the concept of a witch hunt is frequently invoked, in recent times, to describe a kind of procedure for deciding the guilt of a person against whom an accusation has been made. But what exactly is a witch hunt? In this paper, ten conditions are formulated as a cluster of properties characterizing the witch hunt as a framework in which arguments are used: (1) pressure of social forces, (2) stigm...

This online survey of practising radiation oncologists from Korea, China and Japan was conducted to investigate the current practices in radiotherapy (RT) for spine metastasis and to compare these practices across the three countries. The questionnaire included nine general information questions and two clinical scenarios (representing 'typical' and 'good' prognosis spine metastasis), with seve...

Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) purchased the digitized United States Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 and American State Papers (1789-1838) from the Readex Division of NewsBank, inc and, once funds and records were available, the accompanying MARC records. The breadth of information found in the Serial Set is described, along with the difficulties in using the print version (inco...

Shucking is one of the necessary parts for the deep process of peanut, and has great impact on the quality of peanut kernel.Taking the shucking force as the evaluation indicator, the effects of mechanical and physical characteristics, which include the loading orientation, loading rate, moisture content, partical size and the number of peanut kernel, on peanut shucking were investigated by mean...

we consider a 2-dimensional representation of the hecke algebra h(g7; u), whereg7 is the complex re ection group and u is the set of indeterminatesu = (x1; x2; y1; y2; y3; z1; z2; z3):after specializing the indetrminates to non zero complex numbers, we then determine a nec-essary and sucient condition that guarantees the irreducibility of the complex specializationof the representation of the ...

background: the aim was to evaluate the relapse risk of vivax malaria in patients who received radical treatment in hormozgan province, a malarious area located on southeast of iran. methods: a total of 95 symptomatic vivax malaria infected patients were enrolled in urban health centers of bandar - abbas, minab, bandar-jask and bashagard districts of hormozgan province, southeast of iran from j...

In the functional programming literature, compiling is often expressed as a translation between source and target program calculi. In recent work, Sabry and Wadler proposed the notion of a reeection as a basis for relating the source and target calculi. A reeection elegantly describes the situation where there is a kernel of the source language that is isomorphic to the target language. However...

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