photograph of Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, wearing his best beatific smile. He has just announced that in order to protect patients and their relatives from (implicitly) trigger-happy doctors and those unfeeling faceless bureaucrats who dared incentivise the Liverpool Care Pathway, he plans to ‘enshrine the “basic right” of patients to be involved in decisions when they are morta...

The landmark case Frye v. United States is associated with the general-acceptance standard for admissibility of scientific evidence. The standard, still the law in some jurisdictions, has largely been replaced by one based on Federal Rule of Evidence 702. Although it is known from the 1923 Frye opinion's terse wording that the science in question was a systolic blood pressure deception test, th...

Late last year the English Court of Appeal confirmed a lower court’s ruling that doctors could impose an operation to separate recently born conjoined twins, overriding the refusal of consent of their parents. The doctors believed the operation would probably save one of the babies at the cost of killing the other, while not operating would highly probably be followed by the death of both twins...

Corporate social irresponsibility and corporate misconducts are a severe threat to the endeavours establish more responsible business practices. Therefore, academia practice alike try find ways anticipate these behaviors. In this regard, linguistic analysis can provide an approach detect decoupling tendencies of firms, that is identify firms fail walk talk. This paper examines how sustainabilit...

Geo Maher’s Anticolonial Eruptions is a force to be reckoned with. As reading experience, it’s bloody delight, even as – and maybe because Maher guides us down in the depths of volcanoes stoking explosive fires rebellion. We also get follow moles below high above ground they wait for their moment emerge, shock, rebel. These are blind one sense, while another sense can tell time, or more accurat...

The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes sense indeterminateness it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein Baghdad , war Frankenfiction. It stages horror chronicle national disintegration through rise sewn-together zombie mark appalling arrival Iraqi dissenter...

Abstract The beginnings of archaeology in Egypt and India are the subject this paper. In both countries, antiquities were carried away by powerful. Moreover, hubris colonial powers ruling countries made it inevitable that not only antiquities, but knowledge about past, appropriated different ways. For modern Egyptians, Pharaonic past was remote culture distant time. people themselves until fair...

Abstract The process of European integration has often been used as either a model or an anti-model for other regional experiences. This article discusses the Union's shortcomings in crisis management, arguing that valuable ‘how not to’ lessons can be drawn by dissecting initial stages eurozone and COVID–19 pandemic ‘moments truth’. main policy mistakes committed at onset both crises are explor...

Overconfidence is a common psychological condition defined as the irrational belief that one's chances of success are higher than they really are. The damage overconfidence can do in world finance even more glaring. Small and medium-sized investors lack information collection, professional skills, trend-following behaviour large shareholders, firm management, institutional investors. In China, ...