In 2014, the United States granted individuals a right of access to their own laboratory test results, including genomic data. Many observers feel that this right is in tension with regulatory and bioethical standards designed to protect the safety of people who undergo genomic testing. This commentary attributes this tension to growing pains within an expanding federal regulatory program for g...

The Civil Sphere offers a bold and original thesis about the critically important role that civil societies play in Western democracies. Although I will challenge Alexander’s thesis, it is important to state at the outset that The Civil Sphere is a valuable book packed with rich social histories, lively engagements with ancient and contemporary theories, and novel interpretations. There is much...

Dispatch reliability is the key parameters to reflect the overall reliability of civil aircraft, and it is also the important technical parameters needs to be considered in the original design of civil aircraft. According to the actual delay rate data of airlines, combined with the relationship between delay rate and dispatch reliability, from the perspective of civil aircraft design, author fi...

GREGG, Bde.-Surgn.-Lieut.-Col. W. H., Offg. Civil Surgn. of Hooghly, is appointed to act as Civil Surgn. of Burdwan during the absence, on deputation, of Surgn.-Lieut.-Col. G. Price, or until further orders. Jordan, Surgn.-Capt. J. G., Offg. Civil Surgn. of Darbhanga, is appointed to act ns Civil Surgn. of Rangpur during the absence, on deputation, of Dr. P. A. Rigby, or until further orders. B...

Initiatives which are intended to reduce the risk of a terrorist attack may impact not only civil liberties including privacy, but civil rights or equality as well. In the present paper, we consider conceptual tradeoffs among attitudes towards security, civil liberties and civil rights, and examine the psychometric structure of these attitudes in both congressional ratings and survey data. An e...

MEADOWS. Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. W., appointment as Civil Surgeon of Burdwan, i3 cancelled. Bovill, Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel E., is appointed to act as Civil Surgeon of Shahabad, during the absence, on leave, of Surgeon-Major R. Macrae. Price, Surgeon-Major G-., appointment as Civil Surgeon of Bhagalpnr, is cancelled. MONEY-SHEWAN, Surgeon-Major G., is appointed to act as Civil Surge...

a Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Roosevelt Road, Sec. 4, Taipei, Taiwan b Ruentex Group, 14F., No. 308, Section 2, Bade Road, Taipei, 104, Taiwan c Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsieu Road, Hsinchu, 30050, Taiwan d Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsieu Road, Hsinchu,30050, Tai...

Baboo Odoy Chund Dutt, Pooreo Assistant-Surgeon K. MeLeod, M.D., Civil Surgeon, Jessore Assistant-Surgeon J. McL. Cameron, M.D., Civil Surgeon, Monghyr Assistant-Surgeon R. Hervey, M.B., Bhurtpoor Political Agency Dr. J. AV. Tyler, Civil surgeon, Mynpoori Assistant-Surgeon J. M. Coates, M.D., in charge of Central Jail, Hazareebaugh G. D. McReddie, Esq., Civil Surgeon, Hurdui, Oudh Assistant-Sur...

To learn more about the effect of economic conditions on civil war, we examine whether Sub-Saharan civil wars are more likely to start following downturns in the international price of countries’ main export commodities. The data show a robust effect of commodity price downturns on the outbreak of civil wars. We also find that Sub-Saharan countries are more likely to see civil wars following ec...

This work presents a prototype system that enables electronic integration of civil status records of the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS) member states; the pursued issues are involving civil status matters for citizens of member states through their respective Registrars’ Offices organization. Phase 1 of the prototype system is presented together with the technical feasibility s...