the reason why children are more prone to a dog bite is elusive. some propose the theory that a young child who is playing can be interpreted as aggressive by the dog. however, the fact that in some reports children were killed by dogs while asleep proves that this theory does not hold in all cases. in this case, a 9-year-old boy was attacked by 8 different races of dogs escaping from a serolog...

What implications does a dirty-handed politician‟s assertion that dirty hands are necessary for certain political achievements have on our understanding of the relationship between political actors and the political community? The problem of dirty hands, as described in Michael Walzer‟s “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands,” occurs when a political actor finds that he must transgress o...

This paper employs a three-stage approach to estimate low carbon economy efficiency in the largest twenty CO₂ emitting countries from 2000 to 2012. The approach includes the following three stages: (1) use of a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with undesirable output to estimate the low carbon economy efficiency and calculate the input and output slacks; (2) use of a stochastic frontier ap...