Is chemical peeling becoming outdated?

Is People-Structure-Tasks-Technology Matrix Outdated?

The paper investigates whether the classical socio-technical matrix that differentiate 4 quadrants of social-technical system: people, structure, tasks and technology can still be useful for practical purposes. The paper gives a positive answer on the question, provided that the level of abstraction in defining these four quadrants is increased to deal with culture, type of structure, methods (...

Is the Law of Armed Conflict Outdated?

The law of armed conflict has often been described as outdated and ill suited to military conflicts in the twenty-first century. Both academics and practitioners have argued that today’s wars tend to be asymmetric conflicts between states and nonstate actors, whereas the law of armed conflict was made with a view to symmetrical interstate war. This article challenges that notion. T law of armed...

Is HIV becoming more virulent?

Is the ‘Born Alive’ Rule Outdated and Indefensible?

This article attempts to theorise legal personhood in a manner that will enable courts to express what it is about newborn infants that relevantly distinguishes them from foetuses for legal purposes. This is a difficult task if one focuses solely on the intrinsic properties of the foetus, as many philosophical and biological accounts of personhood tend to do. Further, it is a task complicated b...

Outdating Outdated Objects

In many application scenarios the database is changing quite rapidly Because the man agement of such data is rather expensive and cumbersome many applications like data ware houses only store some aggregations of it We describe a strategy how the evolution of object databases can be controlled by enhanced versioning Therefore we extend the notions of ODMG in order to capture temporal versions W...