The term “plea bargaining”has become a label often used to describe a series of disparate mechanisms to investigate,prosecute,and adjudicate criminal liability. For some,plea bargaining is the indispensable tool to address criminal conduct,while for others it has become a symbol of coercion and injustice. The purpose of this Article will be to distinguish the very different mechanisms that are ...

Different attempts have been made to answer Reich's question why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike. The two most influential approaches have been the ideological one and the gunman theory. The gunman theory seems to have the upper hand in that it not only explains many cases of successful oppression by a minority of a m...

Rheumatic conditions have affected, among others, emperors, kings, politicians, religious personages and artists. Knowledge about their articular illnesses has increased with a multiplicity of source documents on these personalities: ancient texts, letters, drawings, paintings, sculptures, songs and pictures. Here the case of the most important Brazilian visual artist is described, namely the s...

a portrait of the artist as a young man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly aquinas’s mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like bruno and saint augustine, joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. he, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, an...

Two n e w modes of real-t ime collision avoidance are presented wh.ich aid in the e.ffectiveness of remote tele-operation. S t i cky coll ision mode improves s y s t e m safety by disallowing contact wi th modelled obstacles. Slippery mode is used t o improve the eff iciency of -the process by reducing t h e required level of operator skill. B o t h modes execute an real-t ime and have been amp...

China is a country that is arousing a large amount of interest as a new mega-market, as it opens itself to a market-orientated economy and expands at a remarkable rate. However, the influx of international investment, new business opportunities and advertising from overseas has seen Chinese consumers being exposed to potentially offensive advertising products and images. While some products and...