As with all sexual norms, the practice of transactional sex and its associated risk behaviours have undergone reconstruction, transformed and shaped by the country's many historical and political processes including colonisation, apartheid, and the forces of globalization that have marked the post-apartheid era [ 2, 14, 22, 23].
Traditionally, given the configuration layout of a low or medium height building structure, as it has been decided by architectural, esthetic or functional norms, the practicing engineer starts the structural design by estimating the design (base) shear, V d, required by code provisions.
To ensure that options presented were consistent with local practice norms the tool was designed to show patients the treatment options available to them depending on whether or not they have coexisting coronary artery disease.
Legislation alone is not enough: Laws are important but when they diverge from a social norm, the practice may continue but simply go underground.
In the presently relevant sense of justification, an eligible principle is one that reflects an ideal arrangement, prescinding from institutional practice, against which norms that the practice produced are measured, provided the principle is at least logically consistent with the norms.
The norms of the practice guide the interpretation and application of human rights, the appropriateness of criticism in terms of human rights, adjudication in human rights courts, and perhaps most importantly responding to serious violations of human rights.
Six distinct discourses were identified from the way participants talked about CSPs and the norms driving the practice: 1) predatory masculine sexuality; 2) masculine respectability; 3) feminine respectability; 4) empowered modern women; 5) traditional health beliefs; 6) public health.
The inherent growing pressure within the medical community to expand life-prolonging medical technology introduces the risk of abandonment of one of the most important ethical norms in the practice of medicine: physicians must not harm or kill their patients.
This in turn suggests that there is a rule, or norm, governing the practice of making assertions that requires us to assert only something we know.
Apart from poverty and lack of lavatories, one of the reasons often cited to explain open defecation in India is the ingrained cultural norm making the practice socially accepted in some parts of the society.
The moral norm in the practice of medicine is that physicians must not kill patients or intend their deaths.
