In this article we examine ethical aspects of the involvement of children in clinical research, specifically those who are incapable of giving informed consent to participate. The topic is, of course, not a new one in medical ethics but there are some tensions in current guidelines that, in our view, need to be made explicit and which need to be responded to by the relevant official bodies. In ...

To my Mom. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Helal for all the encouragement, guidance and above all the motivation that he has constantly provided. He has been of real help providing me with the right direction for this thesis work and writing. Without him the thesis would not have been possible. I also thank Dr. Hammer and Dr. Su for being on my thesis committee. I wou...

Guidance It is gratifying to hear from time to time of the increasing cooperation of educational bodies with the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. The Birmingham Education Committee have recently drawn up a report on their research work and by the courtesy of Dr. Innes we are allowed to reprint it here: The Birmingham Education Committee have always realised the importance of explori...

Background: Paraganglioma of the urinary bladder (PUB) is exceedingly rare, accounting for <0.1% of all urinary bladder tumors. Various challenging treatment options are available. Case Presentation: A 67-year-old female presented with malignant hypertension on four medications for which investigation was done. An observation of having functioning PUB was noted. She was admitted and laparoscopi...

in this paper, the problem of finite time stabilization for guidance system is investigated and a novel nonlinear guidance law against maneuvering targets is proposed based on the principles of parallel navigation. the proposed law is developed using two variable structure control techniques. by applying finite time integral sliding mode and combining it with terminal sliding mode, a new guidan...

In this paper we consider the problem of air to ground missile guidance system using fuzzy controller. The missile model is assumed as three degree of freedom (3DOF) (assuming the analysis in the vertical plane only).The homing guidance method is used. This paper presents numerical results for applying the fuzzy controller to the missile in different situations of control parameters in differen...

Ayurved is an eternal science with sound & absolute principles. Prakruti is an important concept of Ayurveda & plays a very important role in the designing lifestyle of a person for maintenance of health. At the time of union of sperm & ovum, predominance of trigunas, panchamahabhutas & doshas decide the prakruti or constitution of every individual. Once this proportion is set, generally it rem...