issues. The question is whether the patient has the ability to understand her choices of the moment and to be reasonably consistent in reflecting her preferences. A person who is not fully able to understand all the risks and potential outcomes of surgery or a complex illness may well be competent to decide that she wants no more aggressive care, or that she wants “everything done.” A person do...

The speech act is an indispensable part of social communication. Among them, the acts between Chinese parents and their children have received more extensive attention in-depth research. Under theory act, this study makes a on changes family members during winter vacation from perspective politeness principle, cross-cultural differences, other factors. Based relevant theories, attempts to analy...

sea shores of gilan province is one off the biggest tourist attractions in iran. this area have valuable forests and grasslands. in addition it provides significant amount of corps like rice, tea, olive. considering this facts, environmental protection of this area must be priority for national government. however waste management instruction have been ratified in iran, there isn’t any specific...

The implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (EU-WFD) forms the background of the WAgriCoproject (Water Resources Management in Cooperation with Agriculture). WagriCo concentrates on the development of nitrogen management options adapted to hydrological and agro-economic site conditions and at demonstrating new participation approaches and technologies suitable for settingup programme...

Determining what proportion of the public has completed an advance directive and which population subgroups complete or do not complete such a directive is crucially important for planning purposes. Our research objective was to examine and compare advance directive completion, intention to complete, and noncompletion rates among citizens of one Canadian province. A telephone survey was conduct...

The primary goal was to specify the impact of scaffolding and overhearing on young children's use of the spatial terms between and middle. Four- and five-year-old children described the location of a mouse hidden between two furniture items in a dollhouse with assistance from a parent. Children's use of between and middle increased significantly across trials, and in concert, parents' directive...

OBJECTIVES To report doctors' views about the European Working Time Directive ('the Directive'). DESIGN Survey of the medical graduates of 2002 (surveyed in 2013-2014). PARTICIPANTS Medical graduates. SETTING UK. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Questions on views about the Directive. RESULTS The response rate was 64% (2056/3196). Twelve per cent of respondents agreed that the Directive had bene...