'Thou Shalt Not Covet ...': Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Thou Shalt Covet Thy Neighbor's Cake

The problem of fairly dividing a cake (as a metaphor for a heterogeneous divisible good) has been the subject of much interest since the 1940’s, and is of importance in multiagent resource allocation. Two fairness criteria are usually considered: proportionality, in the sense that each of the n agents receives at least 1/n of the cake; and the stronger property of envy-freeness, namely that eac...

Thou shalt not kill.

Section 241(b) and s. 14 of the Criminal Code unjustifiably infringe s. 7 of the Charter and are of no force or effect to the extent that they prohibit physicianassisted death for a competent adult person who (1) clearly consents to the termination of life and (2) has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that ...

Doctor, thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt versus thou shalt not: a meta-synthesis of GPs' attitudes to clinical practice guidelines.

BACKGROUND GPs' adherence to clinical practice guidelines is variable. Barriers to guideline implementation have been identified but qualitative studies have not been synthesised to explore what underpins these attitudes. AIM To explore and synthesise qualitative research on GPs' attitudes to and experiences with clinical practice guidelines. DESIGN OF STUDY Systematic review and meta-synth...

Thou Shalt Not Diversify: Why ‘two of Every Sort’?

This paper presents a study of the intertemporal propagation of distributional properties of phenotypes in general polygenic multisex inheritance models with sexand timedependent heritabilities. It further analyzes the implications of these models under heavy-tailedness of traits’ initial distributions. Our results suggest the optimality of a flexible asexual/binarymating system. Switching betw...