The Great War accelerated the development of neurological knowledge. Many neurological signs and syndromes, as well as new nosological entities such as war psychoneuroses, were described during the conflict. The period between 1914 and 1918 was the first time in which many neurologists were concentrated in wartime neurology centres and confronted with a number of neurological patients never see...

466 www.thelancet.com Vol 370 August 11, 2007 There are several lessons from the recent Ghana experience (panel). The political and sociological aspects of such events are also important. On the internet forum associated with the fi rst press report about the incident, there was massive outpouring of anger, resentment, paranoia, and vitriol. The situation suddenly became the focus for a wide ra...

the causation (tasbib) is a ground of liability in law which leads to compensation of damages in civil law and punishment in criminal law. as causation being discussed in both civil law and criminal law separately, it is generally perceived that the causation in civil law is different from that of criminal law. by reviewing the roots and conditions of causation, it becomes clear that the nature...

The development of critical race theory points to a new direction taken by civil rights activists in the wake of civil rights setbacks in the 1970s and 1980s when ofacial government policy no longer supported an expansive civil rights agenda. The United States Supreme Court began limiting and eviscerating precedents that once promised full equality for African Americans under the law. Critical ...

OBJECTIVES Common mental disorders are associated with impaired functioning and sickness absence. We examine whether sub-clinical as well as clinical psychiatric morbidity predict long spells of sickness absence for both psychiatric and non-psychiatric illness. We also examine whether recent common mental disorders and those present on two occasions have a stronger association with sickness abs...

Beginning from a case, this paper focuses on the discussion of “the invalidity of illegal civil conduct”. From the perspective of comparative law, this paper makes theoretical researches on the effectiveness of civil conduct that breaches the law in content. It chiefly analyzes three issues. What is the law that is breached by the illegal civil conduct? Is the “invalidity” “absolute” or “relati...

j1 Yu Zheng MEng, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, PR China j2 Des Robinson PhD, MRAeS Senior Lecturer, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK j3 Su Taylor PhD, MICE Reader in Structural Engineering, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen’s Uni...

1 Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, 2 Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 4 Department of Civil ...

Facing with the enormous data scale of the civil aviation industry, the vital issue that enterprises must consider is how to manage and make use of data to play its value. In this study, the content of the governance of big data of civil aviation is analyzed and this paper put forward the specific governance of big data resources of civil aviation to provide relevant support of the governance o...

Bogdan Alexandru BUTNARU – PhD Student, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Department of Strength of Materials, Bridges and Tunnels, e-mail: [email protected] Mirela ȘANDRU – PhD Student, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Department of Strength of Materials, Bridges and Tunnels, e-mail: [email protected] Dumitrel FURIȘ Professor, PhD, Technical Un...