In the previous issue of Critical Care Chenaud and colleagues found that most intensive care unit patients who had given informed consent for their participation in a clinical trial could not recall either the purpose of the trial or its related risks several days later. These findings should remind us that informed consent is a process, not an event, but they should not be interpreted to mean ...

Abstract The most recent guidelines of criminal policy at the European Union level pay particular attention to enhancing forms reparation for harm caused interests as a result crime. Environmental law is not immune this trend and, on contrary, it seems offer fertile ground analysing multiple ways in which remedial conduct may assume relevance various phases punitive process. This paper therefor...

Abstract We provide evidence on earnings management by exploiting temporary exogenous shocks to utility firms’ sales arising from weather variation. find that sample are highly sensitive annual changes in average temperatures the region where firm operates, but this sensitivity disappears quickly as one moves down income statement. This evidence, while indirect, is suggestive of activities. In ...