This intensely human and at times moving document should he read by all psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychiatric social workers, Local Authority Mental Health Committee members and the framers of our new National Health Service. It contains the edited writings of a sufferer from a severe obsessive compulsive state, whose main symptoms are fear of open spaces and a compulsion to indecen...

There are three main areas of our federal system that need reform. The first is the allocation of powers and functions between the levels of government. The allocation made by the framers of the Constitution in the 1890s may no longer be appropriate today. Many of the complaints of unnecessary duplication, cost-shifting and lack of coordination can be traced back to the absence of clear divisio...

Abstract After the re-introduction of multiparty system governance in Malawi 1993, ethnic associations have become popular for mobilising and re-asserting identity. Some most notable are Chewa Heritage Foundation, Mulhakho wa Alhomwe, Mzimba Association. These mainly claim that their establishment is to promote preserve culture while some go further add they also aim at facilitating socio-econo...

We propose a new output event-triggered control design for linear discrete-time systems with constant arbitrarily long input delays, using delay compensating subpredictors. prove input-to-state stability of the closed loop system, framers and theory positive systems. A novel feature our approach is use matrices absolute values, instead Euclidean norms, in event triggers design. illustrate model...

the most challenging part of the commission, painting the head and face, was the most trying day for me because I was unable to move my head without upsetting the pose. The artist often consulted the photographs and to my surprise used a tape measure to determine the relationships between various parts of my face. The technique of facial measurement derives from Holbein, the sixteenth century D...

The goal of originalism has always been purity. Originalists claim that their methods cleanse constitutional interpretation of politics, discretion, and indeterminacy. The key to attaining purity is history. Originalist methods supposedly discern in history a fixed constitutional meaning. Many originalists now claim that the most advanced method-the approach that reveals the purest constitution...