... certainty Before the issue of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment can be considered, the present condition of the infant must be assessed in the Ethical issuesin withdrawing ... NHS Trust Clinical Ethics Committee (2000) Guidelines on Withdrawing Ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment and Withholding Treatment London: St Mary’s NHS Trust United Nations ... severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renal agenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treatment...
... females Cisplatin Carboplatin Doxorubicin Specific Regimens: VAMP w/COP Low Risk/No Risk: Cytarabine Vincristine Methotrexate Dactinomycin Bleomycin Mercaptopurine Vinblastine Page Risk of infertility ... hormones also increase the risk of bone thinning (osteoporosis) Getting enough calcium and vitamin D (in the diet or by taking a supplement), exercising regularly, and not smoking can help keep ... the timing in mind when deciding on this treatment option The first pregnancy from a frozen embryo was in 1983, and since then thousands of children have been born following embryo freezing Today,...
... in the context of ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... results in the infant becoming involved in a growing number and variety of social relationships In summary, none of the views discussed above provides an adequate account of moral standing In looking ... donor insemination are outlined Elina Hemminki (Chapter 12), a Finnish epidemiologist and health technology assessment expert, approaches antenatal screening from an evidencebased medicine viewpoint...
... causes of cognitive impairment including gadolinium-enhanced brain MRI If clinically indicated, individuals underwent a lumbar puncture to exclude opportunistic brain infection, however of the eight ... determine the importance of HIV DNA in M/MФ in the pathogenesis of HAD In summary, our findings confirm the association between HIV DNA and dementia in HIV-1-infected patients even prior to instituting ... mechanisms to explain the continued prevalence of HAD in the era of HAART Since HIV DNA in M/MФ persists while individuals are on HAART and since monocytes likely play a critical role in HIV-1 neuropathogenesis,...
... encrypted messages being exchanged Such information could be useful to the attacker as it can reveal useful information in guessing the nature of the information being exchanged [2,3] In general, passive ... inserting a record in a file Interception This is an attack on the confidentiality of the network such as wiretapping or eavesdropping to capture data in a network Eavesdropping is easy in a wireless ... eavesdropped from outside the building where the network is operating In most wireless networks, there is a kind of link level ciphering done by the MAC entities Jamming Interruption of service attacks...
... interventions and cloning trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testing speciWc inherited conditions and restricting access through guidelines that limit which ... pertinent Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recognized in ... appear in the introduction of the Wrst international statement in the Weld of bioethics, the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights adopted in November 1997 by UNESCO, including...
... Opinion in Infectious Diseases 12: 21–6 UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998) Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in ... oVspring being infected (if bottle-fed), or of having a termination In addition, until the advent of highly active retroviral treatment (HAART) in the mid-1990s, the prognosis for an HIV-infected ... least in resource-rich countries) since 1994, anonymous antenatal testing inexorably continues in the UK and in several other developed countries (Nicoll et al., 1998) This may be justiWed in countries...
... moral autonomy Instead we might face ‘egoism’, ‘social alienation’, ‘moral indiVerence’ or even ‘moral incapacity’ within such a culture All in all, I claim that the main problem in Wnding global ... not incompatibility between universalist and relativist reasoning or between individualist and collective ethical positions per se First, within Multicultural issuesin maternal–fetal medicine individualist ... that a woman’s rights and interests (in remaining free from outside interference and control) should have priority At other times the child’s rights and interests in having a decent quality of...
... specialized training in infertility treatment can and prescribe infertility drugs without utilizing techniques that would minimize the risk of high-order multiples Whether administered by generalists ... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p 1) At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... decline life-saving or life-sustaining treatment If competent, informed adults have a legal and moral right to die by refusing such treatment, and if there are circumstances in which such refusals...
... to be evaluated in terms of the quality of the additional information obtained and the costs involved in obtaining it It should also be noted that collecting that information in person or over ... the customer is involved in an ongoing relationship with the agency The use of a mail procedure can increase this feeling of anonymity We intentionally avoided using identifying information on ... this type of benchmarking in mind, when it states that "each agency shall use [customer satisfaction] information in judging the performance of agency management and in making resource allocations."...
... technological advancements in digital circuit and VLSI design have spurred an increase in the range of new adaptive filtering applications in fields ranging from biomedical engineering to wireless communications ... structure in Fig 20.5 that has a lossless mapping T in its feedforward path and an arbitrary mapping F in its feedback path The input/output signals of interest are denoted by {x, y, r, v, e} In this ... sections of this chapter, we discuss the combined issues of robustness and convergence from a deterministic standpoint In particular, the following issues are discussed: • We show that each step...
... the amplifier gains within the system can be increased [10] In this application, the input signal to the adaptive filter consists of samples of bandlimited speech It has been shown in experiments ... can draw the following two conclusions regarding this quantity: • The misadjustment increases as the step size is increased • The misadjustment increases as the filter length is increased Both results ... requires more information than is typically available in practice Modeling criteria, such as Akaike’s Information Criterion [18] and minimum description length (MDL) [19] could be used in this situation...
... sewer system; building a new purification treatment plant in the scheduled time with highest quality at provided capital o Solving the existing flooding problem and the increasing environmental ... and international law in related issues Therefore, sometimes, MTH face problems in applying the law to manage the project, which lead to difficulties in inspection and arrange payment among main ... deputy project manger The management of the company including the issues: planning, organizing, leading and controlling is as followed: Planning The contractor makes the plan and submits to Project...
... industry counterpart to reverse engineering in industries that manufacture machinery, including computers In hardware industries, reverse engineering is a common practice, but makers of machinery ... Reinstein advocated that all interfaces be classified as "open." Noting that ideas are often an inseparable part of the interface definition, Reinstein said, "The simplest, most disentangling ... consequences of inhibiting independent innovation— a common occurrence, according to Bricklin, in software development— or of discouraging other desirable aspects of the behavior of innovators and investors...
... title, ‘Emerging Issuesin International Business Research’ The purpose of this forum was to bring together both leading scholars and young rising stars in international business studies in order ... Thunderbird International Business Review In the 1997 issue of Journal of Teaching in International Business, Dr Kotabe was ranked the most prolific international marketing researcher in the world in the ... Cataloging in Publication Data Emerging issuesin international business research / edited by Masaaki Kotabe and Preet S Aulakh p cm — (New horizons in international business series) “The Institute...
... feeding systems are dysfunctional in anorectic tumor-bearing rats NPY injected intrahypothalamically stimulated feeding less potently in rats bearing methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma than in ... signal.76,77 Convergent information suggests that CRF may be involved in triggering changes in gastrointestinal motility observed during stress exposure CRF may induce delayed gastric emptying and gastric ... Leptin-regulated endocannabinoids are involved in maintaining food intake Nature 2001;410:822-825 125 Tanaka Y, Eda H, Fujimoto K, et al Anticachectic activity of 5′-deoxy-5-fluorouridine in a...
... SOUNDINGS discrimination of thin clouds is possible using more highly resolved line absorption information; and (3) spectral measurements enhance the capability of providing other nonsounding information, ... Implementation Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, forthcoming INTEGRATING RESEARCH AND OPERATIONAL MISSIONS IN SUPPORT OF CLIMATE RESEARCH Integrating Research and Operational Missions in Support ... changes in schedules, in program structure, and in fiscal resources, it has been difficult to maintain effective coordination for a sufficient period of time For each measurement set examined in the...
... “frame” of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been increasing since 1950 Note that the ... question, influences on the funding of some research projects (and not others), influences on the outcome of research (i.e., findings), and influences on the dissemination of research findings? Are ... decreased, especially in coal mines The HHS thus assumes (1) that a decline in fatal workplace injuries argues for an improvement in worker health and (2) that the decline in fatal coal-mine accidents...
... easily be separated from a way of thinking in terms of machines, a machine-like way of thinking The recovery of nursing care requires not so much more thinking about the ‘proper place of technology’, ... in the practice of, for example, nursing Studies of ethical issuesin nursing, such as those contained in this book, have a vital role to play as nurse education and nursing practice change in ... may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information...