Discussion of “Rock quality designation (RQD): time to rest in peace”

Terri Schiavo: rest in peace.

As Charles Weijer has pointed out, the case of Terri Schiavo involved a family conflict regarding end-of-life decisionmaking. This irreconcilable conflict resulted in a series of judicial interventions that were a rerun, with some differences, of the Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Beth Cruzan and other wellknown cases. Nowadays, many hospitals rely on clinical ethicists, ethics committees or mediator...

investigating cda tendency and critical thinking abilities of iranian translation students in relation to their translation quality

امروزه مسئله ی اساسی در رویکرد های جدید زبانشناسی، ابعاد اجتماعی و ایدئولوژیک زبان تلقی می شود. گروه های مختلف اجتماعی، سیاسی و یا مذهبی از زبان به عنوان ابزاری برای دستیابی به اهداف درون گروهی خود استفاده می کنند (ون دایک، 2003). آنها معولا ایدئولوژی خود را صریحا ابراز نمی کنند بلکه آن را در غالب کلمات و ساختارهای زبانی پنهان نگه می دارند. تشخیص ایدئولوژی های پنهان در گفتمان نیازمند این موضوع ...

The "vertical-horizontal" debates: time for the pendulum to rest (in peace)?

This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern perspective. To complement the theme of this month’s issue, Mukund Uplekar & Mario C Raviglione review a paper by Halfdan Mahler on tuberculosis programmes in developing countries that was published in the Bulletin of...

Peace in Our Time

A s we don our armor for the second Great War of Internet Governance, we need to know the cost of the combat and the real weapons that we bring to the fight. The field of battle began filling the moment the US Department of Commerce announced, on 14 March, that it would no longer be the political guarantor of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). This war merely continues the first Great War o...

The National Pharmaceuticals Strategy: Rest in peace, revive or renew?