Selective non-treatment decisions involving severely handicapped neonates have recently come under renewed judicial and legislative scrutiny. In this Article, the Author examines the legal, ethical and social considerations attendant to the non-treatment decision. In Part II of this Article the Author discusses the predominant ethical viewpoints relating to this issue and proposes a new moral s...

Related factors of low back pain (LBP) among school personnel were investigated. We designed a cross-sectional study employing questionnaires, which included a Japanese version of the Job Content Questionnaire. Subjects consisted of 3306 male and 3184 female school personnel in all public schools and kindergartens operated by Nagoya City, Japan. Prevalence of LBP in each work category was compa...

A microanalysis was conducted of the behaviors of examiners and handicapped children during videotaped testing sessions in which handicapped students performed better with familiar than with unfamiliar examiners. The children spoke significantly more often and longer when tested by familiar examiners. Familiar examiners (a) exercised more frequent and longer intervals of silence than unfamiliar...

Aim: To assess the oral health status of handicapped children attending various special schools. Objective: To assess oral hygiene practice, dental caries and treatment needs, gingival and periodontal treatment needs malocclusion status. Materials and Methods: The study group consisted of 263 subjects out of which 155 were males and 108 females. Results: 67% of subjects used tooth brush to clea...

In this report, the raypath equation is deduced by using plane wave theory and making high frequency approximation. Two kinds of two-point seismic ray tracing iterative nonlinear methods(the Shooting method and the Bending method) are discussed. The Shooting method fixes one end and apply the raypath equation to find the ray path. The Bending method fixes both ends and use Fermat’s principle to...

In this thesis we prove the existence of m-armed spiral wave solutions for the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in the circular and spherical geometries. Instead of applying the shooting method in the literature, we establish a functional approach and generalize the known results of existence for rigidly-rotating spiral waves. Moreover, we prove the existence of two new patterns: frozen spirals...

Recommended by Kanishka Perera In a recent paper, Sun et al. (2007) studied the existence of positive solutions of nonhomo-geneous multipoint boundary value problems for a second-order differential equation. It is the purpose of this paper to show that the shooting method approach proposed in the recent paper by the first author can be extended to treat this more general problem. This is an ope...

In this paper, we investigate the following quasilinear and singular problem : { −∆pu = λ uδ + u q in Ω u|∂Ω = 0 , u > 0 in Ω (1) where Ω is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary, 1 < p, p− 1 < q and λ, δ > 0. We first prove that there exist weak solutions for λ > 0 small in W 1,p 0 (Ω)∩C(Ω̄) if and only if δ < 2+ 1 p−1 . Investigating the radial symmetric case (Ω = BR(0)), we prove by a s...