In the mid-20th century, concern over the declining role of the general practitioner as medical knowledge rapidly expanded and specialization flourished stimulated the Canadian Medical Association and some visionary general practitioners to found the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). Development of CFPC Certification in 1969 brought clarity to the role of family physician. During t...

Cyber safety has become critically important to all who are active in cyber space. In most African countries no coordinated activities in this regard are taking place, even though many children are already active on cyber space. This paper presents an introductory, but usable, guide to empower primary school teachers, specifically in Africa, to impart the basic principles of cyber safety to the...

A technical limitation of today’s mobile phones is that they are designed for a narrow set of primary use cases. This is one of the reasons why the majority of mobile phones are disposed of or relegated to the drawer even though they are fully functional. In this paper we argue that future mobile devices should be designed to support use cases beyond their primary purpose. We motivate and explo...

The basic idea in PRINCIPLES AND PARAMETERS THEORY is to distinguish the invariants of human language (the principles) from the major points of crosslinguistic variation (the parameters). Both principles and parameters are taken to reflect innately determined, biological characteristics of the human brain (see UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR). In the course of normal child development, however, the two diver...

The author highlights the importance of emotions in all ethical reflections. He describes the most common positions of ethicists employing duties and rights as the basis for ethical thought. The author, goes to Freudian theory as viewed by the utilitarians, stating that the 'quest for pleasure' is not necessarily egocentric, especially for adults. For example, the feeling of solidarity emerges ...

The above approaches certainly have their place but also have their limitations. The repeated invocation of archival material tends to create an impression that ethical edicts are merely of historical significance and are irrelevant today. Some of the historical texts on medical ethics are based on morality, at times even bordering on the spiritual or the religious. This could be a hindrance to...

Remnant low-energy effects of Planck-scale Lorentz breaking in candidate fundamental theories typically include modified one-particle dispersion relations. Theoretical constraints on such modifications are discussed leading to the exclusion of a variety of previously considered Lorentz-violating parameters. In particular, the fundamental principle of coordinate independence, the role of an effe...

1 Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081A, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Computer and Law Institute Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands 3 The Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatization Faculty of Law, Tilburg University Warandelaan 2, 5000...

Chakraborty, Ankur. M.S., Purdue University, May, 2010. Providing Availability on the Poly^2 Framework. Major Professor: Eugene Spafford, Melissa Dark. Availability is not often a primary concern for frameworks meant to provide security. Poly^2 is one such framework. It provides us with a hardened foundation based on secure design principles to run mission-critical services. While, the primary ...

This report summarizes the Fifth Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 2009), which was held in conjunction with the SOSP 2009 conference. This report presents the motivation for holding the workshop and summarizes the workshop contributions.