The Supreme Court of California reversed the Superior Court of Fresno County's decision to dismiss the Turpin's claims in the case Turpin v. Sortini [4] on 3 May 1982. The case was based upon a wrongful life [5] claim, in which a disabled child sues physicians for neglecting to inform its parents of potential genetic defects, resulting in harm to the child when it is born. The Turpin case deter...

1 be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." 15 U.S.C.A. § 1 (1981). Mergers subject to section 1 are prohibited if they constitute a 2 “contract, combination... or conspiracy in restraint of trade." They replace a set of Guidelines issued by the Department in 1968, and are subject to 3 further revision in light of subsequent judicial decisions or economic studies...

Existing representations of cognitive ability structure are exclusively based on linear patterns of interrelations. However, a number of developmental and cognitive theories predict that abilities are differentially related across ages (age differentiation-dedifferentiation) and across levels of functioning (ability differentiation). Nonlinear factor analytic models were applied to multivariate...

This document describes the applicability of Interface to Network Security Functions (I2NSF) to network-based security services in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environments, such as firewall, deep packet inspection, or attack mitigation engines.

What is a "SHOT"? What we are looking for Shot – an abrupt change in the scene i.e. change of scene, change of camera angle (change of active camera). Shot detection in video is also called – video segmentation. If we compare stills image segmentation to video segmentation, then the homogeneous regions in image are homogeneous sequences in video and boundaries in images are actually the shots i...

The Health Services Research & Development Service (HSR&D) focuses on identifying effective and cost-effective strategies for organizing and delivering health care and for optimizing patient and system-level outcomes. HSR&D programs span the continuum of health care research and delivery, from basic research to the dissemination of research results, and ultimately to the application of these fi...

The goal of this study was to enhance an existing automated teller machine (ATM) human–machine interface in order to accommodate the needs of older adults. Older adults were involved in the design and field test of the modified ATM prototype. The design of the user interface and functionality took the cognitive and physical abilities of older adults into account. The modified ATM system include...

The massive increase in nucleotide sequence information available in public and private databases, coupled with advances in mass spectrometry (MS) and the associated search algorithms, have provided the basis for the emerging field of proteomics. The recent announcement of 35 000 or so genes in the human genome was on the low side of the number predicted. Yet, it re-affirms the view that cellul...

Results: First, personality disorder is a form of mental disorder and, therefore, should be classified as a single diagnostic entity on Axis I along with other mental disorders. A preliminary definition of personality disorder as a tripartite failure involving the self system, kinship relationships, and societal relationships is proposed. The evidence suggests that this definition can be transl...