Mandatory vaccinations: No middle ground

A call for mandatory flu vaccinations.

Influenza vaccinations: should they be mandatory for nurses? CON.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that certain priority groups, such as healthcare providers, receive the influenza vaccine each year, and it is becoming more common that healthcare institutions mandate that nurses employed in direct patient care settings receive annual influenza immunizations. I strongly support the position that all nurses involved in direct patie...

Mandatory School Vaccinations: The Role of Tort Law

The United States is on the verge of a public health crisis. For decades, all 50 states have required that parents vaccinate their children against various diseases, including polio and measles, as a prerequisite to enrolling them in public schools [1]. While virtually all states have tailored their immunization statutes to exempt those with religious (and sometimes philosophical) objections to...

Embracing the middle ground:

There is little doubt that distance learning provides a host of opportunities for onand offcampus students. For working professionals seeking a degree, often it is not an option to attend the University full-time. Distance learning programs provide the means to pursue an otherwise unattainable education. Likewise, on-campus students benefit from the virtual presence and expertise of off-campus ...

The Middle Ground – Ancestral Logic

Many efforts have been made in recent years to construct formal systems for mechanizing general mathematical reasoning. Most of these systems are based on logics which are stronger than first-order logic (FOL). However, there are good reasons to avoid using full second-order logic (SOL) for this task. In this work we investigate a logic which is intermediate between FOL and SOL, and seems to be...