A Probabilistic Study Of Safety Criteria For Design

National Science Foundation Under Grant GK-1812

Good Arguments and Fallacies

To understand what a fallacy is one needs to understand what a bad argument is and what it is for an argument to appear good. I will argue that from an intuitive standpoint a good argument should be understood in roughly the way Richard Feldman has proposed, that is, as an argument that gives people reason to believe its conclusion. However, I will also argue that an externalist condition that requires that the premises really do support the conclusion must be added to the internalist account which only requires that a person be justified in believing the premises support the conclusion

On the Edge: Facing a Challenging and Uncertain Future

Introduces the Boston Elder Economic Security Standard as a tool to assess the real economic circumstances, needs, and resources of the low- and middle-income elderly in Boston, depending on their health, housing, marital status and other factors

VOCALIZATION OF THE CROCODILE SKINK, TRIBOLONOTUS GRACILIS (DE ROOY, 1909), AND EVIDENCE OF PARENTAL CARE.

The crocodile or spiny skinks, Tribolonotus, comprise eight secretive semi-fossorial lizards, which are generally found under vegetation in the immediate vicinity of water (Greer and Parker, 1968; O'Shea, 1991, 1994; Rogner, 1997). Tribolonotus gracilis (Figure 1) and Tribolonotus novaeguineae are restricted to New Guinea, while the remaining six species range throughout Indonesia, Manus, New Britain, Bougainville, and the Solomon Islands (McCoy, 1980; O'Shea, 1991, 1994). Because scant life history information is available for the genus Tribolonotus, the purpose of the present contribution is to document the vocalization and parental care of T. gracilis

“I Contain Multi-Tudes” : – A Meditation on the Need for Rough and Rowdy Ways

Since his elevation to the Nobel laureateship, quoting the lyrics of Bob Dylan seems even more apropos to successfully understanding the rubbish which fills ‘modern times,’ and the possible solutions to our current eschatological predicament. In the more-or-less poetic ‘meditation’ which follows, I will use his lyric as jumping-off point for a kind of wilfully Derridean exegesis. My aim is not to attempt to divine what St Bob ‘meant;’ but to use ‘categories’ derived from his words to cast a sideways light on an emergent art form based on improvisation with sound, which I believe can show us the embryo of a strategy for resolving some of the challenges we are currently facing

International Law at Sea, Economic Warfare, and Britain's Response to the German U-boat Campaign during the First World War

This thesis examines, in three parts, the British naval blockade of Germany during the First World War. In the first part, it analyses the development of international law in the years leading up to the war and uncovers British planning for a campaign of economic warfare against Germany. In the second part, there is an investigation into Germany's use of unrestricted U-boat warfare as a response to the British blockade of Germany. There is also a review of the effect of the wartime blockades on both Britain and Germany. The final part of the thesis studies issues of international law by separating the rules and regulations from the humanitarian aspects; it concludes by reviewing the changing role of the United States throughout the war and the state of law in the immediate post-war era. Challenging existing literature, the conclusions of the research have been enhanced through the employment of both case studies and counterfactual history. The conclusions challenge Bobbitt's ideas on an epochal war and show that Britain adapted well to the rigours of the German U-boat campaign, although the changing role of the United States made a vital contribution to the war. This method of warfare both revolutionised the method of employment for submarines, but also doomed Germany to failure. The First World War at sea demonstrated that international law was unable to cope with the use of the U-boat. This thesis makes an original contribution to the body of academic literature on the First World War by investigating new areas of research and improving academic understanding of the emergent role played by international law

An investigation into whether the South African and Mauritian preferential holding company regimes may undermine fiscal transparency

Includes bibliographical references.Investor interest in the untapped growth offered by the African continent is increasing dramatically. The South African Headquarter Company and the Mauritian Global Business Licence regimes, offer the most expansive double tax treaty networks of all African holding company regimes. Therefore, both of these regimes are attractive to international investors wanting to establish a gateway into Africa. Governments have identified the need to share ownership information in respect of corporations so as to curb base erosion and profit shifting and to prevent fiscal losses arising from unintended deliberate abuse of double tax treaty benefits. This dissertation examines whether Africa's two favourable holding company regimes, the South African Headquarter Company and the Mauritian Global Business Licence, have characteristics and installed measures to ensure the fiscal transparency so desired by the international community at large. The examination commences with a review of features within the Mauritian and South African holding company regimes which perpetuate the concealment of the identities of the owners of these holding companies. Without measures in place to overcome these anonymity features, the Headquarter Company and Global Business Licence corporation regimes would undoubtedly undermine fiscal transparency. Therefore, this dissertation investigates the legal and administrative measures in place to overcome these roadblocks to fiscal transparency. This examination established that sufficient measures are in place to facilitate the recording and maintenance of ownership information for headquarter companies and global business licence corporations