PRACTICAL AND ETHICAL COMPLEXITIES OF MAID: EXAMPLES FROM QUEBEC [VERSION 2; PEER REVIEW: 2 APPROVED, 1 APPROVED WITH RESERVATIONS]

Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: Examples from Quebec [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Background: Legally practiced assisted dying is an ethically complex area in need of empirical and conceptual work.International research suggests that providing assisted dying may be experienced as rewarding and meaningful but also emotionally and psychologically taxing, associated with feelings of loss and loneliness.Yet little research has been

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Explosivity Properties of Dusts from Torrefied Biomass Pellets

A modified Hartmann tube apparatus was used to study the explosivity properties of dusts from torrefied biomass pellets.The sensitivity of the dusts to explode was assessed by determining the minimum ignition energies (MIE) and the minimum explosible concentrations (MEC).The severity of the explosion was evaluated by flame front velocity (FFV) meas

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