Fundamental rights and punishment: Is there an EU perspective?

Is There a Fundamental Level?

1. Talk about ‘‘the fundamental level of reality’’ pervades contemporary metaphysics. The fundamentalist starts with (a) a hierarchical picture of nature as stratified into levels, adds (b) an assumption that there is a bottom level which is fundamental, and winds up, often enough, with (c) an ontological attitude according to which the entities of the fundamental level are primarily real, whil...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Is there an association between physical punishment in childhood and physical health in adulthood?

Since the landmark study on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), there has been a growing interest in the relationship between ACEs and physical health. ACEs are associated with smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, alcohol use, and liver disease in adults in a dose-dependent fashion. In the original study by Felitti et al, ACEs were more c...

Reasoning with fundamental rights

People often withdraw previously drawn conclusions in light of new information. This defeasible reasoning is also important for law, where judges often have to change their verdicts in light of new evidence. Here we investigate defeasibility in the context of conflicting fundamental rights. When, for instance, law to property conflicts with law to information, can one of these rights be “defeat...

P-23: Is There An Association between HOST Grades and Sperm Quality

Background: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) can be considered the solstice in vitro insemination technique because it has powerfully allowed the treatment of male factor infertility, but in this procedure, except visual morphological selection, there is no standardization for sperm selection. Recently, hypo osmotic swelling test (HOST) has been proposed to have the potential to select i...