Recent Geographical Work in Europe

RECENT WORK Recent Work: Dispositions

Controversy about dispositions ranges over the following four domains: (i) the semantics of disposition ascriptions; (ii) the distinction between dispositional and categorical properties; (iii) the metaphysical status of dispositions, i.e. their fundamentality, naturalness and intrinsicness; and (iv) the various dispositional analyses of philosophical notions like causation, laws, modality, cou...

Discrimination at Work in Europe

A key measure of women's improvement in employment is the availability of good-quality jobs for women in legislative, senior official or managerial (LSOM) positions. Higher participation rates for women in LSOM jobs indicate a reduction of discriminatory barriers. Although women still represent a distinct minority in such positions throughout the world, holding only 28% of these senior jobs, th...

Work-Based Learning in Europe

Redistributing work in aging Europe.

As Europe ages, the proportion of people who work will decline unless older individuals remain in the labor force. Such reform could be part of a more general redistribution of work. If a greater share of the population worked, then the average number of hours worked per week could be reduced. This could particularly help younger people and increase Europe's low birth rates. The challenges faci...

Recent Work in Abdominal Surgery

Since my last communication to this Society I have completed a further series of 60 cases of abdominal section, and as some of them presented features of special interest, I have ventured to record them shortly. 1st, A group of cases of ovariotomy complicated with twisting of the pedicle. I have met with 4 such cases in my last group of 60, and altogether, in 260 operations which completes my e...