Authorities disagree as to whether and how the mental capacity required for competence to stand trial should change as the charges against a defendant become more serious. Intuition and practice in other areas of law and psychiatry suggest that the mental capacity required should increase in these circumstances. The reasons relate to our belief that serious mistakes are more to be avoided and t...

Design methodology and criteria to configure sprue bush for enhancing functionality is systematically compiled from plastic injection moulding machine perspective. Sprue conduit’s sensitivity to moulding objectives are quantitatively ghettoised as expansion ratio on the basis of ubiquitous empirical relationships. This generic, simple, inexpensive preventive criterion enables sprue bush conduit...

Motivated by fair division applications, we study a connected graph partitioning problem, in which an undirected with m nodes must be divided between n agents such that each agent receives subgraph and the partition is fair. We approximate versions of two fairness criteria: \alpha-proportionality requires receive at least (1/\alpha)*m/n nodes, \alpha-balancedness ratio sizes largest smallest su...

A comparison is made between the most commonly used decision-making method (AHP), and two methods developed by the authors (APM and CSM). It is shown that the newly developed methods do not change the correlations and types of inequalities between the global priorities of the alternatives when the number of alternatives changes. This differentiates them from the AHP, which does change them. Als...

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to assess the dose proportionality, safety, and tolerability of fentanyl buccal tablet (FBT) in Japanese volunteers. METHODS: Healthy, opioid-naive Japanese adults received single-dose FBT 100, 200, 400, and 800 microg in a randomized, open-label, crossover fashion. Naltrexone was given to minimize the opioid effects of fentanyl. Peak serum fentanyl concentra...