The Simple Counterfactual Analysis (SCA) was once considered the most promising analysis of disposition ascriptions. According to SCA, disposition ascriptions are to be analyzed in terms of counterfactual conditionals. In the last few decades, however, SCA has become the target of a battery of counterexamples. In all counterexamples, something seems to be interfering with a certain object’s hav...

Purpose: To determine factors associated with patient disposition status other than discharge to their customary residence (DCR) after elective, ambulatory inguinal hernia repair (IHR). Materials and methods: N= 7953 patients who underwent IHR were identified in the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS). Disposition status was examined by age, sex, race, type of anesthetic, anesthesia pr...

Liver disease changes the disposition properties of drugs, complicating drug therapy management. We present normal and "diseased" versions of an abstract, agent-oriented In Silico Livers (ISLs), and validate their mechanisms against disposition data from perfused normal and diseased rat livers. Dynamic tracing features enabled spatiotemporal tracing of differences in dispositional events for di...

Enterprise IT asset disposition is one important contributing dimension to green IT initiatives adopted by organizations. IT asset disposition services aim to maximize the value of the IT asset investment of enterprises over its entire lifecycle while guaranteeing data security and protecting against environmental liability. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the practice of IT asset dis...

Sir, I read with great interest the study by Malhotra et al.(1999, 41, 111-121). This study was designed to evaluate the symptomatology and clinical variables of hyperkinetic conduct disorder (HCD) and compare it with conduct disorder (CD) and also to determine the clinical variables that can discriminate these two disorders as a validation of HCD as a category. However, this study merits certa...

the principle of party-disposition (or what is called “le principe dispositif” in the french law) is one of the guiding principles for civil trial. according to this principle, the civil proceeding is regarded as the parties’s thing, so they can make any disposition on their proceeding, inter alia they are be able to commence and terminate it, determine the matters of fact and finally judge is ...

Research on subjective well-being suggests that it is only partly a function of environmental circumstances. There may be a personality characteristic or a resilient disposition toward experiencing high levels of well-being even in unfavorable circumstances. Adult attachment may contribute to this resilient disposition. This study examined whether the association between attachment anxiety and ...

OBJECTIVE Efforts were made to examine drinking-driving recidivism in relation to arrest context and subsequent case disposition. Three specific hypotheses were tested, regarding blood alcohol concentration, time of arrest and sanctions. METHOD Complete 1989, 1990 and 1991 traffic ticket files from the New York State police were the baseline data for the study. RESULTS Analyses show that hi...

The purpose of this article has been to explore why ethnic conflicts tend to break out in all ethnically divided societies. The principal explanation was traced to the evolved disposition for ethnic nepotism shared by all human populations. Ethnic nepotism was measured roughly by the degree of ethnic heterogeneity of the populations. It was correlated with the scale of ethnic conflicts in the g...

New York's Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield conversion from nonprofit to for-profit form has considerable legal significance. Three aspects of the conversion make the case unique: the role of the state legislature in directing the disposition of the conversion assets, the fact that it made itself the primary beneficiary of those assets, and the actions of the state attorney general defending t...