Although business intelligence (BI) solutions have been a longstanding topic of major interest in private sector, public administrations (PA), however, took only first steps towards strategic management. While PA are obliged to implement new public management (NPM) approaches, such as new accounting systems or an output-oriented management, to collect managementrelevant data, there is little su...

An important aspect of health professional's duty of care is to advise patients of the available options of treatment so that the patient can choose the form of treatment that suits her or his requirements. As CAM becomes more evidence-based and accepted, medical doctors need to consider the extent to which they should provide patients with information about those types of treatments. If a CAM ...

A multitude of problem-oriented programming languages are being created in order to facilitate programming in various fields.Th~se languages have two advantages for non-programmers who need a computer for solving their problems: I. they are not forced to spend much time on learning a complicated machine language; 2. they do not necessarily have to alter their programs when they are obliged to u...

Bank capital regulation seems to be today’s most accepted regulatory instrument. The reasoning is that limited liability and deposit insurance appear to give banks incentives for excessive risktaking. Capital requirements can alleviate this problem as banks are obliged to hold more capital which forces them to have more of their own funds at risk. But the theoretical literature has much more to...

or almost impossible to find vacancies in Certified Institutions for low grade or troublesome defectives. Mental Hospitals and Public Assistance Institutions are unwillingly obliged to receive these cases. Local Authorities are well aware of the harm and hardships which ensue from the retention of this type of patient in Public Assistance Institutions. The Board of Control require that Mental D...

Reviewed by Stathis Psillos, University of Athens In his address to the Fourth International Congress of Philosophy held at Bologna in 1911, Henri Bergson noted that "a philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said". This single thing, he added, being "a thought which brings something new into...

as a beam of light. It! reveals a system which?with certain honourable exceptions ?s degrading, unhygienic and inefficient. The authors are intelligent and observant women. Some of the orders they received were baffling and frustrating, and some were downright scandalous. Prisoners were obliged to carry 50 lb. bags of sugar, to man-handle enormously heavy barrels. and to move back-breaking load...

N apparent ethical dilemma arises when physicians consider enrolling their patients in randomized clinical trials. Suppose that a randomized clinical trial comparing two treatments is in progress, and a physician has an opinion about which treatment is better. The physician has a duty to promote the patient’s best medical interests and therefore seems to be obliged to advise the patient to rece...

According to the regulations for international competitions all organizers of international championships and competitions are obliged to carry out doping control tests (blood tests, urine tests etc.) on athletes. The administration of hormones to athletes with the intention of improving performance has been a common practice for many years, and in the last ten years this practice has reached s...

Franz Huber’s (2008) attempt to unify inductivist and hypothetico-deductivist intuitions on confirmation by means of a single measure are examined and compared with previous work on the theory of verisimilitude or truthlikeness. The idea of connecting ‘the logic of confirmation’ with ‘the logic of acceptability’ is also critically discussed, and it is argued that ‘acceptability’ takes necessari...