A simple set of tools can allow inexperienced users to maintain a large PVM system with relative ease. The use of load balancing through the process placement scheme can allow the unobtrusive and efficient use of PVM without complicating the users applications and still allowing them sufficient control. Without using these tools PVM users can cause much disruption to other network users unless ...

I argue that, according to ordinary morality, there is moral inertia, that is, moral pressure to fail to intervene in certain circumstances. Moral inertia is manifested in scenarios with a particular causal structure: deflection scenarios, where a threatening or benefiting process is diverted from a group of people to another. I explain why the deflection structure is essential for moral inerti...

The perpetrators of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) produce symptoms that often result in multiple doctor visits, hospitalizations, incorrect diagnoses, and unnecessary procedures for the victim. Immediate physical harm exists for all suffers of MSBP. However, growing research suggests that there are lasting adverse physical, psychological, and social effects for individual victims of MSBP....

We analyze the design of the optimal price for a firm which is a monopolist at home but competes abroad against foreign firms. The price rule depends on whethere there are economies or diseconomies of scope between home and foreign output and on the relative weights the regulator assigns to foreignand home-earned profits. Informational asymmetry introduces a distortion in the price rule, which ...

AIMS To measure the frequency of syringe borrowing in young Irish injecting drug users (IDUs) and identify associated characteristics. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Addiction treatment services in Dublin. PARTICIPANTS Treated IDUs (N = 246). MEASUREMENTS Data on drug injecting and syringe borrowing in the previous 6 months. FINDINGS The median age was 22 years and the median ...

While the last decade has seen a growth of support for harm reduction around the world, the availability and accessibility of quality harm reduction services in prison settings is uneven and continues to be inadequate compared to the progress achieved in the broader community. This article provides a brief overview of harm reduction in prisons in Catalonia (Spain), Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvi...

OBJECTIVE to study the effectiveness of a psychosocial care program in school continuity of adolescents in social vulnerability. METHODS this was a retrospective cohort study involving 200 adolescents assisted in a multidisciplinary intervention program with harm reduction approach, from 2007 to 2012; the intervention effect was assessed using Poisson regression models. RESULTS 200 adolesce...

Several studies have linked teachers' personality characteristics and sense of efficacy to stress. However, investigating the relationship between these three constructs in this context was limited. This study aims to investigate the relationship between personality, sense of efficacy and perceived stress among Korean teachers. A total of 137 teachers working in elementary, middle, and high sch...

no value, and that actual harm might be done by operating, and enlarged tonsils and adenoids might be left alone or treated by means other than operation. You insinuate that I am in favour of inaction, of allowing the children slowly to become diseased and deaf?you then quote what you describe as an admirable picture postcard, with the object of popularising the operation, which you commend to ...