Background & objectives: Oil well drilling operations are subject to various occupational hazards because of their nature and type of activities, which causes illnesses, loss of workforce as well as a lot of financial losses to the economic system of the community. Therefore, it is essential for all employees to observe safety in order to protect manpower and equipment. The purpose of this stud...

Incomplete coronary artery revascularization could increase the risk of death, myocardial infarction, repeat revascularization, and lifestyle-limiting angina. Data to support this hypothesis extend back to the early 1980s, when patients with incomplete surgical revascularization had an absolute 15% reduction in 5-year survival in comparison with patients with complete revascularization.1,2 This...

We show time hierarchies for reasonable semantic classes without advice by eliminating the constant bits of advice in previous results.The elimination is done by a contrapositive argument that for any reasonable computational model,let CTIME(f(n))/g(n) denote the set of all languages decide by machines running in time O(f(n)) with advice of g(n) bits in that model, if CTIME(t(n)) ⊆ CTIME(T (n))...

On March 23, 2010 President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which included an amendment to Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This amendment requires employers to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child’s birth, each time the employee has a need to do so. Employers ...

The aim of this study was to analyse how the patient is constructed and socially positioned in Swedish information. Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis methodology utilised on a sample 56 online information texts about cancer containing total 126,711 words. findings show an overarching informed consent guided by specific features produce norm that we name “the reasonable patient”, who r...

We present a short new proof of Cobham's theorem without using Kronecker's approximation theorem, making it suitable for generalization beyond automatic sequences.

In view of the plethora of different argumentation semantics, we consider the question what the essential properties of a “reasonable” semantics are. We discuss three attempts of such a characterization, based on computational complexity, logical expressivity and invariance under partial duplication, which are satisfied by most, if not all, known semantics. We then challenge each of these propo...

Traditionally, courts interpreting written contracts focused primarily on the contract's language. Consideration of factors beyond the "four corners" of the document was discouraged. Modern courts construing standard form insurance contracts have deviated from this course and begun aiding the insured against the insurer. One of the methods used to tilt insurance disputes in favor of the insured...