among the topics discussed in books of jurisprudence is denial of knowledge, which is considered as a subdivision of taking oath based on issue. regardless of the originality of oath on denying knowledge, substantial disagreement is discernible in jurisprudence as regards the establishment of legal provisions on this type oath-taking, very few of which opinions have influenced jurists in this f...

The national health department’s director of Labour Relations, Advocate Thomas Ngake, claimed the probe involved ‘a web’ connecting Home Affairs, the Health Professions Council and his own Foreign Workforce Management Programme (FWMP). He confirmed that the chief suspect was in mid-July being grilled at a separate in-camera internal disciplinary hearing following a forensic probe ‘dating back o...

This paper attempts to investigate the adolescent narrator’s journey into adulthood in Ahmad Mahmoud’s The Neighbor. Considering the central character’s growth into adulthood, the paper argues that the compulsory military service can be fulfilled as a certain ‘rite of passage’ conventionalized within the society, as represented in the narrative. That is because, through this convention, Khaled ...

In a recent paper, Sheinvald compared a cumulant matching criterion to three simplified criteria that he claimed to be equivalent. We show that two simplified criteria can be viewed as direct consequences of a result already published and that their equivalence must be revised. We also give additional references of closely related works that have been omitted, some of them presenting Jacobi-lik...

Syphilis of the heart can be divided into two distinct groups. In the first, there is diffuse inflammatory reaction with interstitial connective tissue proliferation and fibrosis; this was described by Warthin (1925) as syphilitic myocarditis. He claimed to have demonstrated Treponema -pallidum in such lesions. However, many others working on the same subject have not succeeded in demonstrating...

The mid 20 century witnessed some serious attempts in studies of play and games with an emphasis on their importance within culture. Most prominently, Johan Huizinga (1944) maintained in his book Homo Ludens that the earliest stage of culture is in the form of play and that culture proceeds in the shape and the mood of play. He also claimed that some elements of play crystallised as knowledge s...