Determining and Reflective Judgments: Two Approaches to Understanding Legal Decisions

Auditors’ Gender and Age and Their Relationship to Judgments and Decisions (the Case of Iran)

This study aims at investigating the relationship between age and gender of auditors and their judgment and decision. Population of this study includes dependent auditors engaged in audit firms member of Iranian Association of Certified Public Accountants (IACPA). Random sampling was used and the questionnaireswere distributed among 100 auditors. The methodology of the study is descriptive-surv...

Jurisprudential-Legal Approaches to Stem Cells Technology

Introduction: Along with the use of stem cells technology, many jurisprudential, moral, and legal challenges have been created, including the exploitation of women, intentional abortion, conversion embryos into commodities, stem cells trade, breaking the human dignity, and threats caused by biological agents. Elimination of such possible consequences requires drafting laws and legal mechanisms ...

Approaches to Reflective Method Invocation

Reflective method invocation is a long known performance bottle neck in Java. Different approaches to optimizing reflective method invocation are adopted by JVMs. In this paper we present an overview of the different approaches and a performance analysis using synthetic and the DaCapo benchmarks. We implement all of the approaches in the Jikes RVM.

Epistemology of Legal Judgments

Recognition - based judgments and decisions :

Does a sense of recognition play a pre-eminent role when it comes to people’s inferences and choices? Many studies have investigated how people make decisions based on their previous encounters with an object or situation. To illustrate this, researchers have examined how consumers rely on their familiarity with brand names when deciding which consumer goods to buy (Coates, Butler, & Berry, 200...