Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Suffering - By K Johannsen (2021). Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 3 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK. 112 pages Hardback/Paperback/ebook (ISBN: 9780367275709). Price (hardback) £130, (paperback) £36.99, (ebook) £33.29. Volume 32

The Conllict Tactics Scales (CTS) are the most widely used instrument for identifying domestic violence. There are two main versions of tlie CTS: the CTS2 (Straus, Hamby. Boney-McCoy. and Sugarman 1996) is the version measuring violence against a partner in a dating or marital relationship. The CTS2 has scales to nieas~ire victiinizatioii and perpetration of thi-ee lactics that are onen used in...

Within a 14-year period, Liberia endured two consecutive civil wars in what one scholar has called a ‘descent into anarchy’ (Ellis, 1999). The first war—led by US–Liberian Charles Taylor—started in 1989 and ended with a peace agreement in 1996, only to be followed by the election of Taylor as president one year later.1 The second war began in April 1999, when a group of insurgents of the Liberi...

Estimates of the chemical composition of the bulk (entire) Moon fall into two drastically different categories. One group of estimates claims that the Moon is enriched in refractory elements (those that boil at high temperatures, such as calcium and aluminum) by about 50% compared to Earth. The other group claims that the abundances of refractory elements are the same in the Earth and Moon. Two...

This paper presents a Taylor series approach for solving linear fractional de-centralized bi-level multi-objective decision-making (LFDBL-MODM) problems with asingle decision maker at the upper level and multiple decision makers at the lower level.In the proposed approach, the membership functions associated with each objective(s) ofthe level(s) of LFDBL-MODM are transformed by using a Taylor s...