Along with ethical considerations, compelling an individual to donate organs, tissues, or bodily fluids brings several legal doctrines into conflict. The privacy of one's body is generally considered sacrosanct by American courts, which have upheld a competent adult's right to refuse medical procedures, even in cases when they are necessary to save the life of another. Although medical and lega...

studies addressing such concepts as place, sense of place, place attachment, place identity, place dependence, rootedness, genius loci, topophilia, and place-making can be found in count-less disciplinary and applied fields devoted to the design, planning, stewardship, and restoration of places that vary in kind and scale from homes, neighborhoods, and cities to parks, and ecosystems. this arti...

research on pre-task planning has revealed that planned conditions have produced more fluent and complex language than unplanned conditions. to date, most of these studies have investigated the effects of individual planning on language production while collaborative planning has received scant attention. to determine the effects of pre-task planning on second language written production, the p...

Background & Aims: Pornography in cyberspace is one of the emerging and multidimensional challenges in society. Each discipline offers different criteria, reasons, perspectives and solutions according to their point of view; But this multidimensional phenomenon has involved all aspects of human societies in individual and group dimensions and has left negative consequences. The aims of this stu...

Our legal expert system KONTERM contains a selective thesaurus and a knowledge base for the automatic representation of the structure and the contents of the document. The thesaurus takes into account the necessary degree of formalism of legal language and therefore overcomes the untidiness of natural language and represents automatically the expert knowledge of a lawyer about legal terminology...