purpose: triage is a complicated and dynamic process in nature. moreover, there are many challenges in selecting the required information about the casualties, the wounded, and the type of accident at the time of crisis. hence, this research was undertaken to present a new strategy for efficiently triaging casualties in the battlefield. methodology: in this review, two methods of field and libr...

The POLST paradigm has come under fire in two recent articles. This has directly resulted in a few church leaders expressing to CEOs of Catholic health care facilities in their dioceses their grave concerns about the use of POLST in those facilities. Needless to say, this is causing considerable consternation where POLST is already being employed as well as among those who are actively planning...

A recent flurry of activity in terms of litigation and legislation involving the managed care industry has produced mixed results. Common trends among actions include delayed or diminished payment and network termination, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence in plan administration, breach of contract and fraud, and prompt pay among physician cases, among plan member cases, and among regulatory ...

In his contribution to this volume, Shaun Gallagher casts a sharply focussed critical eye over positions which claim that action is to be explained, in part, by appeal to minimal representations. One of the positions to come under fire in this way is a view that I developed in my book Reconstructing the Cognitive World (Wheeler, 2005). In this brief response I shall try to defend my own brand o...

The term ‘logical form’ has been called on to serve a wide range of purposes in philosophy, and it would be too ambitious to try to survey all of them in a single essay. Instead, I will focus on just one conception of logical form that has occupied a central place in the philosophy of language, and in particular in the philosophical study of linguistic meaning. This is what I will call the clas...

The concept of expanding space has come under fire recently as being inadequate and even misleading in describing the motion of test particles in the universe. Previous investigations have suffered from a number of shortcomings, which we seek to correct. We study the motion of test particles in the universe in detail, solving the geodesic equations of General Relativity for a number of cosmolog...

Norm-based assessment is under fire from some quarters because it is often unfair and is out of touch with the demands of the job market. Criterion-referenced assessment is touted as the answer by others but problems remain, in particular with regards to the maintenance of standards. This study examines the use of competency-based assessment in an undergraduate database course. The findings sug...