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Demystifying Burdens of Proof and the Effect of Rebuttable Evidentiary Presumptions in Civil and Criminal Trials

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Evidentiary presumptions in law act as shortcuts to rigorous proof. By means of an evidentiary presumption, a difficult-to-prove critical fact may be established by proving some other more easily provable subsidiary fact from which the critical fact may be presumed. This accounts for the popularity of these presumptions with trial lawyers.
openaire   +2 more sources

#NoIDVape: A content analysis of illicit vape messaging in young people's information sources

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims In recent years, the increased prevalence of youth vaping in the United Kingdom (UK) may have coincided with a proliferation in the use of ‘illicit’ (unregulated) vapes. Media or educational content about illicit vaping aimed at young people is scarce and poorly understood.
Eleanor Bray, Sarah Gentry, Anna Varley, Caitlin Notley, Samuel Webb, Emma Ward   +5 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas, Maha El Tantawi, Manami Hoshi‐Harada, Kenji Takeuchi, Ken Osaka, Carol C. Guarnizo‐Herreño, Marco A. Peres   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Endocrinologists Should Know About Iodine: Population Deficiency, Individual Excess and Misinformation in the United Kingdom

Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Iodine deficiency, once considered eliminated in the United Kingdom, has re‐emerged, particularly among women of reproductive age, in whom requirements are increased during pregnancy and lactation. The declining consumption of dairy and white fish, the emerging use of unfortified plant‐based milk alternatives, and the absence of a national ...
Peter N. Taylor, Malcolm Prentice, Sarah Bath, Emilie Combet, Nadia Schoenmakers, Vicki E. Smith, Fraser W. Gibb, Nicola Zammitt, Onyebuchi Okosieme, Kristien Boelaert, John Lazarus, Mark Vanderpump   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Be There, Listen, See What It Is They Need’: Fathers' Roles in Supporting Black Mothers During Pregnancy

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a critical public health crisis regarding the infant mortality rate between black and white mothers in the USA. This issue is more pronounced in North Carolina, where black infants have a much higher infant mortality rate than whites.
Jeffrey Shears, Lorenzo N. Hopper, Bledsoe Sarah, David Miller, J. Dontaé Roberts, Tianca Crocker, Brittany Hodges, Kevin Antwi   +7 more
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Guardrail Selection in Line Charts to Contextualize Persuasive Visualizations

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Charts used for persuasion can easily veer into being outright misleading when, for instance, cherry‐picked data is paired with a deceptive caption, as is commonly encountered on social media. The rise of interactive time‐series data explorers for hotly debated topics makes such framing easy to produce and spread.
K. A. Nadib, M. Kogan, A. Lex, M. Lisnic
wiley   +1 more source

The Logic and Value of the Presumption of Doli Incapax (Failing That, an Incapacity Defence). [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud, 2023
Hamer D, Crofts T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Transparency upon request: the right to pay information and the gender pay gap

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract Pay transparency measures are widely adopted policy instruments to decrease the gender pay gap. This paper studies a policy that grants access to wage information only upon request, analysing a German pay transparency law that grants workers the right to request information about the earnings of colleagues in comparable positions.
Katharina Brütt, Huaiping Yuan
wiley   +1 more source

Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
wiley   +1 more source