The U.S. Supreme Court will decide later this year whether to let stand decisions by two appeals courts permitting doctors to help terminally ill patients commit suicide. The Ninth and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals last spring held that state laws in Washington and New York that ban assistance in suicide were unconstitutional as applied to doctors and their dying patients. If the Supreme Cou...

Since smoking is implicated in many diseases, medical professionals are expected to contribute to the reduction of smoking rates in their practice. Medical students are also expected to learn the importance of practical measures against smoking. This study surveyed the smoking rates and attitudes to smoking among medical students of the Nagoya University School of Medicine. Out of 612 students ...

This paper describes a parallel parsing method for analysing ill-formed inputs with consideration of full syntactic context. The method is developed to handle ill-formed inputs using tree searching scheme which is exible to utilize any kind of task distribution to gain parallelism. We choose dynamic task distribution as a core mechanism to control distributing tasks during the parsing process. ...

For a square matrix normed to 1, the normwise distance to singularity is well known to be equal to the reciprocal of the condition number. In this paper we give an elementary and selfcontained proof for the fact that an ill-conditioned matrix is also not far from a singular matrix in a componentwise sense. This is shown to be true for any weighting of the componentwise distance. In words: Ill-c...

There is little information about the size of the reservoir of seriously ill patients from which patients admitted to medical beds in hospital are drawn, and indeed, the impression is widely held that all serinously ill patients are cared for in hospital. Taylor (1960) pointed out that any planning of the future of the hospital services must take account not only of trends in population structu...

Background. Wrestling is one of the most popular sports in the world. United World Wrestling have developed “Wrestling+” injury prevention program similar to the FIFA 11+. Objectives. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of 12 weeks “Wrestling+” warm-up program on Functional Movement Screen scores in cadet wrestlers. Methods. The study population included all cadet wrest...