When a great profession and the forces of capitalism interact, drama is likely to result. This has certainly been the case where the profession of medicine and the pharmaceutical industry are concerned. On display in the relationship between doctors and drug companies are the grandeur and weaknesses of the medical profession — its noble aspirations and its continuing inability to fulfill them. ...

Possibly the most significant recent development in criminology, especially since World War II, has been the emergence of the concept "white-collar" crime as an area of scientific inquiry and theoretical speculation. It is true, of course, that this crime itself is not wholly new; robber barons have been exposed in the past, and muckrakers have long decried corruption and venality in high place...

Submitted for the MAR14 Meeting of The American Physical Society Possibilities of a test of the temporal Bell inequalities using a flux qubit coupling to a dcSQUID1 MAO-CHUANG YEH, ANTHONY J. LEGGETT, Univ of Illinois Urbana — Although then last few years have seen tests of the temporal Bell inequalities (TBI) on microscopic systems with the use of “ideal negative result” (INR) measurements [1]...

The aim of the research is to identify semantic models humorous utterances that express stereotypical ideas lawyers’ professional community about content categories its participants in informal settings. methodology integrates two approaches: a critical analysis discourse and approach humour based on scripts by Salvatore Attardo Victor Raskin. We applied following model: (1) discursive texts ac...

You must have surely seen that our good friend Dr C. Quince, has been given yet another huge grant from The Thanatology Foundation for a large project to find human genes for avarice and venality. The factories keep on multiplying and growing and I hope you are never tempted to acquire a dark, satanic mill of your own and join the band of new alchemists who turn gold into base pairs. Some histo...

abolghasem payandeh owes much of his fame to his valuable translation of the holy quran as well as his journalistic works. as an isfahani story-telling writer, however, he has not been accounted for in the literary history of iran. his stories mainly follow the structure of the writings of the past and are somehow apart from the modern storytelling experience. the settings of his stories usuall...