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    Volume Weighted Measures of Eternal Inflation in the Bousso-Polchinski Landscape

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    We consider the cosmological dynamics associated with volume weighted measures of eternal inflation, in the Bousso-Polchinski model of the string theory landscape. We find that this measure predicts that observers are most likely to find themselves in low energy vacua with one flux considerably larger than the rest. Furthermore, it allows for a satisfactory anthropic explanation of the cosmological constant problem by producing a smooth, and approximately constant, distribution of potentially observable values of Lambda. The low energy vacua selected by this measure are often short lived. If we require anthropically acceptable vacua to have a minimum life-time of 10 billion years, then for reasonable parameters a typical observer should expect their vacuum to have a life-time of approximately 12 billion years. This prediction is model dependent, but may point toward a solution to the coincidence problem of cosmology.Comment: 35 pages, 8 figure

    Bioethics: Health Case Law and Ethics

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    This book provides a rich body of materials for courses in bioethics and law. Primary legal sources, including judicial opinions, statutes, regulations and institutional policies, will give students insight into the strategies used by courts, legislatures, agencies and health care providers in addressing bioethics issues. The book also draws from interdisciplinary research in medicine, ethics, and law to provide students diverse critiques of legal and public policy issues in bioethics. Materials in this text are tightly edited and designed to create high quality and focused classroom discussion, and, the text includes classroom tested problems that will engage students more deeply on each issue.Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics begins with accessible introductory material on how to do ethics analysis. It then provides separate chapters on Reproduction and Birth (including current issues relating to abortion and contraception and issues related to assisted reproductive technologies); Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues in Genetics; Life and Death Decision-making; Regulation of Research Involving Human Subjects; Distributive Justice and Organ Transplantation; and Current Controversies in Public Health (including issues related to immunization practice).https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/1009/thumbnail.jp

    Teacher\u27s Manual to Accompany Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems

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    Copyright page and Table of Contents only.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/1014/thumbnail.jp

    International Encyclopaedia of Medical Laws (Supplement 14 United States of America)

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    Relating to the practice of medicine in the large sense, this subset of the IEL covers national and international medical law. Each national monograph contains, besides a general introduction, a description for the country in question of: the law related to the medical profession, such as access to the medical profession, illegal practice of medicine and control over the practice of medicine; the physician-patient relationship (the rights and duties of physicians and patients) and specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia; and, the national law dealing with the physician in relation to his colleagues, to other health care providers and the health care system.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/1027/thumbnail.jp

    Health Law (Practitioner Treatise Series)

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    Volume One of Two Volume Set. This desk reference explores and interprets the important details of every major issue in health care today. You\u27ll find in-depth discussion of tax, corporate, and organizational issues, as well as governmental initiatives in the areas of cost control, access to health care, anti-competitive activities, fraud, and abuse. The legal and ethical issues involving highly sensitive issues, such as death, reproductive rights, and medical research, are also covered Copyright page and Table of Contents only. Two volume set.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/1013/thumbnail.jp

    Health Care Reform Supplement to Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems

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    Copyright page and Table of Contents only.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/1016/thumbnail.jp

    Liability and Quality Issues in Health Care

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    The Law of Health Care Organization and Finance

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    Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems

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    For more than two decades, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems has defined the field of health law, providing a balanced overview of law as it affects patients, professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver and finance U.S. health care. The 7th Edition of Health Law comprehensively reviews the provisions of the Affordable Care Act with topics such as the oversight of quality (including the latest developments in patient safety), cost control (including consumer-directed health care), guarantees of adequate access to services, exempt-organization tax issues, transactions and relationships among health care professionals and providers, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and malpractice litigation. The Supreme Court decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius is carefully edited to present all the issues in the case.Written without a policy bias to fairly reflect all viewpoints, the book considers legal and ethical issues involving death, human reproduction, medical treatment decision making, and medical research. It also explores the government\u27s efforts to control costs and expand access through Medicare and Medicaid and examines government attempts to police anticompetitive activities, fraud, and abuse. Using carefully edited primary materials and effective classroom-tested problems, the book exposes students to the core issues in health law using the most recent judicial and statutory materials.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/1168/thumbnail.jp
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