In considering the second version of the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) opted for a position of ‘neutrality’,1 changing its earlier opposition to physician assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary euthanasia (VE).2 ‘Neutrality’ towards this second version of the bill, however, was controversial, being perceived as a change to indifference or tacit ...

This paper presents the work toward developing a new comprehensive database for Arabic off-line handwriting recognition. The database includes: isolated Indian digits, numerical strings, Arabic isolated letters, and a collection of 70 Arabic words. Also, the database includes a free format sample of an Arabic date. A data entry form was designed to collect written samples from Arabic native spe...

Previous architectures in the literature for computing the matching cost report no benefit from using color information [3, 1]. In our experiments we observed that after deepening our network, the use of the three input channels contributes to the accuracy of the disparity prediction, especially around areas of delicate color differences between the object and its background. An example for thi...

The effect of varying donor X in otherwise structurally similar O(2)S(2)X-macrocycles (L(1): X = S, L(2): X = O and L(3): X = NH) on the corresponding assembly reactions with Cu(I) halides has been demonstrated to yield three supramolecular complexes with different architectures: L(1) resulted in a discrete dimeric complex (1), while L(2) and L(3) gave respectively 1D (2) and 2D (3) coordinatio...

The stability analysis of islanded inverter-based microgrids (IBMGs) is increasingly an important and challenging topic due to the nonlinearity of IBMGs. In this paper, a new linear model for such microgrids as well as an iterative method to correct the linear model is proposed. Using the linear model makes it easy to analyze the eigenvalues and stability of IBMGs due to the fact that it derive...

Background: Handwriting problems are one of the common problems among students in the early years of education. The current study aimed to determine further validation aspects of the Persian Handwriting Assessment Tool (PHAT) in primary school-aged children.Methods: The current methodological study was conducted on 452 healthy 8-10-year-old students in Tehran, Iran, selected via random cl...

The Randomized Response Technique (RRT) is a survey method especially developed to improve the accuracy of answers to questions on threatening topics. This paper reports the results of two meta-analyses on RRT studies, the first on the results of six individual validation studies, and the second on 31 comparative studies. The focus of these metaanalyses was on the performance of RRTs compared t...