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Characterization in stand-up comedy: From Ted Ray to Billy Connolly, via Bertolt Brecht [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Stand-up comedy is often distinguished from straight acting by its apparent lack of characterization-the comedian appearing onstage apparently as him or herself.
Double, Oliver
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Separation of Conjoined Twins and the Principle of Double Effect

open access: yes, 2006
This article examines the relationship between the principle of double effect and justification for separation surgeries for conjoined twins. First, the principle of double effect is examined in light of its historical context.
David Wenkel, Wenkel, David H.
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L’enseignement privé français au Sénégal et l’effet établissement

open access: yesCahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 2004
The private French schools in Senegal give way to a specific School trend. The schools enrolment is specific to the high rates of the tuition fees, to the French diplomas and to the social classes of the pupils mostly issued from the middle classes and ...
Suzie Guth
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Photovoltaic properties enhanced by the tunneling effect in a coupled quantum dot photocell

open access: yesResults in Physics, 2021
Double quantum dots (DQDs) have emerged as versatile and efficient absorbing light devices owing to their more adjusting parameters than the single QD’s.
Sheng-Qiang Zhong   +2 more
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Further Thoughts on Double Effect: Some Preliminary Responses

open access: yes, 1991
Since the papers in this issue by Alan Donagan, Don Marquis, William Nelson and Warren Quinn raise complex and challenging questions about almost every aspect of my "Who is Entitled to Double Effect", I cannot, in the present context, provide more than ...
Boyle, Joseph
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Doctrine of Double Effect

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2016
Each month we take a close look at a recent legal case with implications for the surgical profession.
openaire   +1 more source

The Principle of Double Effect and Medical Ethics

open access: yes, 1986
In one of a series of articles on philosophical medical ethics, Gillon examines the Roman Catholic doctrine of double effect as it applies to discussions of the moral difference between acts and omissions in patient care. The doctrine holds that, in the
Gillon, Raanan
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On Automating the Doctrine of Double Effect [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017
The doctrine of double effect (DDE) is a long-studied ethical principle that governs when actions that have both positive and negative effects are to be allowed. The goal in this paper is to automate DDE. We briefly present DDE, and use a first-order modal logic, the deontic cognitive event calculus, as our framework to formalize the doctrine.
Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu   +1 more
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Moral Absolutism and the Double-Effect Exception: Reflections on Joseph Boyle's Who Is Entitled to Double Effect?

open access: yes, 1991
Joseph Boyle raises important questions about the place of the double-effect exception in absolutist moral theories. His own absolutist theory (held by many, but not all, Catholic moralists), which derives from the principles that fundamental human ...
Donagan, Alan
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Latest results from Double Chooz

open access: yes, 2017
Double Chooz is a short-baseline neutrino disappearance experiment. It detects ν̄e produced in the power plant of Chooz, France, where is located. The main goal of the experiment is the measurement of θ13 mixing angle and in 2011 for the first time the ...
Minotti A., Double Chooz collaboration
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