Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

In his Lettre (1787), advocating political tolerance towards the Jews of France, Isaiah Berr-Bing, maskil and pupil Mendelssohn, addresses French Christians asks for emancipation Jews. Fifty-three years later, young rabbi Lazare Wogue published Sermon sur la Tolerance fellow believers in Metz. meantime, concept had lost its initial meaning. It now was brought into play theological disputes that...

Academic pursuits are inseparable from the medium within which they take place - life. The lives of medical trainees can present many challenges that are independent of academic demands. Poor psychological health has been found to develop in medical trainees. Can medical educators minimize this decline in well-being? Positive education - learning skills for traditional academia and to foster ha...

SYSTEM R is a variant of the original STRIPS by Fikes and Nilsson (1971) (called forwardchaining, recursive STRIPS in Nilsson [1998]). Briefly speaking, given a conjunction of simple goals, it selects one of them to work on. If there is an action that is executable and will make this simple goal true once executed, then it does this action and then tries to achieve the other simple goals in the...

Corporate governance (CG) reformists typically presume better-governed companies are more transparent to investors. We focus on CG and transparency in Japan, where has been an ongoing issue. Using local ratings of Japanese companies’ data corporate disclosures their associated stock returns, we do find have made frequent timelier disclosures, share prices reflected value-relevant information ea...