This article focuses on the ways in which childhood Holmesian canon tends to epitomise pervasive Victorian anxieties connected with inheritance and heredity their double economic genetic significance. On one hand, because children represent an earlier state of biological social development, growth education are seen as potential paths progress. other, they become physical embodiment previous st...

In this paper we intend to present the problems we encounter because of the textual nature of the knowledge in building an expert system for juridical advices on Québec Housing Law. During the knowledge engineering process, we propose to take into consideration both the very textual aspects (morphology, syntax, specific discursivity legal for instance) of the material and the reader's expertise...

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...

objective: advancements in medical technology have significantly increased the possibility of successful infertility treatment. medical interventions in the initial process of pregnancy that intend to increase the chances of pregnancy create the risk of multifetal pregnancies for both mothers and fetuses. physicians attempt to reduce the numbers of fetuses in order to decrease this risk and gua...

In the context of research and reproduction, the status of the human in vitro embryo ranges from being regarded as a person to being regarded as mere property. As regards the first view, one extreme of the spectrum for offering possible legal protection considers that the embryo constitutes a legal person from the moment of conception. For opponents of this view life is a continuum that runs fr...