Although agreement among scientists on anthropogenic climate change is clear, national surveys show that the American public’s perceptions on the science of climate change diverge significantly from the “consensus view.” Explanations for this divergence range from the influence of local weather events to the health of the economy, while many place blame on the efforts of climate change deniers ...

Pronoun interpretation in English has been demonstrated to be sensitive to an interaction between grammatical and pragmatically-driven factors. This study investigated the interpretation of pronouns in Japanese, which has both null and overt forms. Thirty-two native speakers of Japanese participated in a passage completion experiment with transfer-of-possession contexts, varying prompt type, as...

We can well agree with Mr. Barnett when he says that a book dealing with the legal responsibility of the drunkard from the medical standpoint has been much needed by both the medical and legal professions. The present little book aims at showing how far the alcoholic criminal is responsible and we can say that Mr. Barnett has well succeeded in his aim. No doubt drunkenness is at first a vicious

Providing the solution to the debt and deficit problems of developed economies is too big a task. I doubt it is possible to offer general recipes that can apply to all industrial countries, despite the surprisingly common origins of the deficit problems documented by the Mussa and Masson paper in this conference. For example, while in most countries accumulated social security liabilities repre...

Shelley Feldman: Social Development, Capabilities, and the Contradictions of (Capitalist) Development and David Barkin: Incorporating Indigenous Epistemologies into the Construction of Alternative Strategies to Globalization to Promote Sustainable Regional Resource Management Paul B. Thompson Shelley Feldman draws from a number of authors who have commented on Sen and Nussbaum’s “capabilities a...

Presumptive (or 'spot') tests have served forensic scientists, law enforcement, and legal practitioners for over a hundred years. Yet, the intended design of such tests, enabling quick identification drugs...