Climate wars and fat wars: A new role for law

Law wars: the patient menace.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(4) Oh bollocks. Now patients have a legal right to register with me. So no more sympathetic ‘TV doctor’ facial expressions explaining that because they live outside our catchment area I’m really sorry but you can’t come and grace us with your nasty problems. In recent years schools have made this method of discrimination easy for us. They started it...

The New Wars Debate:

Sustainability 'Wars' in a New England Town

A research project into large group decision-making in a New England Town Meeting surprised us with the degree to which sustainability came to be the axis around which political debate revolved. We identified two very different yet overlapping conceptions of sustainability: one emphasized fiscal responsibility; the other asserted the merits of environmental stewardship. Each of the two concepti...

Climate not to blame for African civil wars.

Vocal actors within policy and practice contend that environmental variability and shocks, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, drive civil wars in Africa. Recently, a widely publicized scientific article appears to substantiate this claim. This paper investigates the empirical foundation for the claimed relationship in detail. Using a host of different model specifications and alternative...

Clone Wars

Code clones, the result of the ”copy&paste” programming technique, have negative impact on software quality and on the efficiency of the software maintenance process. Although copying may be the fastest way of creating a new feature, after a while it is really hard to detect and maintain the multiple instances of the same code snippets. Based on static source code analysis, clone detectors try ...