HELD: The Alaska Constitution's guarantees of privacy and liberty do not afford terminally ill persons the right to a physician's assistance in committing suicide and Alaska's statute prohibiting suicide assistance does not violate their right of equal protection.

Ill{conditioned problems arise in important areas like geophysics, medical imaging and signal processing. The fact that the ill{cond-itioning is an intrinsic feature of these problems makes it necessary to develop special numerical methods to treat them. Regularization methods belong to this class. The lack of robust regularization methods for large{scale ill{cond-itioned problems motivated thi...

Previous research strongly suggests that morphologically complex words are recognized in terms of their constituent morphemes. A question thus arises as to how the recognition system codes for morpheme position within words, given that it needs to distinguish morphological anagrams like overhang and hangover. The present study focused specifically on whether the recognition of suffixes occurs i...

background: drug utilization evaluation (due) studies are designed to evaluate and improve the rational use of medications. dues have focused on drugs used in high risk patients such as critically ill cases in this study. carbapenems are beta-lactam type antibiotics with broad-spectrum of activity which cover gram-positive, gram-negative and anaerobic bacteria. the heavy use of carbapenems (imi...

objective: there have been concerns about people with mental health problems experiencing harassment in the iranian community. this study measures the prevalence and nature of harassment experienced by individuals with mental health problems and compares them with the general population. methods : face to face interviews were conducted by trained interviewers to ascertain experiences of harassm...

severe sepsis and septic shock are major problems as the result of high rates morbidity andmortality in intensive care units (icus). in the presence of septic shock, each hour of delay inthe administration of effective antibiotics is associated with a measurable increase in mortality.aminoglycosides are effective broad-spectrum antibiotics that are commonly used in icus forthe treatment of life...

fasting is a form of islamic worship to approach god.  there is a direct relationship between fasting, abstaining from eating and drinking, and an individual’s health as well as his ill-health. therefore, it is of utmost importance in the islamic perspective to weigh the spiritual benefits achieved through fasting against its probable harmfulness to an individual’s health. regarding fasting, th...

This paper presents some techniques that provide a standard parsing system for the analysis of ill-formed utterances. These techniques are feature generalization and heuristically driven deletions. PROBLEM Generally the development of grammars, formalisms and natural language processors is based on written language data or, sometimes, not real data at all, but invented 'example sentences'. This...