BACKGROUND This article stems from a larger project which considers ways of improving assessments of capacity and judgements about best interests in connection with people with dementia admitted to acute hospitals with respect to decisions about place of residence. AIMS Our aim is to comment on how assessments of residence capacity are actually performed on general hospital wards compared wit...

commercial companies are principally governed by majority rule. notwithstanding, mere application of this decision-making rule does not prevent conflict of interests between shareholders. such a conflict can be observed in three distinct hypotheses: 1- abuse committed by majority shareholders; 2- abuse committed by minority shareholders; 3- abuse committed by holders of equal shares. regardless...

In this paper the role of validity and reliability in the development of physical employment standards (PESs) and the consideration of these factors in determining the final pass/fail criteria for a PES and ultimately the legal defensibility of a PES is examined. Particular attention is paid to the use of subject-matter experts, the levels of evidence used in the establishment of the minimum ac...

Automatic benchmarking of evaluation and repair tools (ERT) has been recently the subject of several studies as there is a growing interest because of legal and commercial issues on Web compliance with different criteria and standards. This paper addresses the development of a description language targeted to formally represent test case metadata. This language was used to develop a WCAG 2.0 te...

We present a constraint programming solution to the problem of generating round-robin schedules for sailing match races. Our schedules satisfy the criteria published by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) governing body for match race pairing lists. We show that some published ISAF schedules are in fact illegal, and present corresponding legal instances and schedules that have not previ...

Literature pertaining to three potential problematic areas in forensic drug urinalysis of amphetamines is reviewed. The first topic involves analytical artifacts causing false positive results for methamphetamine, as well as approaches to instrumental and chemical resolutions. The second topic addresses enantiomeric compositions, including sources, analytical approaches, metabolic mechanisms, a...

In order to carry out a successful commissioning exercise, it is important to plan the activity carefully and make sure all objectives are clear and that procedures are documented properly (Lawson, 1991; Choat, 1993). Certification programs such as LEED have helped promote commissioning and have their own particular criteria (Tseng et al., 2002). Some buildings may require formal validation pro...

Results Major cross-national differences of legal regulations with relevance for clinical practice appeared for the following issues: basic conditions as well as additional criteria for involuntary admission, time periods of decision-taking, patients' right to lodge a complaint, the association between involuntary placement and treatment, regulations referring to specific involuntary treatment ...