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Quality of Life
For the first time this book brings together many of the important essays that have shaped the debate on the quality of life.
The Other Elites
Contains 13 contributions, divided into four sections: theoretical and comparative perspectives on women as political executives; institutional perspectives on women as officeholders in the executive branch; institutional perspectives on the President, Congress, and the Courts; and policy and participations issues relating to women as executive activists and as citizens. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Deciding to Forego Life-sustaining Treatment
Abstract: A comprehensive report by the US President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research addresses some of the most important and troubling ethical and legal questions in modern medicine for consideration by health care professionals, lawyers, and relatives of patients regarding the sensitive topic of voluntary cessation of life-sustaining therapy for the seriously ill. It was concluded that the cases that involve true ethical difficulties are much fewer than commonly believed and that the perception of difficulties primarily occurs because of misunderstandings about the dictates of law and ethics. It also is concluded that, while competent informed patients have the authority to decline or accept health care, others must act on the behalf of incompetent patients. The report urges that health care institutions develop and use internal review methods that permit exploration of all relevant issues. The 7 report chapters are grouped around 2 themes: the various aspects of making treatment decisions; and patient groups raising special concerns (e.g.: permanently-unconscious patients; seriously-ill newborns. (wz).
Neurology in Clinical Practice
New edition, completely rewritten, with new chapters on endovascular surgery and mitochrondrial and ion channel disorders.
The President's Cabinet
Borrelli (government, Connecticut College) examines women's selection for, and exclusion from, U.S. cabinet positions, from the 1930s through the first year of George W. Bush's administration. She considers the ways in which the rhetoric used in the selection and confirmation of secretaries-designate has set gendered expectations for the performance of the nominees once in office. Coverage includes the presidential politics of cabinet nominations; profiles of the secretaries-designate by demographic, educational, professional, and political characteristics; media coverage of cabinet nominations; the confirmation process; the ways in which women secretaries-designate have been perceived as representatives; and possible implications for the near future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Source Book in Bioethics
Government agencies and commissions, courts, and legislatures have during the past several decades produced reports, rendered decisions, and passed laws that have both defined the fundamental issues in the field of bioethics and established ways of managing them in our society. Providing a history of these key bioethical decisions, this Source Book in Bioethics is the first and only comprehensive collection of the critical public documents in biomedical ethics, including many hard-to-find or out-of-print materials. Covering the period from 1947 to 1995, this volume brings together core legislative documents, court briefs, and reports by professional organizations, public bodies, and governme...
Biological Report
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Wildlife Review
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Frequency Domain Design of Robust Controllers for Space Structures
The purpose of the Phase 1 effort was to investigate and demonstrate the feasibility of a new class of computational algorithms for the design of high performance control laws for flexible space structures based on frequency response modeling and to consider advanced techniques for the implementation of real time control for precision (wide bandwidth) applications. Typical applications requiring advanced realtime control of flexible space structure include vibration suppression and isolation of payload subsystems. Performance of vibration suppression and isolation systems are critical factors effecting achievable levels of performance for space based optical systems. In the Phase 1 effort, a prototype software code was developed for testing computational algorithms for spectral factorization, causal projection, and coprime factorization-critical steps in frequency domain design of precision control laws. Keywords: Computer programs; Mathematical models; Algorithms.
