Countries are increasingly using tax policy as an instrument to navigate through the recent global financial difficulties, and China is no exception. In an effort to avoid the loss of tax revenue resulting from the utilization of foreign holding companies, the Chinese tax authority issued Circular 698 granting itself the authority to tax transactions between foreign entities taking place outsid...

Contemporary cardiology is revealing a growing interest in prevention, particularly in the field of atherosclerosis. This is due in part to the availability of new therapeutic tools that have proved to be effective for both primary and secondary prevention. Latin America is therefore faced with the challenge of defining new prevention strategies. Such strategies ought to consider issues such as...

Since Paul Broca, the relationship between mind and brain has been the central preoccupation of cognitive neuroscience. In the 19th century, recognition that mental faculties might be understood by observations of individuals with brain damage led to vigorous debates about the properties of mind. By the end of the First World War, neurologists had outlined basic frameworks for the neural organi...

issues. The question is whether the patient has the ability to understand her choices of the moment and to be reasonably consistent in reflecting her preferences. A person who is not fully able to understand all the risks and potential outcomes of surgery or a complex illness may well be competent to decide that she wants no more aggressive care, or that she wants “everything done.” A person do...

the following questions were discussed in the round table, and the commission votes as follows: 459- with the supposition of the death of defendant after issuing absent vote and protesting by the heirs, if the protested verdict finally gets certain against the heirs, is it possible to apply article 2 of the execution of financial convictions’ law against the heirs? opinion of minority of votes ...

Much of cognitive science seeks to provide principled descriptions of various kinds and aspects of rational behaviour, especially in beings like us or AI simulacra of beings like us. For the most part, these investigators presuppose an unarticulated common sense appreciation of the rationality that such behaviour consists in. On those occasions when they undertake to bring the relevant norms to...

This report examines the use of higraphs as a means of representing dependencies and relationships among multiple aspects of system development models (e.g., requirements, hardware, software, testing concerns). We show how some well-known diagram types in UML have counterpart higraph representations, how these models incorporate hierarchy and orthogonality, and how each model can be connected t...

Much of cognitive science seeks to provide principled descriptions of various kinds and aspects of rational behaviour, especially in beings like us or AI simulacra of beings like us. For the most part, these investigators presuppose an unarticulated common sense appreciation of the rationality that such behaviour consists in. On those occasions when they undertake to bring the relevant norms to...

This report examines the use of higraphs as a means of representing dependencies and relationships among multiple aspects of system development models (e.g., requirements, hardware, software, testing concerns). We show how some well-known diagram types in UML have counterpart higraph representations, how these models incorporate hierarchy and orthogonality, and how each model can be connected t...