Alan M. Wachman, Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China’s Territorial Integrity

Alan M. Leslie

One of the major developments of the second year of human life is the emergence of the ability to pretend. A child's knowledge of a real situation is apparently contradicted and distorted by pretense. If, as generally assumed, the child is just beginning to construct a system for internally representing such knowledge, why is this system of representation not undermined by its use in both compr...

Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments

When collecting subjective human ratings of items, it can be difficult to measure and enforce data quality due to task subjectivity and lack of insight into how judges’ arrive at each rating decision. To address this, we propose requiring judges to provide a specific type of rationale underlying each rating decision. We evaluate this approach in the domain of Information Retrieval, where human ...

John M Goldsmid , Maurice A Kibel , Alan

Poisoning in childhood 55 Accidental child poisoning 55 Deliberate self-poisoning in older children 56 Non-accidental poisoning 56 Treatment of child poisoning 56 Chronic poisoning 57 Notes on poisoning with individual substances 58 Unintentional injuries 60 Defi ning injuries 60 Sources of data on injury 60 Mortality data 60 Morbidity data 61 Hospital admission data 61 Emergency department dat...

Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity, and the Right to Secession

The Territorial Integrity of Iraq : Invocation , Violation , Viability

This paper considers the ways in which Iraq‘s territorial integrity has been invoked by the international community, how it has been violated by the US-led coalition both before and since 2003, and how these acts have called into question the future viability of the Iraqi state. The specific focus is on the first four years of the occupation. The paper contends that Iraq provides an instructive...