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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 2018
Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ   +2 more
doaj  

PLK4: Master Regulator of Centriole Duplication and Its Therapeutic Potential

open access: yesCytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Centrosomes catalyze the assembly of a microtubule‐based bipolar spindle, essential for the precise chromosome segregation during cell division. At the center of this process lies Polo‐Like Kinase 4 (PLK4), the master regulator that controls the duplication of the centriolar core to ensure the correct balance of two centrosomes per dividing ...
Muhammad Hamzah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide Heads to Colorado

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2017
While the outcome of our recent election cycle has represented a country with polarized viewpoints of America’s future policies, one ballot initiative has emerged as a force of consensus.
Tyler Cosmer
doaj   +1 more source

Religiosity and the Wish of Older Adults for Physician-Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 2018
In industrialized countries, population ageing is associated with intense discussions on the issue of dying with dignity. Some countries have legalized assisted suicide and authorized physicians to provide the knowledge and/or means for suffering ...
S. Lapierre   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide as a Remedy for Suffering? The End-of-Life Preferences of British “Suicide Tourists”

open access: yesMedical Anthropology, 2017
The highly charged debate about the moral status of assisted suicide features regularly in the news media in medically advanced countries. In the United Kingdom, the debate has been dominated in recent years by a new mode of death: assisted suicide in ...
N. Richards
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of Ambient and Display Lighting Color on Risk‐Taking Behavior, Perceived Emotional States, and Visual Quality of Indoor Environment

open access: yesColor Research &Application, EarlyView.
In a digital risk‐taking test, participants inflated a balloon to increase earned points at the risk of popping under different display and ambient lighting conditions. ABSTRACT Lighting from architectural fixtures and screens can have impacts beyond visual perception, such as occupants' cognitive functions and emotional states. Despite the ubiquity of
Naser Shehab, Dorukalp Durmus
wiley   +1 more source

The request for assisted suicide – a challenging topic to teach in medical education. Project report on a compulsory elective course at the Aachen University Hospital

open access: yesGMS Journal for Medical Education
Aim: As part of the Erasmus+ project “ELPIS”, a compulsory elective course in palliative medicine on handling wishes to die and the desire for suicide was put into place and offered for the first time at the Clinic for Palliative Medicine at RWTH Aachen ...
Scherg, Alexandra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanisms of Change in Cognitive‐Behavioral Therapy for Adults With Binge‐Eating Disorder: A Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling Approach

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive‐behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most well‐established treatment for binge‐eating disorder (BED), but the mechanisms of change remain poorly understood. This study investigated in CBT for BED the effects of overvaluation of shape and weight and dietary restraint on subsequent objective binge‐eating episodes (OBEs). Method In
Ricarda Schmidt   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonphysician-Assisted Suicide in Switzerland [PDF]

open access: yesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2013
In general, legal responses to endof-life issues are not very different in Switzerland than in most European countries. For instance, active euthanasia (i.e., killing on request) is illegal, although it is treated as a lesser offense than murder or manslaughter.
openaire   +3 more sources

Ecological Momentary Assessment in Eating Disorders Research: A Qualitative Examination of Participant Experience and Recommendations for Future Studies

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a widely‐used research method for investigating temporal relationships among eating disorder (ED) symptoms. Though EMA has many methodological advantages (e.g., reducing retrospective recall bias), little is known about the experience and effects of participating in this type of study from the
Samantha Wilson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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