OBJECTIVE To examine the variability in accepting different types of gifts by clinical specialty as well as job rank among physicians working in Saudi Arabia. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out between March and July of 2012 in different regions of Saudi Arabia. A self-administrated questionnaire was developed and administered to all participants, both in paper and electronic ...

Two ethical frameworks have dominated the discussion of organ donation for long: that of property rights and that of gift-giving. However, recent years have seen a drastic rise in the number of philosophical analyses of the meaning of giving and generosity, which has been mirrored in ethical debates on organ donation and in critical sociological, anthropological and ethnological work on the gif...

The NEW GIFT Nile tilapia is a national certificated new strain produced through 14 years and 9 generations selection from the base strain of GIFT Nile tilapia. From NEW GIFT Nile tilapia two strain-specific RAPD bands namely S304 and S36 were identified from the amplified bands of 50 and 80 10bp-oligo-nucleotide random primers separately after gel extraction cloning and sequencing of the strai...

Motivation: Given multi-platform genome data with prior knowledge of functional gene sets, how can we extract interpretable latent relationships between patients and genes? More specifically, how can we devise a tensor factorization method which produces an interpretable gene factor matrix based on gene set information while maintaining the decomposition quality and speed? Method:WeproposeGIFT,...

When a single gift goes to a group of recipients, how does giving depend on the size of the group? This question is important for understanding charitable giving and fund-raising, public goods provision, family altruism, and more. If we think of the gift as giving up a dollar to create a social surplus, then we want to know how the number of recipients of that surplus affects its value to the g...