Listed below are some concept papers produced at the Institute (e.g.; Coming Collapse of Income Tax; Future of Libraries; Findability vs Spyability; Frictionless Vehicles & Binary Power; Fractal Transactions/New Money Era...
International delegates agreed Friday that the world has the technology and money to limit catastrophic global warming...Promptly adopting biofuels, renewable energy sources and greater energy efficiency can mitigate worldwide disaster, according to a rep
Schlage Shows New Security Features At the Consumer Electronics Show 2010Schlage will preview new capabilities for its Schlage LiNK home-management system at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas that allow Schlage wireless keypad locks to be...
National clinical guidelines on the care of people in a vegetative or minimally conscious state, following severe brain injury These long-awaited guidelines will be a major contribution to clinical and ethical standards of care for this group of patients, not only in the UK but internationally. For England and Wales, they provide much needed clarity on legal decision-making. You can buy a print copy of the guidelines (130 pp, £15) from our online shop, or download a free PDF below. The guidelines were developed by a panel of experts in the field, who have organised complicated and wide-ranging information into six coherent sections: 1 Defining criteria and terminology 2 Assessment, diagnosis and monitoring 3 Acute to longer-term management 4 Ethical and medico-legal issues 5 End-of-life issues 6 Service organisation and commissioning Each section is followed by a set of clear recommendations.
25th July 2013: The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) made Advance Decisions to refuse treatment legally binding in statutory law in 2005, and Compassion in Dying has been providing free information on end of life and Advance Decision forms since 2010. A new study, which looked at in excess of 200 calls to Compassion in Dying, found that a major barrier to patients exercising choice was doctors’ failure to engage with patients about their Advance Decision and the lack of systems in place to record them. Two callers reported considering a ‘DNR tattoo’ as a way of addressing this problem. The study also found women (84% of callers) are more likely than men (16%) to make their wishes known at the end of life. Professor Sue Wilkinson, author of the report and Professor of Feminist and Health Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University said: “This study has led to a number of recommendations for Compassion in Dying, and more broadly for the integration of Adva...
M. Tanenblatt, A. Coden, and I. Sominsky. Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta, Malta, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), (May 2010)