Propaganda and surveillance are pervasive in contemporary society. Extensive literatures
have developed around each. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is an important point of …

This paper lays out a conceptual framework for articulating some main ethical issues raised
by health promotion and illness prevention. Building from the concept of ‘enabling’ in the …

This paper deals with the optimisation of engineering problems using genetic algorithms.
The process is discussed and the various stages of the genetic algorithm described. In …

A portion of the revenue from this book’s sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to
assist the humanitarian work of nurses, doctors, and other health care providers in the fight …

Background There is little evidence to show what scope of practice (SOP) means from the
point of view of family physicians, how family physicians think about their SOP as it changes …

Optical communication technology in long-haul and metropolitan links is experiencing a
transition to coherent techniques and high spectral efficiency modulation formats such as dual-…

Nursing theory and nursing ethics are the two main areas of inquiry in nursing scholarship
today. Each addresses common themes and each, in its own way, speaks not only about but …

For a long time, inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) has more often been studied than
outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in Southeast Asia as most countries in the region are …

The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake gave rise to legal action for involuntary manslaughter against
the scientists who just days before had participated in an official meeting called to assess …

In the design of new composite steel and concrete bridge beams, the shear connectors are
assumed to transmit all of the longitudinal shear forces at the interface between the concrete …