Reflections on Successor Liability

Comparative Vigilance: A Simple Guide

In this paper we discuss a new tort liability rule, which we call super-symmetric comparative negligence and vigilance. When both injurer and victim in an accident are negligent, it provides for liability shares that depend on the degrees of negligence of the two parties, similar to the standard comparative negligence rule. Unlike standard liability rules, however, when both parties are vigilan...

Robot Ethics: A View from the Philosophy of Science

Robot ethics is a branch of applied ethics which endeavours to isolate and analyse ethical issues arising in connection with present and prospective uses of robots. These issues span human autonomy protection and promotion, moral responsibility and liability, privacy, fair access to technological resources, social and cultural discrimination, in addition to the ethical dimensions of personhood ...

Some Reflections on Intracytoplasmic Morphologically Selected Sperm Injection

XIII Gene–Environment Interactions

Most genetic-epidemiological approaches used in the study of the aetiology of individual differences in psychiatric disease in humans assume that the effects of genes and environment are additive. That is, it is assumed that the effect of an environmental risk factor does not depend on the genotype of the individual, or, stated differently, that the expression of the genotype does not depend on...

Impact of Family Business Characteristics on Succession Planning: A Case Study in Tehran Industrial Towns

Successor planning process in family businesses is recognized as one of the most important phases of family business lifecycle. Family businesses play a vital role in developing regional and global economy and fuel the creation of new jobs, new business growth and increase in entrepreneurial activities. In this study, it was attempted to investigate the impact of family business characteristics...