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Planning for the End of Life for People with Dementia - Part 2 [PDF]
, 2011 This publication is a discussion about additional end-of-life options which may become legally available at some time in the future, i.e., assisted death (usually called euthanasia or assisted suicide).
Colleen Cartwright
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Multi‐Site Transfer Classification of Major Depressive Disorder: An fMRI Study in 3335 Subjects
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The study proposes graph convolution network with sparse pooling to learn the hierarchical features of brain graph for MDD classification. Experiment is done on multi‐site fMRI samples (3335 subjects, the largest functional dataset of MDD to date) and transfer learning is applied, achieving an average accuracy of 70.14%.
Jianpo Su +14 more
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 This paper presents a study on the use of AI models for the classification of case reports on assisted suicide procedures. The database of the five Dutch regional bioethics committees was scraped to collect the 72 case reports available in English.
Giovanni Spitale +3 more
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The Rhetoric of Neutrality and the Philosophers’ Brief: A Critique of the Amicus Brief of Six Moral Philosophers in Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill [PDF]
, 1998 Church discusses the amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in the companion assisted suicide cases of Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, in which six philosophers offer their views.
Church, Richard
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.BioE is a new diiron oxygenase that catalyzes the conversion of long‐chain acyl groups into pimeloyl thioester, initiating biotin synthesis. The overexpression of EmBioE disrupts lipid metabolic homeostasis, requiring repressor BioL to maintain a balance between long‐chain fatty acids and biotin synthesis.
Meng Zhang +9 more
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The assisted suicide of Italians in Switzerland and the silence of psychiatry [PDF]
, 2018 The debate on different forms of request of death has taken on a broad dimension in public opinion over last years, often referring on profoundly differentiated and often opposing positions of principle.
Bersani, Giuseppe +2 more
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Astrocytic PERK Deficiency Drives Prefrontal Circuit Dysfunction and Depressive‐Like Behaviors
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Chen et al. show that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress sensor PERK is downregulated in prefrontal cortex (PFC) astrocytes in major depressive disorder and in chronic‐stress mouse models. In young mice, astrocyte‐specific PERK loss reduces the synaptogenic cue thrombospondin‐1 (TSP1), leading to synaptic and circuit deficits and depressive‐like ...
Kai Chen +8 more
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Escape from New York: Analyzing the State\u27s Relative Interests in Proscribing the Withdrawal of Life Support and Physician-Assisted Suicide [PDF]
, 2003 This Note argues that states cannot consistently prohibit physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients while they continue to allow the withdrawal of life support for even non-terminal patients.
Miller, Colin
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Nursing and euthanasia : a narrative review of the nursing ethics literature [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Medical Assistance in Dying, also known as euthanasia or assisted suicide, is expanding internationally. Canada is the first country to permit Nurse Practitioners to provide euthanasia.
Burgess, Michael +7 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.In this work, we showcased two significant scientific advances in (i) developing a portable biosensor technology for rapid decentralized prostate cancer urinary biomarker testing and reporting, with superior performance to current clinical testing practice; and (ii) proposing a clinical validation framework (for our biosensor development) which can be ...
Kevin M. Koo +14 more
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