In animal ethics a Right to Life has been postulated repeatedly, but no valid argument has been produced yet. Thus the question of a Right to Life in animal ethics remains unanswered. It is remarkable that no philosopher has yet found a valid argument against Epicurus (there is nothing fearful in the absence of life). On the other hand, there is, again based upon Epicurus' argument, a basic mor...

when in doubt over duty and the absence of reason, it is the time for adhering to practical principle; but, there is disagreement among principalists as to what is the rimary rule in times of doubt. some scholars including nāīnī have accepted intellectual innocence as a primary rule, whereas others - especially shahīd sadr -believe in intellectual precaution. nāīnī refers to the rule ‘the indec...

As a set of supervised pattern recognition methods, support vector machines (SVMs) have been successfully applied to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) field, but few studies have focused on visualizing discriminative regions of whole brain between different cognitive tasks dynamically. This paper presents a SVM-based method for visualizing dynamically discriminative activation of who...

In this paper, sliding mode control (SMC) for a bidirectional buck/boost DC-DC converter (BDC) with constant frequency in continuous conduction mode (CCM) is discussed. Since the converter is a high-order converter, the reduced-order sliding manifold is exploited. Because of right-half-plan zero (RHPZ) in the converter’s duty ratio to output voltage transfer function, sliding mode current...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the interdisciplinary care, including chiropractic services, in a military health care facility of an active duty member of the United States Navy with low back pain, leg pain, and foot numbness. CLINICAL FEATURES A 40-year-old patient developed low back pain, leg pain, and foot numbness after moving furniture. The patient described his symptoms ...

The paradigm of Emergency Medicine (EM) is to provide the right care at the right time in the right place by the right professionals. This requires a combination of key service elements to be brought together, including triage, resuscitation, mobile response units (ambulances, trauma helicopters, blue lights) and out of duty services. In Holland, integration of Emergency Medicine has been empha...