Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...

background: in the recent years, new medical technologies and their probable misusing have emerged public concerns about medical ethics. medical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues in clinical medicine. methods: in this study we reviewed some new methods of teaching medical ethics in other countries by sea...

CHANCE, BWTON, IRVING A. SALKOVITZ, AND ARISTID G. B. ~VACH. Kinetics of mitochondrial javoprotein and pyridine nucleotide in perfused heart. Am. J. Physiol. 213(l): 207-218. 1972.-Fast activation of mitochondrial electron transport can identify the nature and magnitude of their metabolic energy load. Flash photolysis activation of CO-inhibited cytochrome oxidase in the presence of oxygen initi...

L systems are parallel rewriting systems which were originally introduced in 1968 to model the development of multicellular organisms, [L1]. The basic ideas gave rise to an abundance of language-theoretic problems, both mathematically challenging and interesting from the point of view of diverse applications. After an exceptionally vigorous initial research period (roughly up to 1975; in the bo...

An Ethics Opinion reflects the interpretation or application of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy)/Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)Codeof Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics by the Ethics Committee. This interpretation or application by the Ethics Committee is in response to a specific ethics issue facing the Registered Dietitian/Nutrition (RDN) or Dietetic Technician,...

since the publication of anscombe’s famous paper “modern moral philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. at least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. this article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

Lindenmayer systems (L-systems) were introduced by Aristid Lindenmayer to generate the geometrical structures, i.e. plant, leaf, or root structures. During the last decade in L-systems prototype, the plant growth has been animated by composing images from all iterations. The problem is the development of plant model at each time step is nonsmooth and discontinuous. In this paper, we solve this ...

Ethics questions and conflicts will always be commonplace in rural health care practices. Despite the ethics knowledge and skills that clinicians and administrators may possess, ethics conflicts are stressful and time-consuming because of the inherent uncertainty surrounding such conflicts. To manage the potential negative effect of ethics conflicts, health care professionals and institutions s...