There are two fundamenta l issues that must be considered when purchas ing any standalone EPLI product. Preferably, these issues will be evaluated before the insurance broker goes to market and begins negotiating more specif ic cove rage terms. First, the policyholder should decide whether it wants a "working layer" program (i.e., a policy wi th re la t ive ly low l i m i t s c o m b i n e d w ...

Clinicians and researchers can often rescue patients or research participants from serious harms. Indeed, they often have a duty to do so—a duty to rescue. Duties to rescue are frequently discussed in the medical ethics literature, but according to Tina Rulli and Joseph Millum they are under-theorised and more problematic than is normally acknowledged. Rulli and Millum outline two widely discus...

AIMS To investigate the effects of a single period of night duty on measures of attention and working memory in a group of residents (registrars) in anaesthesiology. Emphasis was placed on individual deficits using a reference point of the equivalent effect of a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) >0.05% determined by other researchers. METHODS There were 33 subjects aged 26-42 years. Night dut...

This article discusses how prosecutors should conduct themselves in light of the principle that has traditionally ben thought to define the prosecutor’s professional ethos: “the duty to seek justice.” Part I sketches the outlines of this concept, both historically and in its contemporary incarnation. Part II offers two reasons for asking why prosecutors should seek justice. Part III examines al...

objective: this study presents an efficient, cost-effective method to improve proliferation and colonization of spermatogonial stem cells (sscs) in vitro. methods: isolated sscs from neonate mice were cultured in dmem culture medium with 10% fetal bovine serum (fbs). in the first phase of the study, the temperature was controlled by low intensity pulsed ultrasound stimulation (lipus) of the pla...

This paper provides a discussion of stamp duty and its effects. This is followed by an empirical study using changes in the rate of stamp duty in the UK as natural experiments. Because shares will be affected differently depending on how frequently they are traded, we can employ a difference-in-differences methodology. We find that the announcements of cuts in stamp duty had a significant and p...

BACKGROUND Resident duty hours have recently been under criticism, with concerns for resident and patient well-being. Historically, call shifts have been long, and some residency training programs have now restricted shift lengths. Data and opinions about the effects of such restrictions are conflicting. The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Dalhousie University recently moved from a tradi...

after the victory of the islamic revolution of iran a great number of islamic jurists entered the political scene, an event which made iranian politics to a great extent under a legalist approach. considering the structure of law and the way jurists look at reality, they have a different type of personality from other politicians. using the ideal type method, this article attempts to study isla...

Duty hour restrictions for residency training were implemented in the United States to improve residents' educational experience and quality of life, as well as to improve patient care and safety; however, these restrictions are by no means problem-free. In this paper, we discuss the positive and negative aspects of duty hour restrictions, briefly highlighting research on the impact of reduced ...