the fewcountries intheworldwhere euthanasia is legally allowedwithin a specific juridical framework.Evenmore unique is the inclusion of grounds for requestingeuthanasia onthe basis of mentalsuffering.Furtherrefinementofthe legal, medical andpsychiatric approachto the issue is required in order to clear up essentialpractical and ethicalmatters. Psychiatrists and their professional organisationsn...

In Spain, any person under the age of 18 is a minor. Generally, minors lack the legal capacity to take legally binding actions because they are deemed incapable of legally binding consent. Spanish civil law recognises, however, that the child, in accordance with the law and being sufficiently mature, may act for himself. It stands, then, that consent, as expressed by the "sufficiently mature" m...

The paper presents a novel method for domain specific sense assignment. The method determines the domain specific relevance of GermaNet synsets on the basis of the relevance of their constituent terms that cooccur within representative domain corpora. The approach is task independent and completely automatic. Experiments show results on three selected domains: business, soccer and medical.

For a variety of reasons the activities performed by health care professionals are ever increasing, however the legislative process regulating these specialised workers is not keeping up with the practice realities. While competency statements and credentialling mechanisms are developing, they are not uniformly in place for specialists. Therefore activities completed by these practitioners may ...