as illegal.2 "Unnatural practices" were regarded as a felony in England following Henry VIII's 1533 decree that the "offenders being hereof convict by verdict confession or outlawry shall suffer such paynes ofdeath and losses and penalties oftheir goods chattles debts lands tenaments and hereditaments as felons being accustomed to do accordynge to the order of the Common Lawes of this Realme".3...

The Medicare+Choice program was created by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 (Public Law 105-33), signed into law by President Clinton in August 1997. The legislation changed the method for computing capitation rates paid to Medicare+Choice plans, beginning in January 1998. The initial impact was on managed care plans that had been active prior to the BBA, but new Medicare+Choice plans, whi...

The purpose of this paper is to propose the use of models, theories and laws in bibliometrics and scientometrics to enhance information retrieval processes, especially ranking. A common pattern in many man-made data sets is Lotka’s Law which follows the well-known power-law distributions. These informetric distributions can be used to give an alternative order to large and scattered result sets...

The tracking of a four dimension super chaotic system with unknown parameters and uncertain static functions is researched in this paper and a robust adaptive tracking law is designed according to the Lyapunov stability theorem. Especially, the multi-unknown functions and parameters are solved by designing of adaptive turning law. It is a meaningful method both in theory and in engineering prac...

Global governance is of key concern in the current debate over the workings of the world's computer network, and Brazil has played a notable role in this process, especially after approval of the Marco Civil da Internet (law 12.965, april 23, 2014), which defines Brazil's regulatory framework for the internet. Dubbed the internet bill of rights, this law sets out the principles, guarantees, rig...

Australian criminal law is a matter for states and territories. In relation to abortion, many laws are unclear and outdated, and are inconsistent between states and territories. Doctors practise under time constraints and on a case-by-case basis. Most current laws have grey areas that leave doctors vulnerable to accusations, negative publicity and career damage, especially in the case of late a...