Interests and their conflicts

Non-financial conflicts of interests in psychiatric research and practice.

Not all conflicts of interests affecting psychiatry are financial in nature. Our field is vulnerable to some varieties of nonfinancial conflicts of interests. Examples include the possible conflict between a researcher's allegiance to a school of thought and the integrity of psychotherapy research, or between a psychiatrist's political commitment and patients' welfare.

Advance directives: navigating conflicts between expressed wishes and best interests.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 91, Number 7 ◆ April 1, 2015 Case Scenario L.S. is a 70-year-old man with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He is intubated and unconscious in the intensive care unit with pneumonia complicated further by acute renal failure. His advance directive, completed seven years ago when he was highly functional, indicates that he wants lifesustaining treatments. He...

Management of Wolf and Lynx Conflicts with Human Interests

In this note a simple cowboy wannabe is expressing his sincere but insufficientgratitude towards some of the people who has made his studies possible and fun.However, I have had so much help from so many people it would be impossible tothank them all in this thesis. Thus it is only the top of the ice berg that is properlyacknowledged on the following pages. For example many of m...

Conflicts of Interests in the Representation of Children

Defining Parallel Automata and their Conflicts

We define and classify a family of parallel automata (for Real-Time and Telecommunication modeling) in the context of a synchronous execution. First, an abstract form of Parallel automata is proposed as a generalization of various "Extended-Finite-statesMachines" found in the literature. Then, two implementable forms of Parallel Automata are presented : A "global Parallel automaton with private...