In Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought to have the preembryos destroyed over the objections of his former wife, Mary Sue Davis. The decision in Davis, although not binding in other states, suggested a framework for resolving similar disputes in the US. That framework established that cou...

Today’s assistive technologies aim to improve the quality of information acquisition for visually impaired persons. Screen readers and screen magnifiers are the main visual assistive technologies that are currently proposed. However, due to economical reasons, these technologies do not consider specific needs of visually impaired people. In this paper, we propose an approach to make Web pages m...

Purpose In response to environmental uncertainty, organizations rely on independent, empowered teams increase their responsiveness change. The purpose of this paper is analyze how objectives and key results (OKRs) can contribute creating a shared vision which keeps the different, aligned. Design/methodology/approach Through qualitative study, develops conceptual model OKRs lead vision. authors ...

We consider the problem of measurement compression with side information in the one-shot setting with shared randomness. In this problem, Alice shares a pure state with Referee and Bob and she performs a measurement on her registers. She wishes to communicate the outcome of this measurement to Bob using shared randomness only, in such a way that the outcome that Bob receives is correctly correl...

permanent editor-in-chief is selected. With publication of this issue, I have reached a long-planned retirement from the NIEHS and Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ). The mission of EHP is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most curren...