Revelation or confirmation?

Perjury versus Truth-Revelation: Quantity or Quality of Testimony

In trials witnesses often slant their testimony to advance their interests. To obtain truthful testimony, courts rely on perjury rules. We show that truth-revelation is possible and that perjury rules are not truth-revealing. If the judge uses a truth-revealing mechanism, he will get little testimony because the defendant will not present a witness with unfavorable news; however, testimony is o...

Study Analysis: Revelation of Truth, or Murder by Numbers?

What type of analyses are we to expect when we read a study that attempts to measure success or failure of a specific spine procedure? Most analyses are divided into descriptive and analytical statistics, which should be clearly described in the methods section of a study. Descriptive statistics are most frequently used to provide general information about the patients and factors that may be r...

Focus on the Library Customer: Revelation, Revolution, or Redundancy?

LIBRARIANS EXPERIENCE SOME UNEASE with marketing’s focus on the customer in spite of the centrality of a user focus in defining the profession. By examining different organizational objectives for libraries, the choices librarians make about customer focus and orientation toward marketing become clearer. Ideas from the relatively new field of social marketing reveal the social cause/message hea...

Gender Confirmation Surgery: Cosmetic or Reconstructive Procedure?

Sustainable Development and Mining: Contradiction or Confirmation?

This paper explores the relationship between mining and sustainable development (SD) in South Africa. It examines the progress of mining and its interactions with labour, communities and the environment, the role of South African mining in the world context, and its economic contribution. It reviews the role of the South African Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act in achieving SD. A...