Accepting “Boiling Energy”:

Accepting brain death.

death was determined by means of multiple independent neurologic examinations, including one ordered by a court. Her family refused to accept that she had died and went to court to prevent physicians at Children’s Hospital and Research Center in Oakland from discontinuing ventilator support. Per a court-supervised agreement, the body was given to the family 3 weeks after the initial determinati...

Detecting All Accepting Cycles

Are surgeons accepting bribes?

he relationship of orthopedic surgeons to medical device companies has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months. A front-page article in the September 22, 2005, issue of The New York Times reported that a Louisiana orthopedic surgeon paid $10,000 in fines after state investigators determined that his consulting agreement with an implant manufacturer was an improper conflict of interest u...

Accepting gifts from patients.

Appreciative patients often present their family physicians with gifts, an apparently simple act that can raise complex issues in the care relationship. There are no definitive regulations regarding accepting gifts from patients, and opposing views exist. Some believe physicians should never accept gifts because it might influence the standard of care or weaken the fiduciary relationship. Other...

Mixture Boiling

This chapter provides the engineer and the researcher with correlations and models for the prediction of the critical aspects of the boiling heat transfer of mixtures. This chapter offers a reliable, hands-on resource for solving common problems across pool boiling and flow boiling applications such as miscible mixtures, refrigerant/lubricant mixtures, additives, and refrigerant/nanolubricants....