Anne Grinyer is a lecturer in the Institute for Health Research and in the School of Independent Studies at Lancaster University. She is a sociologist of health and illness and has a special interest in the construction of scientific and medical knowledge, the management of health risks and in qualitative research methods. She has recently written a book on young adults with cancer based on nar...

Sierra Legal is filing this Notice of Objection on behalf of the David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence, and the Canadian Environmental Law Association, pursuant to sections 332(2) and 333 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 to the Minister of the Environment, the Hon. John Baird, with respect to the proposed Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers Regulations. The proposed regula...

The ACT Alliance was formed with the vision that the ACT Alliance, united in the common task for Christians to manifest God’s unconditional love for all people, works towards a world community where all God’s creation lives with dignity, justice, peace and full respect for human rights and the environment. This vision reflects a theological understanding of who we are as an ACT Alliance, and de...

Looking solely at the legislation, one could claim that the Dutch higher education system has been officially known as a binary system since 1986. At that moment the higher professional education sector was taken out of secondary education and received separate legislation (HBO Act), formally becoming part of higher education. However, one could also argue that the general idea of the existence...

Center for Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications, School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, U.K. Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia National ICT Australia Ltd., Locked Bag 8001, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

law. This legislation clarifies the Superfund Act to ensure that the product of scrap recycling is not subject to Superfund liability if certain standards are met. S. 607 does not exempt from Superfund liability recyclers who operate contaminated facilities. Nor does it exempt from Superfund contamination caused in whole or in part by waste generated during the course of processing recycled mat...

From a cultural psychology perspective, Gauvain (1998) found evidence of folk psychological variations in adulthood to be of great import, whereas Wellman (1998), from a theory of mind perspective, argued that it has little bearing on the issues that drive the theory of mind enterprise. Here I discuss several reasons why this adult evidence is relevant. One prima facie reason is that the compar...