Men’s Rea Mens rea is Latin for "guilty mind".[1] In criminal law‚ it is viewed as one of the necessary elements of some crimes. The standard common law test of criminal liability is usually expressed in the Latin phrase‚ actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea‚ which means "the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty". Thus‚ in jurisdictions with due process‚ there must be an actus reus‚ or "guilty act‚" accompanied by some level of mens rea to constitute the crime with which the defendant
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The case involves the mens rea of recklessness. The defendant was a girl of 14 years old who had low intelligence. She lit a fire in a shed. The magistrates applied the test laid down in R v Caldwell but inferred that in his reference to "an obvious risk" Lord Diplock had meant a risk which was obvious to the particular defendant. They acquitted the defendant because they found that the defendant had given no thought at the time to the possibility of there being a risk that the shed and contents
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Logical Data Models into Physical Data Models Susan Dash Ralph Reilly IT610-1404A-01 According to an article written by Tom Haughey the process for transforming a logical data model into a physical data model is: The business authorization to proceed is received. Business requirements are gathered and represented in a logical data model which will completely represent the business data requirements and will be non-redundant. The logical model is then transformed into a first cut physical model by applying
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The Evolution of Data Models The quest for better data management has led to different models that attempt to resolve the file system’s critical shortcomings. Because each data model evolved from its predecessors‚ it is essential to examine the major data models in roughly chronological order. 1.1 The Hierarchical Model A Hierarchical Database Model is a data model in which the data is organized into a tree-like structure. The structure allows representing information using parent/child relationships:
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The Enterprise Data Model Introduction An Enterprise Data Model is an integrated view of the data produced and consumed across an entire organization. It incorporates an appropriate industry perspective. An Enterprise Data Model (EDM) represents a single integrated definition of data‚ unbiased of any system or application. It is independent of "how" the data is physically sourced‚ stored‚ processed or accessed. The model unites‚ formalizes and represents the things important to an organization
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Interesting Quotes from the book * Explaination from the book how each model work and why it is not quite a good idea too rely too much on them * “When the model is too simplistic it might not explain what happened‚ but if it is too complicated‚ the model contains too much noise—just as reality contains too much noise.We all know that we have a financial crisis‚ but we do not immediately see why we have it.” * “The problemis not in themathematics itself. Themodels are inherently logical
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The REA Approach to Database Modeling T his chapter examines the resources‚ events‚ and agents (REA) model as a means of specifying and designing accounting information systems that serve the needs of all of the users in an organization. The chapter is comprised of three major sections. The first introduces the REA approach and comments on the general problems associated with traditional accounting practice that can be resolved through an REA approach. This section presents the REA model and describes
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A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA MODEL Data warehouses and OLAP tools are based on a multidimensional data model. This model views data in the form of a data cube. FROM TABLES TO DATA CUBES What is a data cube? A data cube allows data to be modeled and viewed in multiple dimensions. It is defined by dimensions and facts. In general terms‚ dimensions are the perspectives or entities with respect to which an organization wants to keep records. Each dimension may have a table associated with it‚ called
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Business Decision Models ____________________________________________________________ ________________________ Question 1 (10 marks) Sandra Enright of Techtronics Inc.‚ an electronics supply firm‚ has been examining the times required for stock pickers to fill orders requested from inventory. She has determined that individual order-filling times approximately follow a normal distribution with a mean value of 3.2 minutes and standard
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Mens rea translates to guilty mind‚ it refers to the mental element of a crime. Mens rea must be proved alongside actus reus for a defendant (D) to be guilty of an offence. This was set out in Woolmington v DPP. Specific intent crimes require proof of a higher level of mens rea (ie intention) because of the moral blameworthiness attached to such crimes‚ whereas‚ basic intent crimes require proof only of recklessness. Intention is the highest form of mens rea and has two types‚ direct and oblique
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