The Internet now provides a myriad of new ways to interact that eliminate physical distance, time, and even culture and language as factors affecting the development, maintenance, evolution, and even power of social networks. In these new social spaces, concepts such as privacy, property rights, and social mores that have developed over thousands of years in physical societies are being vetted ...

Sir Dugald Baird sketches the history of abortion legislation in Great Britain from the beginning of the century. In his views the 1967 Abortion Act has been one of the most important and beneficial pieces of social legislation enacted in Britain in the last 100 years. It has, however, brought problems both of administration in the hospitals and to individual doctors and nurses, particularly wh...

In this paper, we address the problem of design a wavelet lossy image coder that allows preservation of image features such as edges using a modified version of SPIHT algorithm. The modification is made by changing the concept of pixel significance, a coefficient is selected not only by magnitude but as part of a Feature Of Interest (FOI) map obtained with SUSAN edge detector and mapping the co...

Folly, as defined by Barbara Tuchman, is “the pursuit of policy contrary to the self-interest of the constituency or state involved . . . folly is a policy that is counter-productive.” Current trends in cancer incidence and mortality rates, education, research, and societal mores and views combine to present a number of antithetical propositions. A review of these propositions highlights the ne...

"Soul surfers" consider surfing to be a profoundly meaningful practice that brings physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. They generally agree on where surfing initially developed, that it assumed a religious character, was suppressed for religious reasons, has been undergoing a revival, and enjoins reverence for and protection of nature. This subset of the global surfing community sh...

There are potentially significant absences in Professor Fonagy’s otherwise illuminating editorial on the developmental aspects of violence, and he neglects to consider other related theories (Fonagy, 2003). The word ‘father’ does not appear in his review and this would seem a major absence in the context of research showing consistent absences of stable paternal figures in those exhibiting anti...

There are potentially significant absences in Professor Fonagy’s otherwise illuminating editorial on the developmental aspects of violence, and he neglects to consider other related theories (Fonagy, 2003). The word ‘father’ does not appear in his review and this would seem a major absence in the context of research showing consistent absences of stable paternal figures in those exhibiting anti...

The millennium marks the beginning of a second century for the formal system of juvenile justice in the United States. From its inception, the central focus of the system has been delinquency, an amorphous construct that includes not only “criminal” behavior but also an array of youthful actions that offend prevailing social mores. Thus, the meaning of delinquency is markedly time dependent. Li...

There are potentially significant absences in Professor Fonagy’s otherwise illuminating editorial on the developmental aspects of violence, and he neglects to consider other related theories (Fonagy, 2003). The word ‘father’ does not appear in his review and this would seem a major absence in the context of research showing consistent absences of stable paternal figures in those exhibiting anti...

At a time when the medical field is dominated by the pressures of private insurance demands and government regulations, many people discover they need to be self advocates in order to battle illness and regain their health. Moreover, these issues are not constant, as many countries (like the USA) face changing demographics and continuing radical changes in healthcare funding. These conditions r...