The Tender Years Doctrine: A Defense

Entrenching the Yoshida Defense Doctrine: Three Techniques for Institutionalization

Japan's level of defense expenditure relative to tbe size of its economy bas long been uniquely low among the major industrialized countries. As of 1995, Japan's expenditures stood at 0.96 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).' Even adding to this tbe approximately 0.3 percent of GDP devoted to pensions for retired personnel, the level of spending is considerably less than that of major West...

Basal cell nevus syndrome presenting as a tender mass of the jaw: A case report

Tender Mercy

If you are an Englishman you will begin by being irritated by Mr. Kaufman?I almost wrote " by having Mr. Kaufman irritate you "?such is the obtrusiveness of the American idiom when the title page has given you no inkling Mr. Kaufman is not London based. But this mere pettifog that carps. The main irritation is the slow build-up of the tale. Mr. Kaufman is in no mood to jag his backcloth with ey...

A Defense of a Monadological Analysis in Leibniz’s Middle Years

Philosophers commonly read The Monadology as a confident assertion of Leibniz’s views about the foundations of his metaphysics. Most agree that during his later years, Leibniz holds that only monads are ultimately real substances. His confidence about what qualifies as a substance is somewhat lacking, however, in texts written in the 1680s and 1690s. As a result, giving an explanation of the fo...

Experiences from a Tender Process

Large IT systems are often acquired in a tender process where the customer states the system requirements, a number of suppliers submit their proposals, and the customer selects one of them. Usually the supplier uses an existing system as basis for his proposal. He adapts it more or less to the customer's requirements. This paper is a study of a specific tender process. The customer was a Danis...