punitive damages are not compensation for injury and is levied to punish reprehensible conduct of defendant and to deter its future occurrence. common law is the base of this approach. according to the u.k. house of lords, there are some restrictions in levying this kind of damage. these restrictions have been fully respected by the courts of all the commonwealth states except australia and the...

Background This article conducts a comparative national and subnational government analysis of the political, economic, and ideational constructivist contextual factors facilitating the adoption of obesity and diabetes policy.   Methods We adopt a nested analytical approach to policy analysis, which combines cross-national statistical analysis with subnational case study comparisons to examine...

poverty is a widespread problem not only inflicting poor nations, but also nations like the united states of america. in the history of the united states, women and racial minorities had always been persistently struggling with poverty. this paper intends to investigate poverty among hispanic women between 2005 and 2010 and identify and analyze the relevant contributing factors. within this per...

introduction: cancer research is one of the essential activities for its control and treatment. hospital based cancer registry system is an information system designed to collect, organize and analyze data on cancer. the objective of the present study was to compare hospital based cancer registry system in iran with that in the usa. methods: this research was a comparative study. studied popula...

in the present study, competitiveness of iranian pistachio exports and competitor countries in  the world market are studied. pistachio export advantage using indices of revealed comparative advantage (rca) approach and vector error correction model(vecm) based on  agricultural and non-petroleum export commodity basket were investigated separately. the results showed that iran has a comparative...

ensuring the security in civil aviation - as a primary factor in economical and industrial development - is the major concern of international community. pursuant to the serious challenges in this sector after terrorist events of 11 september 2001 in the united states, international civil aviation organization (icao) as the most important organization relating to the international civil aviatio...

background: ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. public health ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. the primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools o...