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The Ethics of Placebo-controlled Trials: Methodological Justifications [PDF]
, 2013 The use of placebo controls in clinical trials remains controversial. Ethical analysis and international ethical guidance permit the use of placebo controls in randomized trials when scientifically indicated in four cases: (1) when there is no proven ...
Grady, Christine, Millum, Joseph
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Nourishment or Punishment: Nutrition support towards the end of life
World Nutrition, 2023 Artificial nutrition support during the end-of-life is deemed non-beneficial. Withholding nutrition when the patient is near death is a controversial and ethical dilemma that families and healthcare workers face.
Madrika Mirza Kanjiani, Amber Qasim
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BMC Veterinary Research, 2021 Background An association between equine gastrointestinal disease causing colic signs and changes in faecal bacterial microbiota has been identified. The reasons for these changes and their clinical relevance has not been investigated.
Jaclyn A. Willette +6 more
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Higher-Order Defeat and Withholding Judgment
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Defeat by higher-order evidence needs defending. Maria Lasonen-Aarnio argues powerfully for the conclusion that higher-order evidence does not have an unlimited capacity to defeat justification. While developing her main argument Lasonen-Aarnio poses two
Earl Conee
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Strategic Capacity Withholding by Energy Storage in Electricity Markets [PDF]
, 2017 : Although previous work has demonstrated the ability of large energy storage (ES) units to exercise market power by withholding their capacity, it has adopted modeling approaches exhibiting certain limitations and has not analyzed the dependency of the ...
Moreira +3 more
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background Euthanasia can be thought of as being either active or passive; but the precise definition of “passive euthanasia” is not always clear. Though all passive euthanasia involves the withholding of life-sustaining treatment, there would appear to ...
Iain Brassington
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Extending taxation of interest and royalty income at source : an option to limit base erosion and profit shifting? [PDF]
, 2014 This paper discusses tax policy measures to reduce corporate tax avoidance by extending taxation in the source country without imposing double taxation.
Finke, Katharina +3 more
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MedicinaBackground/Objectives: The change in critically ill patients makes limitation of therapeutic effort (LTE) a widespread practice when therapeutic goals cannot be achieved. We aimed to describe the application of LTE in a post-surgical Intensive Care Unit (
Ángel Becerra-Bolaños +5 more
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IEEE Access, 2020 To overcome the fast-changing block withholding attacks among multiple mining pools composed of miners in the blockchain system, this paper proposes a mining pool computing power allocation (MPPA) algorithm, which significantly improves the revenues of ...
Yourong Chen +5 more
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Evapotranspiration and grain yield of upland rice as affected by water deficit
Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2016 To achieve an accurate phenotyping for drought tolerance, it is important to control water stress levels and timing. This study aimed to determine water use by upland rice plants during periods of irrigation withholding and its relationship with grain ...
Cleber M. Guimarães +2 more
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