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https://www.academia.edu/83366284/Self_Determination_Dignity_and_End_of_Life_Care_Regulati…

… shorten patients’ life. But what when patients have lost their decision-making capacity due to a condition that is not likely to be reversible (e.g. persis- tent vegetative state, coma, severe head injury, dementia, etc.)? At present, an increasing number of people wish to make …

https://www.academia.edu/109396166/Self_determination_dignity_and_end_of_life_care_regulat…

… shorten patients’ life. But what when patients have lost their decision-making capacity due to a condition that is not likely to be reversible (e.g. persis- tent vegetative state, coma, severe head injury, dementia, etc.)? At present, an increasing number of people wish to make …

https://www.academia.edu/106552856/Europe_in_Crisis_Crime_Criminal_Justice_and_the_Way_For…

…oment) international crime are those that possess the politi‐ cal and financial capacity to pass on or to accept such debt. The list is confined to a few natural persons, inter‐governmental organizations, as well as corporations in the form of funds, banks and other financial ins…

https://www.academia.edu/44470709/Governance_of_Arctic_Shipping_Rethinking_Risk_the_Human_…

…07; IMO 2009; Arai et al. 2009; Slabbekoorn et al. 2010). There is very limited capacity to respond in a timely and effective manner to a spill of heavy fuel oil in an area with extensive sea ice presence. Virtually the entire response capacity would need to be transported over g…

https://www.academia.edu/45581344/_Un_Equal_Pathways_to_Higher_Education_Social_Origins_an…

…the development of an equality-related analysis in education on account of its “capacity to be a critical and generative force” (Lynch, 2006, p. 86). A broadly accepted thesis in sociology of education since 17 the 1960s is the existence of inequality of educational opportunities…

https://www.academia.edu/103191451/Muslim_Family_Law_in_Sub_Saharan_Africa_Colonial_Legaci…

… the legal sphere. Because the superior power in the protec- torate assumed the capacity to enter into international agreements, it also assumed some of the characteristics of the ‘sovereign’ state. For example, the superior power often took over jurisdiction of capital crimes an…

https://www.academia.edu/85313528/W_Banks_S_Pockett_and_S_Gallagher_eds_2006_Does_Consciou…

… argues that we should understand consciousness not as a naturally given mental capacity but rather as a social institution. The thesis is that conscious- ness is not a brute fact of nature, but rather a matter of social construction. In this sense it is causally efficacious for …