The views of people concerning euthanasia are influenced by their fears of enduring intolerable pain, of being trapped by machines beyond their control and of losing bodily integrity and personal dignity in the final stages of their lives. A multitude of achievements in modern medicine and information provided by the mass media serve to reinforce and even provoke a person’s fear of being kept b...

BACKGROUND Repeat self-harm is an important risk factor for suicide. Few studies have explored risk factors for non-fatal repeat self-harm in Asia. AIMS To investigate the risk of non-fatal repeat self-harm in a large cohort of patients presenting to hospital in Taipei City, Taiwan. METHOD Prospective cohort study of 7601 patients with self-harm presenting to emergency departments (January ...

More Efficient Bayesian Optimization Through the Use of Common Random Numbers optimization is a powerful tool for expensive stochastic black-box problems, such as simulation-based or hyperparameter tuning in machine learning systems. In “Bayesian Allowing Numbers,” Pearce, Poloczek, and Branke show how explicitly modeling random seed Gaussian process surrogate model allows to exploit structure ...

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Three studies tested the conditions under which people judge utilitarian harm to be authority dependent (i.e., whether its right or wrongness depends on the ruling of an authority). In Study 1, participants judged the right or wrongness of physical abuse when used as an interrogation method anticipated to yield useful information for preventing future terrorist attacks. The ruling of the milita...