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Following on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: The Dynamic Shareholder Derivative Suit [PDF]

, 2013
Corporations that have allegedly violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) increasingly face a new threat of liability: cases brought by private plaintiffs in follow-on derivative suits.
Jara, Gabriela
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Caste as a Social Kind

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

Renouncement of renal replacement therapy: withdrawal and refusal

Brazilian Journal of Nephrology
Renouncement of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a medical dilemma. This review covers the concept, the magnitude, the prognosis, and discusses strategies and management approaches about this subject in patients with CKD and AKI. Evidence suggests that
José Andrade Moura Neto, Ana Flávia de Souza Moura, José Hermógenes Rocco Suassuna   +2 more
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Morte e Morrer em Tempos de COVID-19

Clinical and Biomedical Research, 2021
A pandemia da COVID-19 está tendo impactos em toda a sociedade humana. Muitas questões antes abordadas no plano individual pela Bioética agora tem o desafio de ter o seu enfoque ampliado para toda a sociedade.
José Roberto Goldim, Marcia Santana Fernandes   +1 more
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Team decision making with social learning: human subject experiments [PDF]

, 2018
We demonstrate that human decision-making agents do social learning whether it is beneficial or not. Specifically, we consider binary Bayesian hypothesis testing with multiple agents voting sequentially for a team decision, where each one observes ...
Goyal, Vivek K., Rhim, Joong Bum
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Avoiding medical futility in patients dying in the hospital: a position statement of the Polish Society of Internal Medicine's Working Group on Medical Futility at Internal Medicine Units.

Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, 2023
W. Szczeklik, Małgorzata Krajnik, Jakub Pawlikowski, Małgorzata Szeroczyńska, Piotr Gajewski, Aleksandra Kotlińska-Lemieszek, Piotr Aszyk, Andrzej Muszala, J. Imiela, Tomasz Imiela, J. Górka, Andrzej Kübler, R. Owczuk, Jan Duława   +13 more
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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Frequency of Medical Futility and its Costs in Deceased Neonates with a Probable Diagnosis of Inherited Metabolic Disorder in Children’s Medical Center, Iran

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2022
Background and purpose: Futile medical care is referred to any medical intervention or activity that bring no benefit to patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of futile treatment and its cost in neonates with a probable diagnosis ...
Mahshid Darabi, Leila Shahbaznejad, Mansure Madani, Maliheh Kadivar   +3 more
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Outcomes of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Estimation of Healthcare Costs in Potential ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Cases

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2016
Objectives: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving procedure which may fail if applied unselectively. ‘Do not resuscitate’ (DNR) policies can help avoid futile life-saving attempts among terminally-ill patients.
Akhwand S. Ahmad, Sayed Mudasser, Muhammad N. Khan, Hafiz N. H. Abdoun   +3 more
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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy With Gemcitabine/Cisplatin/S‐1 for Resectable Biliary Tract Cancer With FDG‐PET‐Positive Lymph Node Metastasis (KHBO1201): A Multicenter Phase II Trial

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To evaluate the safety and efficacy of neoadjuvant gemcitabine, cisplatin, and S‐1 (GCS) chemotherapy for resectable biliary tract cancer (BTC) and FDG‐PET‐positive lymph nodes in a multicenter phase II study (KHBO1201). Methods Patients with resectable BTC (intrahepatic/extrahepatic bile duct, gallbladder, or ampullary cancers) and ...
Satoshi Ogiso, Etsuro Hatano, Satoru Seo, Masashi Kanai, Shogo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Wada, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Tatsuya Higashi, Hiroaki Nagano, Tatsuya Ioka   +9 more
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