Committed to rebellion

Rape and rebellion.

To cite: Smith L. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2013, 39, 58–59. DEFINITION OF RAPE The Oxford Dictionary gives a definition of the word ‘rape’ as: “late Middle English (originally denoting violent seizure of property, later carrying off a woman by force): from Anglo-Norman French rap (noun), raper (verb), from Latin rapere ‘seize’ ”. This definition shows that rape ha...

Points of Rebellion

Taiping Rebellion, 1851–1864

The scenario was aggravated by the entry of western capitalism. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the import of goods from abroad, especially opium, had risen steeply compared to exports. Thus the balance of trade went against China. The import hike was met by the export of large quantities of silver from China to other countries. Before the beginning of the nineteenth century, tael...

Being Committed to Qualitative Simulation

We present a simple but potentially extremely powerful technique for associating degrees of commitment to the possible behaviours produced by qualitative simulation algorithms. The ‘distance’ between the predicted successor states and those determined from local propagation through the constraints is used to determine the most likely state and hence prioritise the behaviours. The method forms a...

Communities committed to underserved care.