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Killing spinor space-times and constant-eigenvalue Killing tensors [PDF]

, 2010
A class of Petrov type D Killing spinor space-times is presented, having the peculiar property that their conformal representants can only admit Killing tensors with constant eigenvalues.
arxiv   +1 more source

Hidden symmetries and Lie algebra structures from geometric and supergravity Killing spinors [PDF]

Class. Quantum Grav. 33 (2016) 165002, 2016
We consider geometric and supergravity Killing spinors and the spinor bilinears constructed out of them. The spinor bilinears of geometric Killing spinors correspond to the antisymmetric generalizations of Killing vector fields which are called Killing-Yano forms. They constitute a Lie superalgebra structure in constant curvature spacetimes.
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"Euthanasia" in ancient Rome - historical and legal aspects

Journal of Modern Science
Objectives The purpose of this paper is to analyse the euthanathic homicide in the ancient Rome. The author is looking for answers to the questions: How did the ancient Romans understand euthanasia?
Piotr Sadowski
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Coevolution of Mercy and Altruistic Cooperation [PDF]

arXiv, 2007
Besides altruistic punishment and group selection, we argue that, mercy can lead to altruistic cooperation. Modeling the micro economic behavior of the mercy, with two alleles of genes (Cooperation or Defection & Mercy or No mercy) agents in a network, we present the computational simulation results in the spatiotemporal evolution game theory frame to ...
arxiv  

Euthanasia and Death with Dignity [PDF]

Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, 2016
Dying has become imposition upon humans, who seek to avoid it as they encounter the inevitably fatal aging process. After the case of Aruna Shanbag a nurse who spent 42 years in a vegetative state as a result of sexual assault, the issue of ...
Yuvraj Dilip Patil
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Euthanasia in South Africa: Philosophical and theological considerations

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
Debates on euthanasia (or mercy killing ) have been a concern in moral, philosophical, legal, theological, cultural and sociological discourse for centuries.
Mojalefa L.J. Koenane
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What medical conditions lead to a request for euthanasia? A rapid scoping review

Health Science Reports
Background and Aims Euthanasia is a controversial issue related to the right to die. Although euthanasia is mostly requested by terminally sick individuals, even in societies where it is legal, it is unclear what medical conditions lead to euthanasia ...
Zahra Rahimian, Leila Rahimian, Jorge Lopez‐Castroman, Jeyran Ostovarfar, Mohammad J. Fallahi, Mohammad A. Nayeri, Hossein M. Vardanjani   +6 more
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On the Case of Child Euthanasia

Voices in Bioethics, 2014
Opponents of legalizing physician assisted suicide (“PAS”) argue that legalization would create a slippery slope leading to the legalization of euthanasia (also known as “mercy killing”).
Gabriella Foe
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Complex Generalized Killing Spinors on Riemannian Spin$^c$ manifolds [PDF]

arXiv, 2013
In this paper, we extend the study of generalized Killing spinors on Riemannian Spin$^c$ manifolds started by Moroianu and Herzlich to complex Killing functions. We prove that such spinor fields are always real Spin$^c$ Killing spinors or imaginary generalized Spin$^c$ Killing spinors, providing that the dimension of the manifold is greater or equal to
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Euthanasia in Serbia: In Need of Enhanced Debate and Regulation

European Journal of Bioethics, 2016
The aim of this paper is to point to the presence of paternalism and disrespect of the principle of autonomy in the current Serbian legal framework regarding euthanasia.
Milijana Djeric
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