The Group Discussion ‘Practical Possibilities of Taking Living Wills into Consideration’

Investigating NLG Architectures: taking style into consideration

In this paper we propose a methodology for investigating the relationship between architectures of natural language generation (NLG) systems and stylistic properties of texts. Biber's (1988) methodology is used to obtain both the characterisation of style of our corpus and the division of the corpus into sets of linguistically similar texts. These sets will be used for studying the architectura...

Living wills and religious communities.

Advance directives and living wills.

The article focuses on the philosophical, ethical and juridical problems concerning Advance directives and Living Wills (underlining analogies and differences). The author makes a critical comparison between the theories supporting Living Wills (the liberal theory appealing to the principle of self-determination and the utilitarian theory on the "quality of life") and the reasons against them (...

Subgrid scale modeling taking the numerical error into consideration

Large eddy simulation (LES) is regarded as one of the most promising numerical methods to predict unsteady turbulent flows at high Reynolds number. In LES the flow field is decomposed into grid and subgrid scales. The grid scale (GS) flow field is computed numerically using discrete filtered Navier-Stokes equation with a model for the subgrid scale (SGS) stress. Therefore, the reliability of th...

The future prospects for living wills.

Following the first enactment of living will legislation in California in 1976 the majority of the states of the USA have now passed similar laws. However, flaws have been identified in the way they work in practice and many states are considering reviewing their legislation. In Britain there is no legislation but the subject is currently commanding considerable interest. This paper assesses th...