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Killing John to save Mary: a defence of the moral distinction between killing and letting die [PDF]

, 2007
Introduction This paper defends the moral significance of the distinction between killing and letting die. In the first part of the paper, I consider and reject Michael Tooley’s argument that initiating a causal process is morally equivalent to ...
Frowe, H.
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Improving quality of care and outcome at very preterm birth: the Preterm Birth research programme, including the Cord pilot RCT [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND:Being born very premature (i.e. before 32 weeks’ gestation) has an impact on survival and quality of life. Improving care at birth may improve outcomes and parents’ experiences.
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Nurses' Experiences and Perceptions of Evidence‐Based Healthcare Competence: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are pivotal in EBHC implementation; however, its adoption remains limited, highlighting the need to investigate nurses' experiences and perceptions of their EBHC competence. Aim To critically appraise and synthesise qualitative evidence of nurses' experiences and perceptions of EBHC competence. Design A qualitative systematic
Anne‐Mari Hietaniemi, Saija Ylimäki, Henna Härkönen, Hanna‐Maria Hannila, Anna‐Maria Tuomikoski, Anne Oikarinen, Miia Jansson, Tarja Pölkki, Outi Kanste, Maria Kääriäinen   +9 more
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You Can't Be With Your Patients All the Time—Patient and Staff Views of a Wearable Vital Signs Monitoring System

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore staff and patient perception of the newly co‐developed wearable monitoring system (WMS), including acceptability of use in clinical practice. Design Pragmatic qualitative descriptive study. Methods Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 12 patient participants and eight staff members between June 2023 and August 2024 ...
Clare Edwards, Holly Edmundson, Elizabeth King, Cristian Roman, Peter Watkinson, Sarah Vollam   +5 more
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The Outlandish, the Realistic, and the Real: Contextual Manipulation and Agent Role Effects in Trolley Problems

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Hypothetical trolley problems are widely used to elicit moral intuitions, which are employed in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments.
Natalie eGold, Briony D. Pulford, Andrew M. Colman   +2 more
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Small-scale utilitarianism: High acceptance of utilitarian solutions to Trolley Problems among a horticultural population in Nicaragua.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Researchers often use moral dilemmas to investigate the specific factors that influence participants' judgments of the appropriateness of different actions. A common construction of such a dilemma is the Trolley Problem, which pits an obvious utilitarian
Jeffrey Winking, Jeremy Koster
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Thought experiments in current metaphilosophical debates [PDF]

, 2018
Although thought experiments were first discovered as a sui generis methodological tool by philosophers of science (most prominently by Ernst Mach), the tool can also be found – even more frequently – in contemporary philosophy.
Cohnitz, Daniel, Häggqvist, Sören
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Crime, Punishment, and Expectations

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Crime doesn't pay. Or does it? We study the role of expectations regarding sanctions and the likelihood of detection on whether people obey the law. We examine how expectations influence whether people obey the law and conduct simulations of various enforcement counterfactuals.
Mohammad H. Rahmati, David A. Hyman
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The Importance of Clinical Mentorship Through the Lens of Newly‐Graduated Registered Nurses: A Focused Ethnographic Study in a Hospital Setting

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore newly‐graduated registered nurses' professional needs and how these needs are supported by mentors in clinical practice, at two Swedish hospital care units. Background Previous studies show that newly‐graduated registered nurses face challenges on initially starting to provide hospital care, thus needing organisational support ...
Pernilla Berndtsson, Malin Berghammer, Lars Walter, Maria Skyvell Nilsson   +3 more
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Cavitation and ventilation modalities during ditching

, 2019
The flow taking place in the rear part of the fuselage during the emergency landing on water is investigated experimentally in realistic conditions. To this aim, tests on a double curvature specimen have been performed at horizontal velocities ranging ...
Grizzi, Silvano, Iafrati, Alessandro
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