A qualitative study explored beliefs about active voluntary euthanasia (AVE) in a sample (N = 18) of medical practitioners and nurses from Australia, where AVE is not currently legal. Four behaviors relating to AVE emerged during the interviews: requesting euthanasia for oneself, legalizing AVE, administering AVE to patients if it were legalized, and discussing AVE with patients if they request...

This paper discusses a system capable of detecting when answers for specific questions are supported by snippets, all provided by Question Answering (QA) systems. This task is known as the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) track within the Cross– language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The system uses a set of regular expressions in order to join the question and the answer into an affirmative sentenc...

Mathematicians and physicists have long wondered why the Octionic Projective Plane (OP2), the Freudenthal – Tits Magic Square, or Magic Triangle and certain functions of the Octonions and Sedenions abruptly end. This paper lays out the various elements included in this conundra, with the assumption that irregularities and undiscovered relationships between these structures account for the anoma...

Die Allgemeinverbindlicherklärung von Tarifverträgen (AVE) kann ein Mittel darstellen, die Tarifbindung zu stabilisieren. Inzwischen ist viel über AVE-Praxis einzelner Länder bekannt, wenig jedoch AVE auf Branchenebene. Der Beitrag untersucht Verteilung der zwischen Branchen in Deutschland. In einem most-similar-design vergleicht er, wie Arbeitgeberverbände und Gewerkschaften im Baugewerbe, Ein...

The life cycle of Lutzomyia shannoni (Dyar), was described for laboratory conditions with maximum daily temperature of 27-30 degree C, minimum daily temperatures of 22-27 degree C and relative humidity between 87-99%. Life cycle in each stage was as follows: egg 6-12 days (ave, 8.5 days); first stage larva 5-13 days (ave. 9.6 days); second stage larva 4-13 days (ave. 9.2 days); third stage larv...