The paper provides an insight into the institutional system of EU external relations, focusing on the role of the European Parliament. It argues that the current intergovernmental set-up of the CFSP is one of the major reasons for EU international under-performance. Against this background, the paper discusses the potential benefits of the ‘parlimentarisation’ of this policy area, implying deep...

duction to the study and criticism of epidemiological research in Psychiatry. This is particularly valuable at the present time when great interest is being aroused in the subject, not only in the public hut also in other branches of medicine : for pressure is likely to be Put on the research worker to provide more results than he can reliably do : and it is also probable that any results produ...

Central MessageMitochondrial transplantation is promising but needs to be vetted more prior clinical application.See Article page e111. Mitochondrial application. See There an everlasting argument between science and religion about the origin of humans that continues date. The extremely complex intelligent design human being, which by large mystify scientists, a commonly used for divine creatio...

(Abstract: This paper argues that the proposed East Asian Community is an imagined community. To describe it this way is not to dismiss it as an illusion, or to deny its potential for transforming East Asia’s future, but to emphasize the bold aspirations that underlie the notion, aspirations which seek to transcend powerful physical, political and even cultural barriers confronting them. The im...

Steady advances in neuroscience have shaped understanding of brain and mind, ways that challenge spiritual belief can amplify misconceptions about biological determinism. The inability to reconcile spirituality science risks faith being construed as “out touch” with reality, worst-case scenarios engendering clinical-level crises hope. latter typically involve three central issues: the free will...

Organisms can greatly affect their environments, and the feedback coupling between organisms and their environments can shape the evolution of both. Beyond these generally accepted facts, the Gaia hypothesis advances three central propositions: (1) that biologically mediated feedbacks contribute to environmental homeostasis, (2) that they make the environment more suitable for life, and (3) tha...

An experiment tested whether and in what circumstances people are more likely to believe an event simply because it makes them better off. Subjects observed a financial asset's historical price chart, and received both an accuracy bonus for predicting the price at some future point, and an unconditional award that was either increasing or decreasing in this price. Despite incentives for hedging...

As managed care gains increasing influence over the American health financing system, economic pressures and emerging market realities have created a fertile climate for wishful thinking on the part of hospital executives and physicians. Rather than accept the inevitability of reducing excess capacity and incomes, providers cling to self-serving myths about managed care's strategic direction. H...