Death not a Painful Process

Entertainment—The Painful Process of Rethinking Consent

"Brain death" is not death.

An Unexpected Sudden Death by Oral Tramadol Intoxication: A Case not Reported Earlier

Background: Tramadol is a widely used centrally acting opioid analgesic and due to its ease of access in Iran as an over-the- counter drug, reported cases of intoxication are rising. Case: A 19-year-old male who was referred to our center, Noor Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, because of confusion, ataxia, agitation and an episode of seizure, followed by inten...

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

A Birth-Death Process for Feature Allocation

We propose a Bayesian nonparametric prior over feature allocations for sequential data, the birthdeath feature allocation process (BDFP). The BDFP models the evolution of the feature allocation of a set of N objects across a covariate (e.g. time) by creating and deleting features. A BDFP is exchangeable, projective, stationary and reversible, and its equilibrium distribution is given by the Ind...