Formal Interpretation Research Articles

Risks and threats as system-forming categories of state control and supervision

The subject. The key characteristics of risks and threats in state control context are researched comprehensively.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that threats and risks should be the basis for determining the content of other elements of the system of state control and supervision.The methodology. The authors use the formal legal interpretation of normative acts, as well as systemic approach and analysis of philosophical literature, concepts of the security the-ory and monographs in different branches of law.The main results, scope of application. The relationship between the concepts of "threats" and "risks" is determined, and their author's definitions are proposed. A threat in control and supervisory activities is a set of events or acts that cause or are capable of causing damage to socially significant values. Risks are such threats to socially significant values, which are expressed in the actions of participants of social relations. Risks are associated with an incorrect assessment of the objective situation and can lead to harm with varying degrees of probability. The categories "risk" (in the negative aspect) and "threat" highlight two facets of the same entity. When describing malicious phenomena as threats, attention is focused on the possibility of causing harm as an integral attribute of such phenomena. Understanding them as risks allows us to give a quantitative description of the probability of occurrence of harmful consequences of the impact of a particular act on the protected object. Problems are identified in the reflection of the essential characteristics of risks and threats in the current legislation on state control (supervision) and in the new Federal Law of 31.07.2020 No. 248-FZ "On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation". The analysis of the Russian legislation shows that there is no comprehensive approach to fixing the essential characteristics of threats and risks, which are aimed at minimizing the control and supervisory activities. New Russian Law No. 248-FZ of 31.07.2020 also demonstrates that the legislator does not have a systematic approach to identifying risks and other threats and therefore effective measures to counteract their implementation through control and supervisory activities are not determined. The scientific substantiation of the characteristics of risks and threats in general allows both to enrich the theory of public control, and to improve the legislation on control and supervisory activities, as well as to increase the effectiveness of the protection of public interests in the process of its application.Conclusions. The key nature of threats and risks for determining other elements of the sys-tem of state control and supervision is substantiated The use of the term “threat" is preferred because of its more universal nature. Threats determines both the goals and principles of control and supervisory activities in any area, as well as its forms and methods.

Al-Pancasila fi al-Mandzûri al-Maqâshidî al-Syar’î: Dirâsah Tahlîliyah

This article aims to search for Pancasila concept from the perspective of maqashid Sharia. Pancasila is made up of the Five Principles, which are: e.g. belief in the One and Only God, just and civilized humanity, unity of Indonesia, democratic rule that are guided by the strength of wisdom resulting from deliberation and social justice for all Indonesians. This study relies on inductive and analytical method to present the principles of Pancasila in terms of its concept statement, its formal interpretation, and its analysis from the intentional perspective. I have come up with solutions in the interpretation corresponding to the Sharia purposes of Pancasila.

Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Limited English Proficiency Curriculum

<strong>Background:</strong> Sixty percent of U.S. internal medicine (IM) residency directors report their program includes a curriculum focused on the needs of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). <strong>Objective:</strong> This quality improvement project sought to improve knowledge of best practices for caring for LEP patients by IM residents by implementing an educational curriculum. <strong>Methods:</strong> Residents from three IM residency programs in a large academic health system were surveyed on their perceived LEP education and barriers at the beginning of the 2018–2019 academic year. A LEP curriculum was developed and delivered to interns of one of the programs. These residents were re-surveyed early in the following academic year. <strong>Results:</strong> 118/392 (30%) residents completed the pre-curriculum survey. 35% of respondents reported frustration or stress while caring for LEP patients. 59% of residents reported deferring an interpreter for LEP patients less than half of the time. After implementation of the curriculum, a significantly higher percentage of residents responded they informed patients of LEP services at the beginning of the patient encounter (42% vs. 58%, p = 0.03), used “teach-back” (38% vs. 63%, p = 0.002), and felt confident in their ability to know if the patient understood the interpreter (25% vs. 42%, p = 0.01). There were no significant changes after implementation of the curriculum on the effect of time pressures, deferring of formal interpretation, and use of ad-hoc interpreters. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> A LEP curriculum delivered as a brief workshop for IM residents increased perceived education in caring for LEP patients and heightened awareness of LEP patient rights to formal interpretation.

The principle of proportionality of constitutional responsibility of elected officials: theory, foreign experience and problems of Russian law enforcement

The subject of the research is the principle of proportionality as an intersectoral principle of legal responsibility. It has a constitutional nature and guarantees fairness in resolving the cases of constitutional responsibility. This principle provides individualization of constitutional-legal sanction and its proportionality to the constitutional tort, circumstances, reasons, conditions and consequences of its commission. The purpose of the article is to confirm or dispute the hypothesis that the principle of proportionality should be taken into account both in the description of the constitutional torts of elected officials in the legislation, and in the application of the rules on constitutional responsibility Methodology. The method of legal comparison is the main method of the research. The authors carry out the comparative analysis of practice of the foreign constitutional courts, the European Court of Human Rights concerning the subject of research. Traditional methods of legal academic knowledge – the analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction and a formal legal interpretation – were used also. The main results of the research and the scope of their application. The authors research the theoretical foundations, foreign experience, problems of applying the principle of proportionality in the process of implementing the constitutional-legal responsibility of elected officials in order to formulate the proposals for improving the Russian legislation and the law enforcement practice. The principle of proportionality of constitutional responsibility should be reflected in the legislation and implemented in the law enforcement practice. The measures of constitutional liability to elected officials can be based not on any, but only on a serious, gross violation of the Constitution and laws, indicating the guilty conduct. Such constitutionally punishable conduct should cause damage to the protected constitutional values or pose a threat of such damage and therefore be incompatible with the further exercise of the public legal duties and powers. Conclusions. The composition of constitutional torts should be formulated with a certain degree of abstraction in such way that conditions are created for the enforcer to take into account the repetition, systematic, duration, severity or insignificance of the committed tort and the other factors that can individualize the constitutional responsibility. Judicial and the other enforcement bodies should enforce early termination of the powers of an official as an exceptional, extreme measure of constitutional responsibility based on the principle of proportionality. The nature and severity of the constitutional offence committed, the causes, conditions and consequences thereof, the degree of guilt of the offender, consequences of the sanction for the further exercise by the person of his constitutional rights and freedoms in the political and legal sphere and the other important circumstances must be considered in case of early termination of the powers of an official. The law enforcement body should assess each time whether such measure is proportionate to the constitutional offence committed, and whether it was strictly necessary to protect the constitutional values.

Constitutional status of federal territories in Russia: theoretical foundations of legislative regulation

The subject of the study is the constitutional concept of federal territories in Russia. The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that constitutional status of federal territories in Russia consists of system of elements and identify such elements. The authors use the method of formal legal interpretation of Russian Constitution, the methods of comparative constitutional law, complex analysis, systemic interpretation of Russian laws and drafts of laws. The main results of research, scope of application. When making an amendment to part 1 of Article 67 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the content of this innovation was not disclosed. Therefore the federal law on federal territories will be of decisive importance. The authors define the constitutional characteristics of the federal territories based on the literal content of the constitutional norm and the conclusion of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The federal territory is an element of the state territory that is not a subject of the federal structure and has a status different from the status of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. There are specific features of the organization of public power in federal territory. The authors’ vision of the content of each of the elements of the federal territories is presented. It is noted that the defining element of the status of federal territories will be the purpose of their creation. The authors propose a conceptual division of federal territories in Russia into two types: inhabited and uninhabited. It is stated that at the moment, the status elements can be clearly defined only in relation to uninhabited federal territories. The formation of the concept of inhabited federal territories will depend on definition of the purpose of their creation. Conclusions. It is proposed to consider the elements of the status of federal territories in Russia, based on the elements of the status of the subject of the Russian Federation, and in comparison with them. Such elements are: territory, population, subjects of jurisdiction, responsibilities, state power organization, property and budget, system of taxes and fees, names and symbols, population’s role in the state affairs management.

Criminological classification of robots: risk-based approach

The subject of the research is key criminal risks in robotics. The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis that key criminal risks of using robots may be identified and classified. The author dares to describe the key aspects of the application of risk-based approach in the assessment of robotic activities, identify the key risks of using robots, give a criminological classification. The methodology includes a formal logical method, systematic approach, formal legal interpretation of legal acts and academic literature, SWOT analysis. The main results of the study. The author applies the main provisions of criminal riskology when assessing encroachments involving robots. Key risks and challenges when using robots are identified. The severity of the consequences of harm caused by using robots (from minor to critical risk) is assessed and a matrix of the probability of its occurrence is provided. The author's criminological classification of robots is based on the risk-based approach and is substantiated on two grounds. The first one is the category of public danger and the second is the potential severity of the consequences of harm caused by robots. The causal complex that can lead to criminal risks in robotics is identified. The grounds of such risks are divided into those related to the mechanical subsystem of robots, digital subsystem of robots and power supply subsystem of robots. Conclusions. The risk-based approach is the most progressive and effective basis for regulating the criminal relations in robotics. The author demonstrates the existence of real risks to the peace and security of mankind, life and health of people, objects of wildlife, nonliving material objects from the use of robots. It is necessary to recognize robotics as source of increased potential criminal danger and to adopt appropriate regulation as soon as possible. The necessity and expediency of applying a risk-based approach to robotics is theoretically substantiated, and the characteristics of robots that are important in assessing the criminal potential of their exploitation are evaluated. The conclusions and recom mendations of this paper may become a basis for the implementation of the risk-based approach in legal regulation of robotics. The risk matrix presented in the article can be used to establish a framework for regulatory impact on robotics, assess the consequences of potential harm and minimize it.

Causal Organic Indirect and Direct Effects: Closer to the Original Approach to Mediation Analysis, with a Product Method for Binary Mediators.

Mediation analysis, which started in the mid-1980s, is used extensively by applied researchers. Indirect and direct effects are the part of a treatment effect that is mediated by a covariate and the part that is not. Subsequent work on natural indirect and direct effects provides a formal causal interpretation, based on cross-worlds counterfactuals: outcomes under treatment with the mediator set to its value without treatment. Organic indirect and direct effects avoid cross-worlds counterfactuals, using so-called organic interventions on the mediator while keeping the initial treatment fixed at treatment. Organic indirect and direct effects apply also to settings where the mediator cannot be set. In linear models where the outcome model does not have treatment-mediator interaction, both organic and natural indirect and direct effects lead to the same estimators as in the original formulation of mediation analysis. Here, we generalize organic interventions on the mediator to include interventions combined with the initial treatment fixed at no treatment. We show that the product method holds in linear models for organic indirect and direct effects relative to no treatment even if there is treatment-mediator interaction. Moreover, we find a product method for binary mediators. Furthermore, we argue that the organic indirect effect relative to no treatment is very relevant for drug development. We illustrate the benefits of our approach by estimating the organic indirect effect of curative HIV treatments mediated by two HIV persistence measures, using data on interruption of antiretroviral therapy without curative HIV treatments combined with an estimated or hypothesized effect of the curative HIV treatments on these mediators. See video abstract at http://links.lww.com/EDE/B796.

Abstract P856: Contributors to Internal Primary Stroke Center Transfer Delays: Factors Beyond Stroke Coordinators’ Control

Background: Stroke coordinators often are challenged to transfer patients to higher levels of care, facing internal system, transport, and comprehensive stroke center (CSC) factors that may slow the transfer process. We aimed to understand the internal challenges faced by stroke coordinators at primary stroke centers/acute stroke ready hospitals (PSC/ASRH) in the transfer process. Methods: Six national focus groups with PSC/ASRH staff experienced with stroke transfers were conducted by web conference. Interviews were conducted using pre-scripted open-ended questions; information was recorded and data were transcribed for theme identification. Results: Participants were from Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, and West Coast USA. Internal PSC/ASRH problems were tied exclusively to physicians: Emergency department (ED) physicians’ lack knowledge of how/when to order advanced imaging; delays initiating telemedicine guidance were common; and, negative attitudes towards stroke emergencies among “tenured” ED physicians were identified. All participants noted that they were compliant with door-to-noncontrast CT and alteplase treatment time metrics, however, radiologists commonly used the full 2-hours allotted for CTA and CTP reads, and many telemedicine neurologists refused to review/interpret advanced imaging choosing to rely on the local general radiologists’ formal interpretation. Conclusions: Major factors contributing to internal PSC/ASRH transfer delays are exclusively physician-based. Physician education, standardized algorithms for advanced imaging selection, more-timely regulatory metrics for advanced imaging interpretation, and improved telemedicine physician expertise and guidance would improve transfer timeliness in these centers.

Trends and cycles in U.S. job mobility

AbstractRecent studies document a decline in U.S. labor‐market fluidity from as early as the 1970s on. Making use of the Annual Social and Economic supplement to the Current Population Survey, I uncover a pronounced increase in job‐to‐job mobility from the 1970s to the 1990s, i.e. the annual share of continuously employed job‐to‐job movers rises from 5.9% of the labor force in 1975–1979 to 8.8% in 1995–1999. Job‐to‐job mobility exhibits a downward trend only since the turn of the millennium. In order to provide a formal economic interpretation, I additionally estimate the parameters of the random on‐the‐job search model. Furthermore, I document that job‐to‐job mobility has an unconditional correlation of −0.86 with the unemployment rate at business‐cycle frequencies in 1975–2017, varying by around 3 percentage points over the business cycle.

Gender Struggle Within Complex Religious Realities: Druze Women in Israel as a Case Study

Druze society in Israel is culturally close to the general Arab society, particularly in terms of language and social norms, such as the importance of family honor. Druze society is relatively more conservative, due to its geographic isolation in a rural environment; the limited access to religious scriptures, which are only allowed to be read by religious people; and the lack of new formal interpretation of these scriptures. These unique religious characteristics burden Druze women and limit their sphere of action in their struggle against oppression. The current manuscript argues that while there is no formal structure that allows women to fight patriarchy in Druze society, many Druze women wage daily struggles for their basic rights. These struggles lead to a change in the social norms, and thus to a transformation of rural social behaviors. This manuscript focuses on two main fields in which these struggles take place: the struggle to realize women’s personal choices in issues like choosing their friends and realizing their sexuality, and the struggle for a greater mobility. The findings reveal two key strategies employed by these women: istighāba—realizing sexual desires in a hidden domain to avoid sanction, and bargaining with their family to expand their mobility.

The Welfare Implications of Unobserved Heterogeneity

New conditions are derived for relating household financial well‐being to household utility. In particular, a one‐for‐one mapping between the equivalent incomes stemming from subsistence‐based utility functions and probabilistic models of financial well‐being is established. This is unique in the literature and enables estimates from reduced‐form models based on a cumulative distribution function (e.g. probit and logit models) to be given a formal welfare interpretation. In so doing, it is possible to use reduced‐form models of well‐being to evaluate welfare distortions associated with unobserved heterogeneity in subsistence levels and marginal utilities of consumption. An Australian household‐level data set is used as a case study for exploring the distortions associated with unobserved heterogeneity. The results are significant for better understanding the welfare implications of income and transfer policies, and indicate that the failure to account for unobserved heterogeneity results in large welfare distortions. Finally, I show that the distortions are primarily attributable to heterogeneity in subsistence requirements rather than heterogeneity in marginal utilities of consumption.

Regulation – the area of inter-branch knowledge application

The purpose of the study is to justify the feasibility of using regulatory policy and sectoral scientific tools in the daily activities of regulatory bodies. The study used a wide range of sources containing empirical data reflecting modern theoretical concepts of regulation. The authors used general scientific and special methods of cognition, methods of analysis and synthesis, formal logic, comparative jurisprudence, and interpretation of law. The result of the study was an overview of the points of view of modern scientists on regulation problems and the use of an intersectoral approach. In addition, the article provides a rationale for the need to use an intersectoral approach in regulation; the possibilities of attracting psychologists and criminologists, historians and political scientists have been identified. The novelty of the results obtained is due to the author’s approach to the study of the activities of regulatory bodies and lies in the fact that it has shown that in modern conditions, regulation takes on the character of scientific activity that requires broad knowledge. Currently, in the world practice, there are no examples of the inclusion of criminologists, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and ecologists in the staff structure of regulatory bodies as experts on a wide range of issues that managers have to solve when developing regulatory policy, choosing models, and developing regulatory strategies. Nowadays, all these issues are solved by the heads of regulatory bodies mostly intuitively, guided by their life experience and ideas about what should be done or subjective assessments, which does not contribute to the successful achievement of regulatory goals. Continuation of research on this topic will contribute to the development of theoretical ideas about the activities of regulatory bodies and the development of practical proposals aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation.

МЕТОДЫ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ НАЛОГОВЫМИ РИСКАМИ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПАНДЕМИИ КОРОНАВИРУСНОЙ ИНФЕКЦИИ (ОПЫТ РОССИИ И ПОЛЬШИ)

The article examines the methods of public governance during the first wave of coronavirus infection in the context of ensuring the national tax security. The authors use the experience of Russia and Poland – two post-socialist countries having the same foundations of administrative and legal systems. The purpose of the paper is to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of public governance methods used by public authorities to support the economic systems of Russia and Poland from the point of view of their impact on national tax security. The methodological basis of the research is the philosophical theory of security within the framework of which the characteristics of such phenomena as security risks and threats, as well as the principles of its provision, have been developed, The authors also used the formal legal interpretation of legal acts to select normative legal acts fixing the applied methods of public administration as well as to clarify their provisions in accordance with the rules of formal logic and jurisprudence. The comparative method was used to select and compare with each other Russian and Polish normative legal acts, Russian and foreign doctrinal sources in the field of theory and practice of public administration, administrative and tax law. The empirical basis of the research consists of normative legal acts and state statistics of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Poland, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The characteristics of tax risks caused by the coronavirus pandemic are revealed, and their correlation with threats to tax security is established. The authors’ classification tax risk governance methods in the context of the coronavirus pandemic is carried out, administrative and economic measures that directly and indirectly affect the tax system are also characterized by the authors. Conclusions are made about the effectiveness of the main tax risk governance measures applied in Russia and Poland, while the Russian measures differ in a wide variety and a high proportion of proactive support measures. The theoretical and practical significance of the research lies in the fact that it allows to identify the existing potential of governance decisions in the event of another wave of a pandemic or the emergence of new crisis phenomena in the economy, accompanied by a reduction in supply and demand in the markets (military conflicts, natural and man-made emergencies, etc.).

Лес и растительный мир: правовые проблемы разграничения

Introduction: the article discusses issues related to the legal definition of concepts of forest and other vegetation, green spaces, as well as vegetation and plant life in general. Purpose: to perform a legal analysis of the transformation of approaches to understanding the term ‘forest’ in Soviet and modern Russian legislation. The analysis involves comparison of domestic experience with the experience of legal regulation in foreign countries and also takes into account views of Russian and foreign scientists on the relation between the legal concept of forest and vegetation outside forests. Methods: comparative legal, comparative historical, description and interpretation, theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic, special scientific methods: formal dogmatic approach and interpretation of legal norms. Conclusions: the authors have studied legal issues concerning the status of green spaces in cities and other settlements, which is currently regulated in Russia at the regional level, in the same way as in some European countries (with the case of Austria used as an illustration in this article). Results: using specific examples, the authors have shown the process of formation of legislation on the use and protection of plant life objects, including cultivated and wild plants. Taking into account the experience of the neighboring countries and also the developments of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the authors made some proposals concerning the legal enshrinement of main mandatory provisions that could form the basis for further development of legislation in this sphere.

Judicial interpretation: features and practical significance

Judicial interpretation: features and practical significance

Modern Shoe Buckles from Archaeological Research in Gniew and Piaseczno (Pomerania Province, Poland)

During archaeological research carried out from 2009 to 2016 in the Church of St. Nicholas in Gniew, a set of three metal buckles was found. Then, in 2017, excavations were conducted in crypts of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Piaseczno, in the Gniew District. Two other pairs of buckles were uncovered at this site. All the buckles found differ considerably. Thanks to this, one can get an impression that apart from holding the shoe on the foot, they also served decorative purposes. One can distinguish two main types of buckles: those made of iron and those made of a copper alloy. The latter, considering ornaments, could be more valuable than their iron counterparts. Regardless of the alloy used, manufacturing techniques differed, some of which were those used in the case of buckles from Gniew and Piaseczno: wire forging, cutting out of thick metal sheet, and folding thin metal sheet.&#x0D; On account of their jewellery-like character, this small collection of buckles discussed could be bequeathed, while most grave shoes were only fastened with tailor’s pins or put on the feet of the dead without fastening. This practice particularly concerned shoes with textile uppers, which mostly meant women’s shoes. It may suggest that the items in question were rather owned by men. The buckles described could be thus elements of the everyday attire.&#x0D; Issues connected with a formal and typological interpretation of the buckles found indicate interpretive problems faced by archaeologists dealing with these aspects of costume studies. Modern shoes, due to the scarcity of artefacts in archaeological collections, remain mysterious and puzzling objects.

The hidden geometry of MUSAC. Field systems as the origin of form in the contemporary project

The origin of the contemporary project’s form has become an enigma. The process of drawing up a project ends up being a superimposed, diluted reality, hidden by the narratives constructed by their authors. At some point, in which the process becomes more important than the result itself, a ‘simulated’ story is apparently more conveyable than the process itself. In addition, multiple simultaneous approaches to the form reveal the complexity and diversity that an architect faces when undertaking a project. In this scenario, Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón, the architects of the subject of this paper, state that in the face of processes of positivist identification, it is in the project’s requirements ( function, place, technique, budget, ...) that the argument and the formal interpretation of the modern project is born. It is in the oscillation processes, and in its starting mechanisms, determined by open and flexible systems, play rules and diagrams, that an abstract and generic form is generated, the origin of the contemporary project, which is later defined and limited by its contact with reality. The MUSAC’s architecture project is a current example of the work of these architects, where personal interests or private obsessions meet public needs, through field systems formed by local behaviour patterns and context logistics. The MUSAC, a case within the evolution of frames in the genealogy of mat-buildings, finds withing the field systems notion a set of play rules that allows growth, adaptability and transformation, as well as exception and singularity. This research makes a critical analysis of the “visible” geometry of the MUSAC by reconstructing a hypothetical project process, or a narrative constructed by the architects to justify the process, using the drawing as a tool capable of unveiling and decoding the different layers that gave form to the project.

THE PROBLEM OF MEANING OF LAW IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY

The article is devoted to the evolution of law in a digital society in a semantic approach. The rapid development of digital technologies is characterized by contradictory trends. The new technical and technological reality can be terminal for the development of society if people entrust themselves to a "digit" and will not reasonably and responsibly organize their social relations in terms of legal regulation. A more humane version is to consider digital models as a tool for solving social problems. In this way, law should acquire the quality of the main tool of such transformations and along with new functions; those functions are expert-analytical, forecasting, priority adaptation, standardization of technological control. The problem of meaning of law in a digital society can be attributed to most important problems. It covers a wide range of debatable issues: the relation-ship between the real and the virtual in law, consideration of artificial intelligence as a possible subject of law, distinction between truth and plausibility in law, se-miotic nature and methodology of cognizing the meaning of law in the world of signs, symbols, codes, etc. The purpose of the article is to formulate the author's view on the dynamics of the laws meaning in a digital society from the point of view of ontology, epistemology, methodology and applied aspect of knowledge. Research methods: formal legal, analysis, interpretation, forecasting, and modeling. The results of the study. In a digital society, law is being transformed into digital semiotic and augmented reality, with technology as an integral part of it. In these conditions, law, according to author, will preserve the regulatory and value potential for human society on condition that software machine codes are integrated into the human environment, and used to the benefit of a human being. There-fore, the traditional procedures of law-making, interpretation, concretization, application of law and dynamic meaning-making will remain relevant; by analogy with them, the software allowing to interact with the machine will be created and developed. The article arrives at the concludion that cognition of the meaning of law in a digital society rests in the search for the truth: law is a human reality and scientific and technological progress is evaluated in compliance with it.

Patients' Experiences with an Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Program.

We compared the characteristics of postpartum women who recalled being offered or not offered intrauterine devices and implants and who obtained placement of these long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) devices at a county hospital before discharge. We assessed satisfaction and continuation among those who obtained LARC methods. We interviewed 199 patients who delivered at a Texas hospital and tested for differences in who recalled being offered/not offered immediate postpartum LARC. We provide descriptive statistics on when offered and satisfaction, and assess continuation using Kaplan-Meier survival curves. There were 103 of 199 women (51.8%) who recalled providers offering them immediate postpartum LARC; English-speaking relative to Spanish-speaking Hispanic women had higher odds of recounting being offered immediate postpartum LARC (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 3.88; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.33-11.23), as did women with two children versus one child (OR, 3.64; 95% CI, 1.13-11.67). Compared with women 18-24years of age who wanted more children, women 30-34years of age who wanted more children had lower odds (OR, 0.14; 95% CI, 0.03-0.59), as did sterilized women 18 to 44 (OR, 0.02; 95% CI, 0.00-0.10). Seventy-four women (37% of all and 72% of those who recalled being offered) received immediate postpartum LARC. Sixty percent of those who received immediate postpartum LARC recalled that they were first offered it during prenatal care. Satisfaction was high but decreased between 3 and 6months postpartum, mainly owing to negative side effects. Continuation at 24months postpartum was 76.9% (CI, 71.7%-81.4%), with no difference between intrauterine device and implant use. Language barriers may have hindered equal access to immediate postpartum LARC for Spanish-speaking patients; younger patients were more likely to recall being offered immediate postpartum LARC, possibly owing to providers' implicit biases or greater demand for LARC versus sterilization. Using formal interpretation services and patient-centered decision making may improve patient access to the contraception methods most aligned with their values and preferences.

M\u012bm\u0101\u1e43s\u0101 deontic reasoning using specificity: a proof theoretic approach

Over the course of more than two millennia the philosophical school of Mīmāṃsā has thoroughly analyzed normative statements. In this paper we approach a formalization of the deontic system which is applied but never explicitly discussed in Mīmāṃsā to resolve conflicts between deontic statements by giving preference to the more specific ones. We first extend with prohibitions and recommendations the non-normal deontic logic extracted in Ciabattoni et al. (in: TABLEAUX 2015, volume 9323 of LNCS, Springer, 2015) from Mīmāṃsā texts, obtaining a multimodal dyadic version of the deontic logic mathsf {MD}. Sequent calculus is then used to close a set of prima-facie injunctions under a restricted form of monotonicity, using specificity to avoid conflicts. We establish decidability and complexity results, and investigate the potential use of the resulting system for Mīmāṃsā philosophy and, more generally, for the formal interpretation of normative statements.