Anmeldelse af Tullio Federico Lobetti: Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion

Religion, conscience, and controversial clinical practices.

BACKGROUND There is a heated debate about whether health professionals may refuse to provide treatments to which they object on moral grounds. It is important to understand how physicians think about their ethical rights and obligations when such conflicts emerge in clinical practice. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a stratified, random sample of 2000 practicing U.S. physicia...

Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices

From the Department of Medicine (F.A.C., M.H.C.), the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics (F.A.C., M.H.C., J.D.L.), the Pritzker School of Medicine (R.E.L.), and the Department of Pediatrics (J.D.L.), University of Chicago, Chicago. Address reprint requests to Dr. Curlin at the University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, or at fcurlin@ medicine.bsd.uchicago....

Ascetic convolutional codes

Ascetic convolutional codes contain fewer edge labels than other convolutional codes. This is advantageous in several practical situations. Selecting an ascetic code over a non-ascetic code carries no severe penalty, in terms of trade-off of minimum distance, code rate and complexity.

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

Aggregate Matchings ∗ Federico Echenique

This paper characterizes the testable implications of stability for aggregate matchings. We consider data on matchings where individuals are aggregated, based on their observable characteristics, into types, and we know how many agents of each type match. We derive stability conditions for an aggregate matching, and, based on these, provide a simple necessary and sufficient condition for an obs...