INTRODUCTION 657 L HISTORICAL ORIGINS 660 A, Emergence of the American Medical Association 661 B, Relationship Between Law and Ethics ,. 664 C, Reluctance to Treat 666 IL IN THE ABSENCE OF AN "EMERGENCY" 668 K. Americans with Disabilities Act 669 B. Direct Threat 671 C. Specialists 674 D, State Laws 676 E, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act 678 in. EMERGENCY LEGAL FRAMEWORK 682 A,...

This paper investigates domestic and foreign innovating firms’ determinants of R&D collaboration with domestic universities and public knowledge institutes in Finland and the Netherlands. We put particular emphasis on the impact of incoming academic spillovers on the probability to co-operate with these public R&D institutes. Based on data from Community Innovation Surveys we find that foreign ...

Although recent initiatives in Australia have attempted to respond to the needs of children and young people with care responsibilities, many continue to be unable to access responsive supports. A qualitative, exploratory study was conducted to identify the current needs and barriers to services for young carers and their families in Canberra, Australia. This paper focuses on a range of family,...

Studies uniformly conclude that union wage effects are largest for work­ ers with low measured skills. Longitudinal analysis using 19891901994195 Current Population Survey matched panels produces union pre­ mium estimates equivalent across skill groups, following appropriate sam­ ple restrictions and control for worker-specific skills. Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on ...

We combined a prototypical exogenous cuing procedure with rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) to provide a precise characterization of the temporal dynamics of reflexive attention shifts. The novel paradigm thus created has several useful properties, most notably that the physical presentation of the target is neither an onset nor a unique event and that temporal precision is provided witho...

Mirceaclassic survey of shamanism across the world explicitly omittedAfrica from consideration Ironically this has encouraged the misleading impressionthat there are virtually no shamans in Africa and that the theme of mystical flightis also absent This view elaborated by Luc De Heusch and many other anthroTHEQUEST IN AFRICA135 pologists ignores or underestimates great d...

THIS is the account of a series of 100 cases of stillbirth, compared 1 with 100 livebirths, from observations supplied by their family doctors. The primary aim of the study was to discover the psychological effects of stillbirth on the mother and her family, following clinical experience that disabling mental complications had followed stillbirths in some women who appeared previously to be nor...

Surrogacy has existed since Biblical times when Hagar, the maidservant of the infertile Sarah, acted as a surrogate to bear Sarah and her husband, Abraham, a son. Despite the longevity of the practice of surrogacy, modern society has been reluctant to embrace surrogacy arrangements due to the ethical and sometimes practical debates they spark. This reluctance is evidenced by the general lack of...

The rather poor students’ performances and the reluctance of students to attend courses were the motives for a project that entails the redesign of conventional statistics courses, into courses designed according to the characteristics of a competence-based approach that integrates research methods, statistics and psychology subjects into holistic authentic tasks throughout the psychology curri...

International challenges such as climate change, poverty, and intergroup conflict require countries to cooperate to solve these complex problems. However, the political tide in many countries has shifted inward, with skepticism and reluctance to cooperate with other countries. Thus, cross-societal investigations are needed to test theory about trust and cooperation within and between groups. We...