Training has increasingly turned into an important NGO tool for rural development in Asia and Africa. Such a use has made it essential to assess the impact of these training sessions. Again a good portion of these sessions are offered through cascades. There has been skepticism on the effectiveness of this mechanism. In response to the above need and skepticism, the paper assessed the effective...

... It is difficult to say, however, whether the Korean legal profession in general has played the pivotal or appropriate role that society expected from it during Korea's transition to democracy and market economy. ... Nevertheless, it seems that the current legal system, as well as the legal profession, is incapable of meeting such demand. In this regard, the paper argues that all of the basi...

With the continued growth of the sub-specialty of forensic or sociolegal psychiatry, various models for providing theoretical and clinical experience to the trainee have been proposed.H In large part, these models for training have been based upon specific assumptions as to the primary function of the sub-specialty. For example, Pollack,4 who defines forensic psychiatry as "limited to the appli...

Advances in genomic science are attracting the interest of the U.S. military for their potential to improve medical care for members of the military and to aid in military recruitment, training, specialization, and mission accomplishment. While researchers have explored the ethical, legal, and social issues raised by the use of genomic science in a wide variety of contexts, there has been virtu...

BACKGROUND The South African legal and policy framework for sexual and reproductive healthcare provision for teenagers is complex. OBJECTIVE The article outlines the dilemmas emanating from the legal and policy framework, summarises issues with implementation of the legal and policy framework in practice, and summarises recent changes to the law. METHODS In-depth analysis of the legal and p...

The NLP research group at the University of Szeged took part in the development of the Hungarian WordNet between 2005 and 2007. In 2008, they developed a smaller, domain specific WordNet on customs law. This knowledge base contains about 650 concepts cautiously selected by legal experts from the relevant Hungarian statutory legal texts, above all, from two acts and from other laws and decrees. ...

Legal document abstraction is a common business task that involves identifying key points in contracts used for various financial and legal purposes. The abstraction process is a laborious task performed by trained legal professionals that is particularly well suited for automation via Machine Learning. The abstraction workflow involves linguistic annotation (bookmarking or highlighting of rele...

Suicide and assisted suicide are not criminal acts in Germany. However, attempting suicide may create a legal duty for physicians to try to save a patient's life. This study presents data on medical students' legal knowledge and ethical views regarding physician assisted suicide (PAS). The majority of 85 respondents held PAS to be illegal. More than a third of the students viewed PAS in certain...