Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law has attracted much academic attention in English scholarship. This paper explores how Western scholars perceive this thought to see whether they have correct perceptions. Relevant literature suggests that most recognize contributions made by president promoting rule law. Some researchers employ a liberal democratic approach examine China’s socialist law, an...

Studies in comparative penology still lack English writings about penal cultures non-Anglo-European countries, particularly those that steer their focus away from imprisonment. This article fills this gap by giving accounts of control Thailand and how its criminal justice practices differ the Western models which they were inspired. Although quite similar forms, Thai court routines diverge West...

Background and Study Aim: Esophageal variceal bleeding is a major medical emergency and one of the most important indications for hospital admission and for blood transfusion. However, the safest and the effective blood transfusion strategy is controversial. Here, we studied the safety and the effectiveness of the restrictive versus liberal transfusion strategies in patients with esophageal var...

At the core of republican thought, on Philip Pettit’s account, lies the conception of freedom as non-domination as opposed to freedom as non-interference in the liberal sense. I revisit the distinction between liberal and republican freedom and argue that republican freedom incorporates a particular rule-oflaw requirement, whereas liberal freedom does not. Liberals may also endorse such a requi...

The author discusses the theory of liberal nationalism of the prominent Canadian political theorist Will Kymlicka. According to Kymlicka, liberal nationalism is a necessary ingredient of developed liberal democracy, because social justice, deliberative democracy and individual freedom are most efficiently achieved within national political units. Kymlicka defines his theory as liberal culturali...

Stephen T. Davis Claremont McKenna College I My job at this conference is to assess the liberal arts at the present moment in time. I will take that to mean the liberal arts as they are taught and learned at colleges and universities in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. To tip my hand, I am going to argue that small liberal arts colleges, and especially those like ...

Most studies examining episodic memory in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have focused on patients' impaired ability to remember information, leading to poor discrimination between studied and unstudied items at test. Poor discrimination, however, can also be attributable to an abnormally high rate of false alarms. One cause of a high false alarm rate is an abnormally liberal response bias; that is, r...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

Norms have been extensively studied to coordinate multi-agent systems, and the literature has investigated two general approaches to norm synthesis: off-line (synthesising norms at design-time) and on-line (runtime synthesis). On-line synthesis is generally recognised to be appropriate for open systems, where aspects of the system remain unknown at design-time. In this paper we present LION , a...

There are several reasonable conceptions of liberalism. A liberal polity can survive a measure of disagreement over just what constitutes liberalism. In part, this is because of the way a liberal order makes possible a dynamic, heterogeneous civil society and how that, in turn, can supply participants with reasons to support a liberal political order. Despite the different conceptions of justic...