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The Constitutional Right to Die: Ethical Considerations [PDF]
, 1997 In this commentary, the author first looks at some ethical reasoning supporting physician-assisted dying. Second, he examines some of the lines that have been drawn between withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatment on the one hand, and ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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The taxation of discrete investment choices [PDF]
, 1998 Traditional analysis of the taxation of income from capital has focused on the impact of tax on marginal investment decisions; the principal impact of tax on investment is through the cost of capital, and is generally measured by an effective marginal ...
Devereux, M.P., Griffith, R.
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Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Regression Discontinuity Designs [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental design that estimates the causal effect of a treatment when its assignment is defined by a threshold value for a continuous assignment variable. The RDD assumes that subjects with measurements within a bandwidth around the threshold belong to a common population, so that the threshold ...
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Drawing a Line Between Killing and Letting Die: The Law, and Law Reform, on Medically Assisted Dying [PDF]
, 1993 Traditional medical ethics and law draw a sharp distinction between allowing a patient to die and helping her die. Withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment, such as by abating technological nutrition, hydration or respiration, will cause ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2011 FUNDAMENTO: O manejo ideal da anticoagulação oral (ACO) no período pré- e pós-ablação de fibrilação atrial (FA) ainda é motivo de controvérsia. OBJETIVO: Comparar duas estratégias de anticoagulação: suspensão da warfarina com a utilização de heparina de ...
Eduardo B. Saad +9 more
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The Tight Bound for Pure Price of Anarchy in an Extended Miner's Dilemma Game [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Pool block withholding attack is performed among mining pools in digital cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. Instead of mining honestly, pools can be incentivized to infiltrate their own miners into other pools. These infiltrators report partial solutions but withhold full solutions, share block rewards but make no contribution to block mining.
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Crystal: Enhancing Blockchain Mining Transparency with Quorum Certificate [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Researchers have discovered a series of theoretical attacks against Bitcoin's Nakamoto consensus; the most damaging ones are selfish mining, double-spending, and consistency delay attacks. These attacks have one common cause: block withholding. This paper proposes Crystal, which leverages quorum certificates to resist block withholding misbehavior ...
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Final Withholding Taxation of Portfolio Dividends in the Internal Market [PDF]
, 2019 Tax withholding refers to a procedure for charging taxes, where the payer of the income (withholding agent) charges the tax from the income payable to the income recipient and transfers the charged amount to the tax authorities on behalf of the income ...
Puntala, Anttoni
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Can children withhold consent to treatment? [PDF]
BMJ, 1993 A dilemma exists when a doctor is faced with a child or young person who refuses medically indicated treatment. The Gillick case has been interpreted by many to mean that a child of sufficient age and intelligence could validly consent or refuse consent to treatment. Recent decisions of the Court of Appeal on a child's refusal of medical treatment have
J. A. Devereux +2 more
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, 2019 This article considers the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom case Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James, which was a judgment under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in respect of a seriously ill man who lacked capacity to make decisions
Peart, Nicola
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