This Article begins in Part I with a doctrinal evaluation of the status of Washington v. Glucksberg ten years after that decision was handed down. Discussion begins with consideration of the Roberts Court's recent decision in Gonzales v. Carhart and then turns to the subject of Justice Kennedy's views in particular on substantive due process. In Part II, the Article goes on to consider whether ...

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) often face ethical dilemmas, but ethical principles analogous to those of clinical ethics have not been established to guide resolution of such dilemmas. To date, most progress in business and organizational ethics has been made in developing processes that promote responsible behavior in complex organizations. In this article we offer a normative framework to gu...

A critical objective for applications of multivariable regression analysis is evaluation of both substantive importance and statistical significance, yet many articles focus excessively on inferential statistical tests at the expense of substantive issues. I demonstrate approaches for writing clear sentences to interpret the real-world meaning of estimated coefficients from ordinary least squar...

In empiricalmodeling, an important desiderata for deeming theoretical entities and processes as real is that they can be reproducible in a statistical sense. Current day crises regarding replicability in science intertwines with the question of how statistical methods link data to statistical and substantive theories and models. Different answers to this question have important methodological c...

We examine over 100 top performing Canadian firms in visibly polluting industries as we seek to answer four research questions: What specific environmental issues are firms addressing? How do these issues differ between industries? Are both symbolic and substantive actions financially beneficial? Does green-washing, measured as the difference between symbolic and substantive action, and/or gree...

Missing covariate data commonly occur in epidemiological and clinical research, and are often dealt with using multiple imputation. Imputation of partially observed covariates is complicated if the substantive model is non-linear (e.g. Cox proportional hazards model), or contains non-linear (e.g. squared) or interaction terms, and standard software implementations of multiple imputation may imp...

Games are seen as attractive potential learning tools because of their ability to engage players and immerse them in situations that invite application of content and skills. However, it is not always clear whether educational games encourage players to utilize particular cognitive processes, access appropriate prior knowledge concepts, and/or apply given procedural skills as intended. Research...

to be considered trademark, symbols and emblems must be missing some situations (negative substantive conditions) and have some conditions (positive substantive conditions). non-traditional marks, especially those which are visible such as colors and three-dimensional marks face challenges in order to comply with these conditions.some declare that such mark are not registrable they strictly bel...