Modern Logic and Judicial Decision Making: A Sketch of One View

Two hundred years elapsed before the nineteenth century logicians Boole, De Morgan, and others, finally succeeded in formally developing the calculus of reason-ing first suggested by the German mathematician, Leibniz. It is, perhaps, to the credit of the legal profession that less than one century has subsequently elapsed, and already some lawyers and legal writers, along with other scholars, are beginning to explore the relationship between modern logic and law. What is attempted here is to outline the bare bones of one tentative way of looking at the relationship between modern logic and the judicial decision process. From the useful vantage point of a Lasswellian social process framework of analysis, logic and judicial decision making are considered contextually within that total mani-fold of events that we call the world. Thus viewed, the judicial decision making process is just one constituent of the complex unfolding of events through time. We attempt to represent some of the complexities involved in each of these processes and the relationships between them by means of a series of diagrams. By suggesting that we begin with the world as our context, we make no claim to describing it in complete detail. To the contrary, the sketch presented here-we would emphasize the word sketch and the word tentative -is rough, incomplete, and subject to considerable improvement. But one of our purposes will be served if the outline points the way toward cumulative efforts to achieve a comprehensive description of the judicial decision process. In addition to this broad look at logic, judicial decision making, and the world, a more modest aim is to describe, in some detail and with reasonable clarity, one aspect of the relation between logic and judicial decision making

Street Smart

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Victor was having a productive day. He had sat in the park and watched the children on the swingsets. He had tossed a few crumbs to some greedy pigeons, and a clown had given him a flamingo-shaped balloon. In between all the fun, he\u27d managed to work $4.25 off passersby. That was a burger and a cup of coffee at Sal\u27s Diner on 31st Maybe Grace, his favorite waitress, could swing him some free home fries when Sal wasn\u27t looking. Victor hadn\u27t needed the guilt-trip scam today; people had been fairly generous. That was something he saved for emergency situations, usually in the winter when it was so cold his fingers turned blue. He\u27d had a couple of close calls with the freezing temperatures, but the Salvation Army came along at just the right time and gave him some warm soap, or a blanket. And when times got really tough, he would seek out a shelter

The Effect of Different Weaning Strategies on Piglet Performance and Immune Function

The weaning period in commercial pig production has been a continuing problem for both the piglet and producer. An investigation was carried out to assess the effects of different, relatively simple, management strategies on the stress associated with the weaning period in terms of piglet performance, behaviour and immune status. Three of the main areas identified as playing a key part in the stress associated with weaning were mixing of unfamiliar piglets, relocation to a new environment and adaptation to a new diet. Management strategies were designed relating to assess these factors. The studies highlighted that mixing piglets pre-weaning at 14 days of age was a positive step to aid the transition of weaning, in terms of performance and immune status and requires little adaptation of current farrowing systems. Mixing at either 7 or 21 days of age does not show the same improvements in post-weaning performance. Remaining in a familiar environment was not beneficial, and may possibly be detrimental, to the newly weaned piglet and indeed, relocation to a novel environment appears to be important for the piglet psychologically and motivates the piglet to explore its new environment and search for alternative food sources. The benefits of creep feeding still needs further consideration in order to determine the optimal feeding strategy in relation to feed intakes pre- and post-weaning combined with the effects of creep feed on the underdeveloped digestive tract. Although it is not possible to completely remove the growth check that occurs post-weaning, it is clear that management strategies can be utilised to reduce the stress associated with weaning and improve post-weaning growth rates

Women Making Freedom: Rethinking Gender in Caribbean Intra-Regional Migration from a Curaçaoan Perspective

In recent decades, the number of scholarly publications on the feminization of migration has grown exponentially, as women increasingly migrate in the contemporary era of globalisation. Although migration is rooted in Caribbean history, very little attention has been paid to the autonomous migration of women in the past and they have been made invisible by sidelining gender in historiography. Yet, in similar ways to men, women in the Caribbean left their countries and migrated to seek employment elsewhere. The intra-migration movements of women from Curaçao to other Caribbean countries provides sufficient evidence that also women from a Dutch colony in the Caribbean participated independently from their males in these migration dynamics. After emancipation in 1863 in the Dutch colonies, a large group of people of African descent, both men and women remained at the bottom of the social hierarchy and used the demand for labor in other Caribbean countries to realize their aspirations. My paper, “Women Making Freedom: Rethinking Gender in Caribbean Intra-regional Migration from a Curaçaoan Perspective” draws on archival documents and some auto/biographies of Curaçaoan women who have participated in intra-Caribbean migrations in the 19th and 20th century. I will look at the experiences and concerns of these working-class women, migrating from one post-emancipation Caribbean society to another at a time when these societies were still struggling to deal with the legacy of slavery and colonialism. The paper also situates the migration of these women in the wider context of Caribbean women participating independently in migration movements in search of work and it will consider the implications for studying migration as a survival strategy for women in particular in post-emancipation Caribbean societies

Alien Registration- Allen, Mary A. (Baldwin, Cumberland County)

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Letter to Sonora Dodd from Mary A. Whedon, April 30, 1913

Letter to Sonora Dodd from Mary A. Whedon, with envelope. Mary Allen Whedon served as Associate Editor of The Farmer\u27s Wife, published by Webb Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/fathers-day-correspondence/1124/thumbnail.jp

A Study Of High School Students\u27 Educational Values: Implications For Counselors

The purpose of this study was to investigate the educational value orientations of high school students, and the relationship of these values to demographic variables, such as et nic group, sex, birth order, and social class. There are many conflicting educational values in American society. It seems that a greater understanding by counselors of the values of the pluralistic group with which they are dealing, would enable them to better plan their counseling programs

Review of the literature regarding the role of parents in the reading education program

The purpose of this investigation was to present in concise form the findings of outstanding specialists in the field of reading regarding the role of parents in the reading education program. Also included was a review of some of the major parent education programs undertaken by several of the larger school systems in the United States for the purpose of acquainting parents with the reading program in their child\u27s school. A brief study of the community of Mequon with which the writer was associated was also included, reviewing the socio-economic background, population growth pattern, and educational growth pattern of the community. The writer attempted to associate this information with the role of the suburban parent in the reading education program

Communicative behaviors of toddlers with very low birth weight in social contexts

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the social-communicative behaviors of toddlers born with Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) in contexts of social interaction and communicative temptation. Nineteen toddlers with VLBW were compared to nineteen NBW toddlers on communicative means, communicative functions, reciprocity and social-affective signaling using the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales. The major findings of this research were: children with VLBW did not differ from NBW children in global measures of social and communicative functioning, children with VLBW were limited in highly specific areas of communication such as fine motor and articulatory coordination, children with VLBW did not differ from chronologically age-matched children in nonverbal social-communicative measures. The results are discussed in terms of early developmental and neurodevelopmental theories