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The missing voices in the conscientious objection debate: British service users’ experiences of conscientious objection to abortion

BMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background The fourth section of the 1967 Abortion Act states that individuals (including health care practitioners) do not have to participate in an abortion if they have a conscientious objection.
Becky Self, Clare Maxwell, Valerie Fleming   +2 more
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Moral Hedging and Responding to Reasons [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, I argue that the fetishism objection to moral hedging fails. The objection rests on a reasons-responsiveness account of moral worth, according to which an action has moral worth only if the agent is responsive to moral reasons. However, by
Hicks, Amelia
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Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp, Eszter Kozák, Natália Tőkési, Lilian Kocsis, Anikó Kelemen, Zsuzsanna Geszti, Adriána Kutás, Mariann Harangi, Ágnes Diószegi, Zsolt Rapi, József Balla, Olivier Le Saux, András Váradi, Viola Pomozi   +13 more
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Causes for Conscientious Objection in Medical Aid in Dying: A Scoping Review

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023
In the light of current legislation on Medical Aid in Dying ─euthanasia and assisted suicide─ in different countries worldwide, there have been some arguments devoted to the right to conscientious objection for healthcare professionals in these specific
Rosana Triviño-Caballero, Iris Parra Jounou, Isabel Roldán Gómez, Maria Teresa Lopez de la Vieja   +3 more
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Defeating Naturalism: Defending and Reformulating Plantinga\u27s EAAN [PDF]

, 2015
: During the past two decades, Alvin Plantinga has formulated an argument against naturalism that focuses on naturalism’s acceptance of contemporary evolutionary theory.
McNabb, Tyler D
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Siting prisons, sighting communities: geographies of objection in a planning process [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reviews the planning process for a Scottish prison located near a former mining village. Analysing the letters of objection submitted by residents offers an opportunity to explore local views about prison and community and to relate these to ...
Apthorpe R, Barry J, Clifford J, Davis A, Flyvberg B, Frisby D, Good A, Hartland R, Legg CJ, Redwood, Reed A, Shore C, Simmel G, Smith H, Stone D, West Lothian Council   +15 more
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Navigating new norms: a systematic review of factors for the development of effective digital tools in higher education

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What factors make for an effective digital learning tool in Higher Education? This systematic review identifies elements of a digital tool that published examples reveal to be features of an engaging and impactful digital tool. A systematic literature search yielded 25 research papers for analysis.
Akmal Arzeman, Jessica Haines, Connie Pritchard, Stephen Rutherford, Nigel Francis   +4 more
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Resistance to Objection in Nonfiction Discourse: Promotive and News Text

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
The topicality of the study of nonfiction journalistic discourse concerning the communicative action of objection is connected with the existing changes which happened in the perception of science by the public and the journalistic interpretation of this
Natalia A. Prokofeva, Ekaterina A. Shcheglova   +1 more
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SPEECH ACTS OF OBJECTION IN THE PLAY LOOK BACK IN ANGER BY JOHN OSBORNE [PDF]

Hum, 2011
This paper studies speech acts of objection within local pragmatic acts extracted from the play Look Back in Anger by John Osborne. In this analysis the theoretical postulates in J.L. Austin, J. Searle and speech act theory, Politeness Principle by P.
Daniela Matić
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Khatib's critiques of the opinions of his early and contemporary scholars in the science of Rhetoric, relying on the first quarter of the "Idhah [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2019
“Al-Idah Fih šarh Talxîs al-Miftâh” is one of the most authoritative educational and analytical books on rhetoric in which Jalal al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Qazvini, the renowned Muslim scientist and scholar of poetics of the 7th and 8th ...
Alimohammad Moazzeni, Zohair Tayyeb
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