BACKGROUND Surrogate decision making is common in public healthcare worldwide. In Israel any incompetent adult patient requires a Legal Guardian (LG), appointed by the court, for approval of invasive none-life saving procedures. Usually, the LG is a close family member of the patient. Nurses are the most available healthcare providers to the families and the LG during the process of appointment...