The difficulty of developing a theology of the Old Testament Wisdom Literature and of finding its place in the whole of Old Testament theology would be considerably less complex if, instead of those wisdom books which we find in the Old Testament canon, we had those which are found in the Apocrypha, particularly the books of Ben Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon. It seems that the tensions which...

The doctrine of informed consent is evolving. It has taken different routes in different jurisdictions. However, these different paths are converging to a general consensus. The Bolam test, which has been the primary exposition of this doctrine in this country, sets the standard of care as a matter of medical judgement. However, recent cases, particularly Rogers v Whitaker, shift the perspectiv...

The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) has a dual-frame sample design that supplements a standard area-probability frame with a sample of observations drawn from statistical records derived from tax returns. The tax-based frame is stratified on the basis of a “wealth index” constructed largely from observed income flows, with the intent of heavily oversampling wealthy households. Although the SC...

The Palladio Bench is a tool to model, simulate and analyze Palladio Component Model (PCM) instances. However, for the Palladio Bench, no single interface to automate experiments or Application Programming Interface (API) to trigger the simulation of PCM instances and to extract performance prediction results is available. The Descartes Query Language (DQL) is a novel approach of a declarative ...

Courts often hold legislation unconstitutional, but nearly always only part of the statute offends. The problem of partial unconstitutionality is therefore pervasive and persistent. Yet the exclusive doctrinal tool for dealing with this problem—severability doctrine—is deeply flawed. To make matters worse, severability doctrine is purportedly necessary for any workable system of judicial review...

islam has particular style and doctrine about health and treatment that makes it different from other treatment methods. the aim of this article is studying the principles and methods of islamic health treatment and the attitudes of this religion toward appearance of disease caused by material or immaterial factors. this article is review type and it is presented by descriptive analysis method ...

My solution to the problem of Dion and Theon (Burke 1994a) employs the doctrine of sortal essentialism.1 Jim Stone (2002) objects to my solution and proposes to weaken the doctrine so as to block my employment of it. Others question a different element of my solution: the maximality of personhood and thinkerhood. After opposing Stone's weakening of sortal essentialism, and responding in a preli...

introduction: three-dimensional (3d) scanners are widely used in medicine. one of the applications of 3d scanners is the acquisition of anthropometric dimensions for ergonomics and the creation of an anthropometry data bank. the aim of this study was to evaluate the precision and accuracy of a modified 3d scanner fabricated in this study. methods: in this work, a 3d scan of the human body was o...