Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

In the 1973 court case Doe v. Bolton, the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that a Georgia law regulating abortion [2] was unconstitutional. The Georgia abortion [2] law required women seeking abortions to get approval for the procedure from their personal physician, two consulting physicians, and from a committee at the admitting hospital. Furthermore, under the statutes, only women ...

One of the simplest and most useful notions in mathematics is that of a group action: if G is a group and X is a nonempty set, then an action of G o n X or a G-set structure on X consists of a multiplication operation G X ! X, with the image of a pair g;x written as, say, gx, with the following axioms satissed: 1 1x = x for all x 2 X here 1 2 G is the identity element o f G; 2 ghx = ghx for all...

The northern part of Cameroon is reported to be vulnerable climate change and heavily dependent on agriculture. However, few studies have considered the evolution climatic data that influence Existing are rarely based field data. assessment precipitation has gained more attention than temperature. Few publications addressed temperature dynamics, this research contributes closing gap by studying...

The aim of the study was to formulate a profile of incidents inside a high security prison for a period of one year. To this end the study surveyed all the closed files related to the incidents in a high security prison for a period of one year. It was found that inmate assault was the most frequently occurring incident and that there is a relationship between an incident and the index offence ...

Edward Charles Dodds [3] researched the function and effects of natural and artificial hormones [4] on the endocrine system in England during the twentieth century. Though he first worked with hormones [4] such as insulin, Dodds focused on the effects of estrogen [5] in the body and how to replicate those effects with artificial substances. In 1938, along with chemist Robert Robinson, Dodds syn...

Committee on Infectious Diseases The Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a recent session, unanimously approved a resolution supporting Immunization Action Month, October 1974, in order to stimulate a more widespread immunization of American children against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, rubella, mumps, pertussis and tetanus. It is completely appropriate , therefore, that the...

Section C In this section we provide additional discussion and descriptive statistics on our sample of loan packages. Section D In this section we analyze the optimal loan contract if the lenders can commit to renegotiation behavior. Section E In this section we derive the competitive equilibrium contract when the bank share k is endogenous. Section F In this section we present an extension of ...