Reincarnation facing with some religious Objections

Accommodating religious and moral objections to neurological death.

Robert S. Olick, JD, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, [email protected]. Eli A. Braun, BA, served as a Research Associate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University when this article was written. Joel Potash, MD, is Professor Emeritus at the Center for Bioeth...

The religious objections and military opposition to anesthetics, 1846-1848.

On some early objections to Bohm’s theory

Recent literature on Bohm’s alternative to mainstream quantum mechanics may create the misleading impression that, except for perfunctory dismissals, the theory was ignored by the physics community in the years immediately following its proposal. As a matter of fact, Einstein, Pauli, and Heisenberg all published criticisms of Bohm’s theory, explaining their reasons for not accepting the theory....

Some User Objections to Fluorescent Lighting*

TT is about 10 years since 5-foot tubular fluorescent lamps were first used in this country for factory lighting. At first, and throughout the years of war, only one type of lamp, designated as " white," was made available, and the use of this was controlled and limited to vital factories and other war establishments where there was special need, not only of good artificial lighting, but also o...

How healthcare professionals respond to parents with religious objections to vaccination: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND In recent years healthcare professionals have faced increasing concerns about the value of childhood vaccination and many find it difficult to deal with parents who object to vaccination. In general, healthcare professionals are advised to listen respectfully to the objections of parents, provide honest information, and attempt to correct any misperceptions regarding vaccination. Rel...

Some challenges facing Transactional Memory

Evaluating Transactional Memory: TM’s advantages with respect to locks can be categorized roughly into to two categories: those relating to performance (optimistic execution and fine-grain synchronization) and those relating to programmability (no need to associate a synchronization variable to critical sections, natural composition, fault tolerance, and avoiding priority inversion). To date mu...