Discounts in Placing Pre-renounced Shares in Rights Issues

Shareholders’ Pre-Emptive Rights

Unresolved issues in pre-meiotic anther development

Compared to the diversity of other floral organs, the steps in anther ontogeny, final cell types, and overall organ shape are remarkably conserved among Angiosperms. Defects in pre-meiotic anthers that alter cellular composition or function typically result in male-sterility. Given the ease of identifying male-sterile mutants, dozens of genes with key roles in early anther development have been...

Human rights issues affecting women in Napoleonic legal medicine textbooks.

Legal medicine (a name which may be a misnomer) is not, strictly speaking, an art of healing.’ Rather, it deals with the application of medical opinions and knowledge to judicial proceedings. While it is usually said that there were five distinct periods in the history of legal medicine-the ancient period of the Hebrew priest-judges and the Egyptians; the Roman period; the mediaeval period of S...

Placing Nichiren in the “Big Picture” Some Ongoing Issues in Scholarship

This article places Nichiren within the context of three larger scholarly issues: de3nitions of the new Buddhist movements of the Kamakura period; the reception of the Tendai discourse of original enlightenment (hongaku) among the new Buddhist movements; and new attempts, emerging in the medieval period, to locate “Japan” in the cosmos and in history. It shows how Nichiren has been represented ...

HIV treatment as prevention — human rights issues

Recognizing access to HIV treatment as a human right has been important in efforts to ensure greater resources for the scale up of ART globally. However, it has not always been accepted by governments, and those asserting the right to HIV treatment have sometimes been in conflict with those asserting other rights, such as the right to intellectual property. Some governments have disputed their ...