This paper presents arguments purporting to show that von Neumann’s description of the measurement process in quantum mechanics has a modern day version in the decoherence approach. We claim that this approach and the de Broglie-Bohm theory emerge from Bohr’s interpretation and are therefore obliged to deal with some obscure ideas which were anticipated, explicitly or implicitly and carefully c...

Climate change threatens health, health care, and the industries and resources upon which these depend. The growing prevalence and severity of its health consequences and economic costs are alarming health professionals and organizations as their professional obligations, grounded in the core value of health, include protecting against these harms. One means of fulfilling these obligations is t...

Unlike the USA, South Africa (SA) does not have 'Good Samaritan' laws that oblige doctors to stop at road accidents. In SA, the conduct of doctors in such situations is governed by the common law. Doctors coming across injured people at a road accident should stop and render assistance, unless they are likely to be exposed to personal danger or injury, they are mentally or physically incapable ...

The gendered historical investigation of migrant labour in Namibia (and southern Africa more broadly) has rightly considered the ways which women left behind sending areas were obliged to...

According to Robin P. Peek, co-founder of the Open Access Directory and associate professor at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, scholarly communication through the dissemination of journals was first reported in 1665 (Peek & Newby, 1996, p. 5). However, it took 337 years for the scholarly community to formalize a global initiative declaring research a public good,...

Cell-swelling, induced by a hyposmotic shock, activates the release of taurine from lactating rat mammary tissue explants. The degree of stimulation of taurine efflux was dependent upon the extent of cell-swelling. Volume-sensitive taurine release was attenuated by the anion transport inhibitors NPPB, DIOA, DIDS, niflumate, flufenamate, mefenamate and diiodosalicylate but not by salicylate. Cel...

Recent work on biographical disruption has emphasised the critical importance of timing and context to the understanding of the effects of illness on identity. This paper takes a different approach by examining the inter-relationship between illness and key sources of identity, in this instance HIV infection and motherhood. It is argued that, viewed in this light, biographical disruption remain...

Specifying policies doesn’t occur in splendid isolation but as part of refining an enterprise specification. The roles, the tasks, and the business processes of an ODP community provide the basic alphabet over which we write our policies. We illustrate this through exploring a conference programme committee case study. We discuss how we might formulate policies and show how policies are refined...