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End-of-Life Practices in the Intensive Care Unit: The Importance of Geography, Religion, Religious Affiliation, and Culture

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2014
End-of-life decisions are made daily in intensive care units worldwide. There are numerous factors affecting these decisions, including geographical location as well as religion and attitudes of caregivers, patients, and families.
Marc Romain, Charles L. Sprung
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Withholding and withdrawing treatment for cost‐effectiveness reasons: Are they ethically on par? [PDF]

, 2019
In healthcare priority settings, early access to treatment before reimbursement decisions gives rise to problems of whether negative decisions for cost-effectiveness reasons should result in withdrawing treatment, already accessed by patients.
Jan Liliemark, Lars Sandman, Liliemark, Jan,, Sandman, Lars,   +3 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Segurança da ablação de fibrilação atrial com RNI terapêutico: comparação com a transição com heparina de baixo peso Safety of ablation for atrial fibrillation with therapeutic INR: comparison with transition to low-molecular-weight heparin

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, Ieda P. Costa, Rodrigo E. da Costa, Luiz Antônio O. Inácio Jr, Charles Slater, Angelina Camiletti, Dario G. de Moura Neto, Paulo Maldonado, Luiz Eduardo Camanho, Carisi A. Polanczyk   +9 more
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Hemodialysis as a life-sustaining treatment at the end of life

Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2018
The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life came into effect on February 4th, 2018, in South Korea.
Sung Joon Shin, Jae Hang Lee
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Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette, Reece Mills, Terri Bourke, Simone White, Martin Mills, Lisa van Leent   +5 more
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Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores what can be learned when educational research “fails.” Drawing on a Welland Trust–funded project in the North East of England that aimed to support care‐experienced students transitioning from further to higher education, we reflect on why, despite sustained effort, there was a lack of engagement.
Lynette Harland Shotton, Tom Disney, Andrea Carrick, Laura Thurman   +3 more
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Dynamic, Unconstrained Optimization of Secreted Enzyme Production in Fed‐Batch Fermentation Using Reinforcement Learning

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to control a wide range of dynamic processes, especially ones that are too complex to model well or have stochastic environmental perturbations. Fed‐batch fermentations are subject to changes in starting cell growth rates and process variations that can affect cell growth and secreted target production.
Sai Harish Uthravalli, Sakib Ferdous, J. Michael Hess, Nigel F. Reuel   +3 more
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The Influence of Corporate Sustainability Rating Methodology on Disclosure Behavior

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has illuminated long‐standing concerns over the ability for sustainability rating schemes to accurately convey sustainability‐related performance of firms. This study theorizes and empirically examines how a detailed and transparent rating methodology influences what information
Patrick J. Callery
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The Role of Institutional Pressures in Technology Adoption for Low‐Carbon Manufacturing

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing research highlights that the adoption of low‐carbon technologies in manufacturing operations is shaped by the external environment. However, limited understanding exists regarding how technology‐related uncertainty interacts with institutional pressures to influence firms' adoption strategies.
Diellza Salihu, Mika Immonen, Aleksi Harju   +2 more
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