In the immediate aftermath of local council elections held in early and mid-October, consensus among politicians media commentators was that Partito Democratico (Democratic Party, P...

The fifteen responses to my paper provide an exceptionally wide range of perspectives on the current state of research on fuzzy logic and its applications. Overall, I find that with most commentators I agree more than I disagree. In this response, I shall try to steer a middle course between simply repeating points of agreement and narrowly countering points of disagreement. My comments are div...

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

Empirical studies of earnings management, audit pricing, and audit reporting provide extensive evidence that the Big Five public accounting firms are associated with higher quality financial statements (Francis 2004). Nevertheless, the recent high-profile financial reporting failures that roiled the U.S. capital markets cast doubt on whether this proposition remains valid. Indeed, many commenta...

We were delighted at the magnitude of response to our target article. No less than 15 author teams obviously put in considerable time and effort in preparing thoughtful commentaries on this work. Participants in the debate included some of the most distinguished and productive theorists and researchers in the attitudes and persuasion domain. Evidently, our article hit a spot where discussion wa...

At Repl/blic 370c-372d, Plato presents us with an early polis that is self-sufficient. peaceful, cooperative, and which provides a comfortable life for its inhabitants. While Glaucon derides this polis as a 'city for pigs', Socrates is quick to defend its virtues characterizing it as a city which is not only 'complete' (te/ea), but a 'true' (alEtilil/e polis) and 'healthy' city (hugies tis) (37...

Democracy used to be a word that international legal commentators preferred to avoid. At least by the second half of the present century, this was not because too few governments identified themselves as democratic. It was rather because too many did so. The world's most repressive regimes joined their more representative counterparts in claiming a title that had become synonymous with praisewo...

in the nineteenth century, with the rise of the literary schoolsin france and giving heed to oriental literacy and mysticalworks, the commentators and translators of ibn sina began towork on his treatises. since they knew ibn sina as anaristotelian philosopher, the following question was raised:why has aristotelian ibn sina given heed to mysticalattitudes? in response to the question whether or...

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.