In his book The Law of Peoples, John Rawls adds an eighth law to his previous account: peoples have a duty to assist other peoples living under unfavorable conditions that prevent their having a just or decent political and social regime.” This addition is meant to show that Rawls’ proposal can give a plausible account of global economic justice, albeit a less egalitarian one than his cosmopoli...

The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the physical anthropology of the Finns and Saami, comparing them with other Scandinavian peoples and contrasting them genetically with the Mongoloid peoples of Asia, notwithstanding the affinities which link the Finnish language with the Uralic and to a lesser extent the Altaic languages. He concludes that both the Finns and the Saami are genetica...

tain or discharge as they please, and he is aware of the very real risk of discrediting the role of psychology if too much is claimed for it. '' A great dis-service to future -progress may result unless zeal is combined with prudence and sound judgment. We must accept the fact that we may learn much about the psychological factors associated with criminal conduct and yet fail to help the crimin...

It is still unclear what metacognition is. Two main theories about metacognition are reviewed, each of which claims to provide a better explanation of the phenomenon, while discrediting the other theory as inappropriate. My claim is that in order to do justice to the complex phenomenon of metacognition, we must distinguish two levels of this capacity. It can be shown that each of these theories...

Population ageing has led to an increase in the prevalence of dementia in Hong Kong. While the degenerative process for dementia spans over years, in a proportion of subjects the cognitive impairment is associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms. Stigmatisation to dementia as a result of the neuropsychiatric symptoms is a significant barrier to seeking early help. Stigma is broadly defined as an...

the court orders, inter alia, the provisional injunctions, are normally aimed to impose some specific result on the parties to a proceeding. provisional measures including interim injunctions are somehow connected to the general standards of fair proceeding. the question might be how a proceeding could be assessed as being fair while an interim injunction is being issued against one of the part...

BACKGROUND COPD among Aboriginal peoples in Canada is a major public health concern. This study was conducted in order to determine the prevalence and association between certain risk factors and COPD among the 35-year-old or older Aboriginal peoples in Canada. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study. It uses data from Statistics Canada's Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS), 2012. It consists of ...

Indigenous peoples living with HIV are less likely than non-Indigenous peoples living with HIV to access antiretroviral therapy; however, there is not enough contextual information surrounding this issue. The Indigenous Red Ribbon Storytelling Study was conducted in part to examine how Indigenous peoples living with HIV construct and understand their experiences accessing antiretroviral therapy...

Conflicts that occur between The Indigenous Peoples of Toruakat and PT. Bulawan Daya Lestari, in Bolaang Mongondow – North Sulawesi, which resulted 1 (one) indigenous person being killed 4 (four) other people injured, can be said to reveal the fact Government cannot present protect peoples. Protection, fulfillment, recognition peoples should related substance human rights Constitution Republic ...