concerns us all, for with it may be closely bound up our future prosperity and happiness, our professional reputation, even our professional existence. I propose to draw on my experiences and give you some impressions gained from a good many years' service now, on the Council of the Medical Defence Union. Most people know, no doubt, that that is not the only society which is concerned with such...

CEUTA AND MELILLA UNDER THE SPANISH EUROPEAN SECURITY DEFENCE UMBRELLAIn matters of security and defence, Ceuta Melilla do not appear as territories covered by NATO’s legitimate defence clause, although they would be susceptible to consultations between the parties in event a danger integrity, independence or either them. However, collective self-defence clause contained art. 42.7 TEU. The latt...

of thesis The prospect of a justification defence in cases of direct sex discrimination is universally criticised by academic commentators on the ground that it would subvert the goal of equality that underlies sex discrimination and equal treatment legislation. At the outset the thesis examines the differences between the sexes, how these differences can be used to explain the distinction betw...

It is now almost 45 years since Haldane’s ‘Defense of beanbag genetics’ appeared, and the time is ripe for an evaluation of that defence, particularly in the light of developments over the last two decades. This deliberately provocative review is divided into four parts: first, a discussion of why Haldane felt that a defence was necessary; second, a review of what his defence actually was; thir...

We propose a new task of automatically detecting reputation defence strategies in the field of computational argumentation. We cast the problem as relation classification, where given a pair of reputation threat and reputation defence, we determine the reputation defence strategy. We annotate a dataset of parliamentary questions and answers with reputation defence strategies. We then propose a ...

Since the ooside rule was adopted in RoboCup-98, many teams without teamwork ability got ooside penalty many times in their matches. Those teams who have dribble skill won, because most of other teams have not eecient defence strategy. In this paper, we consider an ee-cient teamwork-based defence method called line defence. To achieve the line defence, a set of basic teamwork abilities (includi...