Tomorrow, might there be glory

"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

Might Not Be a Tomorrow”: A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of “futurelessness,” as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of future bene...

Introductory Programming: What's Happening Today and Will There Be Anyone to Teach Tomorrow ?

This paper reports the findings of a census of introductory programming courses. Eighty five courses from Australian and New Zealand universities are included. The census aims to discover languages and paradigms taught, tools used, texts employed, method of delivery to on-campus students, instructor experience and how problem solving strategies are taught. Of note in the 2003 census is the redu...

Wondering What Might Be

This paper explores the possibility of supplementing the suppositional view of indicative conditionals with a corresponding view of epistemic modals. The most striking feature of the suppositional view consists in its claim that indicative conditionals are to be evaluated by conditional probabilities. On the basis of a natural link between indicative conditionals and epistemic modals, a corresp...

Manipulating nature: Might there be a cardiovascular price to pay for the miracle of assisted conception?

Might There Be a Cardiovascular Price to Pay for the Miracle of Assisted Conception?

Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have brought the miracle of childbirth to literally hundreds of thousands of adults who would otherwise not have conceived children; indeed, it is now estimated that 1% to 3% of all births in many developed nations involve ARTs.1 The first ART birth, however, was not until 1978, and so even the oldest such offspring are only now entering young adult lif...