From obscurity to impurity

Rehabilitating Totality in Sentencing: from Obscurity to Principle

The totality principle applies in cases of multiple offending to reduce the total effective sentence that is imposed on offenders. This is normally achieved by either making some or all of the individual sentences concurrent, or by reducing the length of the individual sentences. Although totality is a well-established sentencing doctrine, its scope and its impact on the overall sentence are un...

Recent Advances in Psoriatic Arthritis from Obscurity to Prominence.

Psoriatic arthritis is a fascinating inflammatory arthritis. Till recently it did not generate interest for lack of understanding of its immunopathology, and lack of effective treatment. This has changed. PsA is now one of the hot topics - all due to elucidation of genetic susceptibility associations, immunopathogenesis and availability of effective therapy. In this communication we provide an ...

From Integrability To Conductance, Impurity Systems

From Integrability to Conductance, Impurity Systems

We compute the DC conductance with two different methods, which both exploit the integrability of the theories under consideration. On one hand we determine the conductance through a defect by means of the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz and standard relativistic potential scattering theory based on a Landauer transport theory picture. On the other hand we propose a Kubo formula for a defect system ...

Obscurity on Obesity

Much research is underway on the links between diet and obesity. So too are long-running disputes among nutritionists on core questions about the relationship. This editorial reviews the state-of-play on four issues: what makes people fat, how to lose weight, how much do we eat, and what policies to adopt towards obesity. The practical consequence is that, at present, frontline health professio...