This study concerns Swedish nurses' experiences of workplace stress and the occurrence of ethical dilemmas in a neurological setting. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 21 nurses. The interview results were subjected to qualitative latent content analysis and sorted into 4 content areas: workplace distress, ethical dilemmas, managing distress and ethical dilemmas, and quality of nursing...

Previous studies found that the likelihood of subjects to choose a deontological judgment (e.g., allowing harm) or a consequentialist judgment (e.g., doing harm) varied across different moral dilemmas. The present paper explored if the variation can be explained by the differentiation of the perceived outcome probabilities. We generated moral dilemmas that were similar to the classical trolley ...

currently, cosmetic surgery is spread around the world. several factors are involved in this rapidly evolving field such as socio-economic development, changes in cultural norms, globalization and the effects of western culture, advertising, media, and mental disorders. nowadays the cosmetic surgery is becoming a profitable business, which deals exclusively with human appearance and less from t...

the binding energy and thermodynamic parameters of cis- platinum di ammino chlorine (cis-[pt(nh3)2cl]+) and trans- platinum di ammino chlorine (trans- [pt(nh3)2cl]+) complexes withguanine has been studied by density functional theory (dft) calculations in water. the bindingenergies (ebin) of cis- and trans-[pt(nh3)2clg]+ are calculated to be 79.38 kcal/mol and 74.98kcal/mol, respectively. the b...

In this paper we present a system which automatically generates interactive stories that are focused around dilemmas to create dramatic tension. A story designer provides the background of the story world, such as information on characters and their relations, objects, and actions. In addition, our system is provided with knowledge of generic story actions and dilemmas which are based on those ...

BACKGROUND: All-trans retinol is a biological antioxidantscavenging the ROS in the cell culture. OBJECTIVES: This studywas conducted to investigate the effect of all-trans retinol infertilization and culture medium on mouse embryo's developmentalcompetence. METHODS: This study was designed into twoexperiments. In the first experiment, in vitro mature oocytes wereco-cultured with sperm in fertil...

trans-fatty acids (tfa) are known as a risk factor for coronary artery diseases. trans-11 vaccenic acid [va; 18:1(n-9)], known as the major trans fatty acid in milk fat, is a positional and geometric isomer of oleic acid and a precursor of conjugated linoleic acid (cla) in human . this study was carried out in order to investigate the effect of cis and trans vaccenic acids on expression of intr...

The increasing incidence of requests for medical services to support gender transition for children, adolescents, and adults has consequences for society, governmental institutions, schools, families, health-care professionals, and, of course, patients. The sociological momentum to recognize and accommodate to trans phenomena has posed ethical dilemmas for endocrinologists, mental health profes...

in the recent years, advances in medical technologies for end stage cancer patients' care have affected the end-of-life decision-making in clinical practice and exposed oncologists to serious ethical dilemmas. but little is known about oncologists' viewpoints in our country regarding their ethical problems in this mention. we aimed to clarify the ethical dilemmas which iranian oncologists may f...