A Critical Issues Seminar

Critical Thinking Seminar Assessment Report

Dr. William Overholt " Chinese Corruption in Comparative Perspective " Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series

According to William Overholt, President of Fung Global Institute and Senior Fellow of Harvard University Asia Center, the word "corruption" actually covers several quite different phenomena. There is a classical distinction between graft and corruption. Graft is a tip, even a very large tip, for doing one's job. In contrast, corruption in the narrow sense is a payment for doing something that ...

Computational Issues in Social Choice Dagstuhl Seminar

From .. to .., the Dagstuhl Seminar 07431 Computational Issues in Social Choice was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and idea...

Critical issues for critical loads.

I n the United States and most other countries, primary air quality standards are designed to protect human health and are based on concentrations of pollutants in the air. However, from the perspective of ecosystem health, a more appropriate metric for the impacts of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) pollutants is the total atmospheric deposition (or “load,” in kg·ha·y) of N and S, because ecosystem...

Critical issues in nephrology.

Renal and electrolyte problems are common in patients in the ICU. Several advances that occurred in the recent past have been incorporated in the diagnosis and management of these disorders and were reviewed in this article. Unfortunately, many important questions remain unanswered, especially in the area of ARF, where new therapies are anxiously awaited to make the transition from bench to bed...