Abstract Obergefell v. Hodges , the 2015 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry, marked first time in Court’s history that justices explicitly disagreed over meaning and requirements of human dignity. In his dissenting opinion Clarence Thomas sought reclaim rather than simply reject language dignity, advancing conception dignity differed sharply...

In this paper we address the problem of filtering obscene lexis in Russian texts. We use string similarity measures to find words similar or identical to words from a stop list and establish both a test collection and a baseline for the task. Our experiments show that a novel string similarity measure based on the notion of an annotated suffix tree outperforms some of the other well known measu...

background and purpose: experience and clinical competence are the important factors affecting the level of dignity and respect for nurses. this study aimed to evaluate the observance rate of respect for nurses from physicians, colleagues, patients and their family members. methods: this study was conducted on 200 nurses selected by census sampling from hospitals of sanandaj, kurdistan, iran in...

For some decades, the concept of human dignity has been widely discussed in bioethical literature. Some authors think that this concept is central to questions of respect for human beings, whereas others are very critical of it. It should be noted that, in these debates, dignity is one component of a long-lasting and widespread conceptual construct used to support a stance on the ethical questi...

Dignity represents the essence of nursing care; hence, nurses are professionally responsible for promoting understanding about the promotion, provision, and preservation of every patient's dignity, while considering contextual differences. The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influence, promote, or compromise patient dignity. A purposeful sample of 14 participants with hospital...

The issue of voluntary active euthanasia was thrust into the public policy arena by the Stransham-Ford lawsuit. The High Court legalised voluntary active euthanasia - however, ostensibly only in the specific case of Mr Stransham-Ford. The Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the High Court judgment on technical grounds, not on the merits. This means that in future the courts can be approached aga...