The Neighborhood Law Office Experiment

Plato in Farabi's Office: Search for the Roots of Medical Law in Two Ideal Societies

From Plato to Farabi, and even to this day, man has been searching for earthly paradise. Both philosophers sought utopia. It seems that the disagreement of thinkers and purgatory with the seemingly incompatible ideal of the mental ideal and the objective gloomy reality has made it impossible for human beings to easily achieve the ideal utopia. Clarifying the differences between thinkers and the...

Inverse - Square Law Experiment in Space

After presenting a very brief outline of this flight program, this paper will dwell in more detail on the key challenges that must be met for successful flight. These include the comparison of the frequency of the PARCS cesium clock with Earth-bound cesium clocks using the GPS carrier-phase method, the implementation of the phase modulation scheme needed to minimize the impact of space-station ...

[Mental health, rights and citizenship: the law office as an agent for social inclusion].

The Psychiatric Reform discusses issues related to the inclusion of individuals that suffer from mental disorders, having as its main project the construction of citizenship through the reconstruction of their rights and recognizing that mentally ill individuals are in a condition of exclusion because of their very condition, the work and the social fragility. The Centro de Atenção Psicossocial...

Capturing and Restoring the Context of Everyday Work: A Case Study at a Law Office

Real-world activity is complex and increasingly involves use of multiple computer applications and communication devices over extended periods of time. To understand activity at the level of detail required to provide natural and comprehensive support for it necessitates appreciating both its richness and dynamically changing context. In this article, we (1) summarize field work in which we rec...

Very Preliminary Not for quotation or citation. Are Neighborhood Effects Nonlinear? Estimates from the MTO Experiment