This paper examines ways in which the legal concepts of duty and power might be used for the benefit of the public health, and the role of public health ethics in relation to these duties and powers. The discussion is placed within a framework of risk regulation. Risk is a notion which has been much examined in social science and epidemiology but until recently, has not been a concept which law...

What scope does a sub-national economy have to affect the level of inequality? Does a policy menu consistent with the theories of fiscal federalism provide for an ability to affect inequality measures, or does this ability require the powers of a nation state? In this paper we discuss these questions in the context of the debate around the Scottish independence referendum, in which inequality h...

The corrections to the current algebra mass formulae for the pseu-doscalar mesons are analyzed by means of a simultaneous exansion in powers of the light quark masses and powers of 1/N c. The relative magnitude of the two expansion parameters is related to the mass ratio M 2 η /M 2 η ′ , which represents a quantity of order N c m s. A set of mass formulae is derived, including an inequality, wh...

Before effective anti-poverty policy can be designed and implemented, the extent, trend and distribution of poverty must be identified. In this sense, poverty measurement is a crucial intermediate step in public policymaking and development planning. This paper asks whether the estimated proportion of the world’s population with income below US$1 (adjusted according to purchasing power parity) ...

Water governance is critical to water security, and to the long-term sustainability of the Earth's freshwater systems. This review examines recent debates regarding the governance dimensions of water security, including adaptive governance, polycentric governance, social learning and multi-level governance. The analysis emphasizes the political and institutional dimensions of water governance, ...

In this paper, we analyze the decisional power index, the so called Hoede-Bakker index. This index takes the preferences of the players into account, as well as the social structure in which players may influence each other. We investigate the properties of the Hoede-Bakker index. We adapt some postulates for power indices and voting power paradoxes for the Hoede-Bakker set up. We investigate w...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betweenwomen’s employment and the socio-emotional functions of the family. for the purposeof this study, 300 women were selected through method among women livingin district 11 of tehran. 199 individuals were unemployed and 101 individualswere employed. they responded a researcher-made questionnaire which measuredsocial and emotional ...

fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. it challenges the safety of cities. for this reason it has gained considerable attention among the sociologists and criminologists over the last 20 years. whilst men experiencing relatively high rates of violence, they report their fear of crime less than women. in the contrary women have a much greater fear of crime than men, but are victimized le...

A dyadic methodological and statistical approach to social power is used to test the notion that an individual’s power and a partner’s power have distinct effects on the individual’s emotional experience. Two studies examined actor and partner effects of social power on emotion within dyadic interactions. Across interpersonal contexts and measures of social power, the individual’s own social po...