Recent decades have seen the emergence of two new fields of inquiry into ethical issues in medicine. These are the fields of bioethics and of health and human rights. In this critical review of these fields, the author argues that bioethics, partly because it has been construed so broadly, suffers from quality control problems. The author also argues that the field of health and human rights is...

purpose:  the paper aims to focus on south africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. it attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the national dev...

Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese, or CSJ, is a large-scale database of spontaneous Japanese. It contains speech signal and transcription of about 7 million words along with various annotations like POS and phonetic labels. After describing its design issues, preliminary evaluation of the CSJ was presented. The results suggest strongly the usefulness of the CSJ as the resource for the study of spo...

Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese, or CSJ, is a large-scale database of spontaneous Japanese. It contains speech signal and transcription of about 7 million words along with various annotations like POS and phonetic labels. After describing its design issues, the potential of the CSJ as a resource for linguistic variation study was evaluated.