a group more predisposed to agree with the clinicians in their judgments about what constitutes inappropriate care. Second, at the same time that the Texas law grants this sweeping authority to ethics committees, it precludes any possibility of an appeal to the judicial system. Judges are authorized only to grant extensions of the decision (and even then only if necessary to find an alternative...

Recently proposed low scale quantum gravity scenario is expected to have a significant impact on the Mirror World hypothesis. Some aspects of this influence is investigated here, assuming that the fundamental gravity scale is near a TeV. It is shown that future colliders will be capable to produce the mirror matter, but an experimental signature, which will distinguish such events from the back...

Chloroplasts are the co-evolution product of three different genetic compartments. This review compiles reports about bacteria and various photosynthetically active eukaryotes that challenge our current view on the structure of chloroplasts. It highlights their structurally dynamic nature and their differences in various groups of the Archaeplastida. Based on these reports, it argues in favor o...

Most research in labor economics concerning Þrm size has focused on the size-wage puzzle, but little attention has been paid to the differences in hiring practices and wage structures between large and small Þrms. In this paper, I use data from the BeneÞts Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS) to demonstrate that large Þrms hire younger workers than small Þrms do, especially for whi...

This study examined the relationship between allegations of maltreatment and substance abuse, and custody awards in Florida. Information concerning the presence, or absence, of these reports was collected on 60 contested initial disposition, or disposition modification cases, and was used to model judicial decision-making. Substantiated reports of child and spouse abuse occurred very infrequent...

Model checking is an automatic technique for software verification through which all reachable states are generated from an initial state to finding errors and desirable patterns. In the model checking approach, the behavior and structure of system should be modeled. Graph transformation system is a graphical formal modeling language to specify and model the system. However, modeling of large s...