DYING DECLARATIONS.

Some factors affecting the admissibility of dying declarations.

Declarations

continents convened in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E between October 21–23 2013 at the First international conference on waterpipe tobacco smoking to review the evidence and recommend actions to curb the waterpipe tobacco pandemic. A declaration was issued on October 23, 2013. In Building on the Declaration of the 1st Conference adopted in Abu Dhabi, a second declaration was issued following the 2nd Confere...

Medical declarations on temperance.

As early as 1736, the Royal College of Physicians submitted to Parliament a representation concerning the excessive consumption of spirituous liquors. No further authoritative statement was made for nearly a century, by which time the first Temperance and Total Abstinence societies had been formed. Many medical men were happy to support the call for moderation and a number of societies issued d...

Declarations of independence

According to orthodox (Kolmogorovian) probability theory, conditional probabilities are by definition certain ratios of unconditional probabilities. As a result, orthodox conditional probabilities are undefined whenever their antecedents have zero unconditional probability. This has important ramifications for the notion of probabilistic independence. Traditionally, independence is defined in t...

Declarations of Dependence

" Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. " Thomas Hobbes 1 It all depends, doesn't it? Dependence is one of these subtle concepts with so many connotations and usages, that any analysis of its meaning is predestined to fall short of some of its aspects. In the first paragraph of the book Dependence Logic [9], Väänänen states: 'Dependence is a common p...