INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 258 I. THE EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTS LIABILITY LAW ...................... 262 A. Early American Law ....................................................... 263 B. Modern American Law ................................................... 265 C. The Liability “Crisis” ...................................

In a series of reforms started in 1998 and formalized with the 2000 introduction of the Blueprint for Student Success, the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) implemented a wideranging series of reforms designed to boost the literacy skills of students. This paper provides an overview of the reforms, assesses the contributions made by the papers in this special issue of JESPAR, and highli...

Abstra t. Early risk predi tion involves three di erent aspe ts to be onsidered when an automati lassi er is implemented for this task: a) support for lassi ation with partial information read up to di erent time steps, b) support for dealing with unbalan ed data sets and ) a poli y to de ide when a do ument ould be lassi ed as belonging to the relevant lass with a reasonable on den e. In this ...

Most juridical systems contain the principle that an act is only unlawful if the agent conducting the act has a `guilty mind' (`mens rea'). Different law systems distinguish di erent modes of mens rea. For instance, American law distinguishes between `knowingly' performing a criminal act, `recklessness', `strict liability', etc. I will show we can formalize several of these categories. The form...

This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality presents policies best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes equality. Despite recent progress, gaps remain across all stages life, including before birth, negatively impact health, education, economic outcomes women. ...

Public hospitals play an important role in the delivery of essential healthcare in Australia as in many countries. The Australian Government has in the recent years implemented national healthcare reform to improve the performance of and access to public hospital services. This reform extends to all public hospitals including remote hospitals. However, there is limited information on how reform...

OBJECTIVES Evidence on whether removing fees benefits the poorest is patchy and weak. The aim of this paper is to measure the impact of user fee reforms on the probability of giving birth in an institution or undergoing a caesarean section (CS) in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Cameroon and Nigeria for the poorest strata of the population. SETTING Women's experience of user fees in 5 African co...

the main purpose of this study is to identify the share of public sector accounting in accounting papers as well as its research areas. in addition, this study seeks to present more clear directions about the research opportunities of public sector accounting based on iran’s situation. in this study, research based journals are reviewed from 1992 to 2014. they are analyzed and categorized based...

From the 1980s to onwards trade liberalization policies have been widely used in many countries. This process has significant impacts on economic aspects one of which is labour market. However, direction relationship between reforms and market controversial. study aims analyse effects a specific reform import tariff changes formal informal for Turkey. For that purpose, we benefit from Computabl...

The 15 years of socio-economic reforms have shown that all the changes happening in our society, have different and contradictory impact on men and women. One cannot assert for sure that market reforms certainly lead to men being among the winners, while women bearing the social costs of reforms. Below we will try to clarify this statement by analyzing Russian gender situation in different sphe...