Some patients have no chance of surviving if not treated, but very little chance if treated. A number of medical ethicists and physicians have argued that treatment in such cases is medically futile and a matter of physician discretion. This paper critically examines that position. According to Howard Brody and others, a judgment of medical futility is a purely technical matter, which physician...

We study the classical and quantum ergodic lemon billiard introduced by Heller Tomsovic in Phys. Today 46(7), 38 (1993), for case $B=1/2$, which is a classically system (without rigorous proof) exhibiting strong stickiness regions around zero-measure bouncing ball modes. The structure of uncovered S-plots Lozej [Phys. Rev. E 101, 052204 (2020)]. A unique transport or diffusion time cannot be de...

When the rZZ genes are first introduced into cells which had been previously infected by T4 phage deleted for these genes, the kinetics of synthesis of rZZA and rZZB RNA are rapid and identical. We show that this rapid synthesis depends on a functional motA gene for rZZB, but not for rZZA, RNA synthesis. By primer-extension mapping of T4 messenger RNA, we find three promoters close to the rZZA ...

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We study general energy level spacing distributions of Hamiltonian systems in the transition region between regularity and chaos. The well known Brody distribution, which results from a power-law ansatz for the level-repulsion function, describes the nearest-neighbour spectral spacings. We pursue an analogous ansatz to determine the level spacing distributions of the kth neighbours, which descr...

In this work we study the eigenstates and the energy spectra of a generic billiard system with the use of microwave resonators. This is possible due to the exact correspondence between the Schrödinger equation and the electric field equations of the lowest modes in thin microwave resonators. We obtain a good agreement between the numerical (exact) and experimental eigenstates, while the short r...