Taking a life

Life-saving and life-taking: a comment.

Life history variables and risk-taking propensity

We examined the effects of life-history variables on risk-taking propensity, measured by subjective likelihoods of engaging in risky behaviors in five evolutionarily valid domains of risk, including between-group competition, within-group competition, environmental challenge, mating and resource allocation, and fertility and reproduction. The effects of life-history variables on risk-taking pro...

'Aid-in-dying' and the taking of human life.

In several US states, the legalisation of euthanasia has become a question for voters to decide in public referenda. This democratic approach in politics is consistent with notions of personal autonomy in medicine, but the right of choice does not mean all choices are morally equal. A presumption against the taking of human life is embedded in the formative moral traditions of society; human li...

Life Satisfaction and Risk-taking Behavior in Secondary Schools Adolescents

INTRODUCTION Life satisfaction involves cognitive component that allows evaluation of the life and accomplishments of life, and emotional component that includes an evaluation of emotions and mood that followed these accomplishments. GOAL To examine the life satisfaction of young people who attend secondary school, examine the level of satisfaction with life according to sex, to academic achi...

Identifying Events Taking Place in Second Life Virtual Environments

ion of agent percepts. The rest of the paper is organised as follows. Section 2 contains an introduction to Second Life and Section 3 contains our formalism for virtual environments. Section 4 discusses the challenges and problems in accurately extracting spatio-temporal data from Second Life environments using existing mechanisms. Section 5 presents the new mechanisms that we developed to accu...