recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. a structured int...

BACKGROUND There is a huge interest by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in HIV prevention interventions that build on the religious aspects of being. Successful partnerships between the public health services and FBOs will require a better understanding of the conceptual framing of HIV prevention by FBOS to access for prevention intervention, those concepts t...

* Ph.D., M.D., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Professor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, Texas ABSTRACT: Christian bioethics conflicts with secular morality and its bioethics. From artificial insemination from donors, embryonic stem-cell research, and abortion to passive euthanasia, the commitments of traditional Christian bioethics collide with those of the dominant s...

no studies have been reported on children obesity prevalence of guangzhou, one of the most urbanized areas in china. this study tracks the secular trends of obesity prevalence of children.the data were derived from the surveys on students' constitution and health carried out by government. randomly, 3832 students in 2007, 13141 in 2008, 14052 in 2009, 13750 in 2010, and 15225 in 2011, aged 7-12...

One of the main endeavors of fundamental astrometry is to establish a practical realization of a non-rotating, inertial reference frame anchored to celestial objects whose positions are defined in the barycentric coordinates of the solar system matching the current level of astrometric observational accuracy. The development of astrometric facilities operating from space at a microarcsecond lev...

Although federal legislative policies greatly impact service delivery in local communities because they dictate which organizations will be allowed to participate in federally funded service provision, there has been little, if any, comparative, quantitative analysis of religious and secular organizations within the same geographic context (Vidal 2001). For example, the 1996 Charitable Choice l...

Background: There is a huge interest by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in HIV prevention interventions that build on the religious aspects of being. Successful partnerships between the public health services and FBOs will require a better understanding of the conceptual framing of HIV prevention by FBOS to access for prevention intervention, those concepts ...

In the present paper is concerned with study of thermoelastic interaction in an infinite KelvinVoigt type viscoelastic, thermally conducting solid bordered with viscous liquid half-spaces/layers of varying temperature. Complex secular equations in closed and isolated mathematical conditions for Rayleigh wave propagation in completely separate terms are derived. The results for coupled and uncou...