Irish public opinion on assisted human reproduction services: Contemporary assessments from a national sample

Walsh, David J.,Sills, E. Scott,Collins, Gary S.,Hawrylyshyn, Christine A.,Sokol, Piotr,Walsh, Anthony P.H. The Korean Society for Reproductive Medicine 2013 Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine Vol.40 No.4

Objective: To measure Irish opinion on a range of assisted human reproduction (AHR) treatments. Methods: A nationally representative sample of Irish adults (n=1,003) were anonymously sampled by telephone survey. Results: Most participants (77%) agreed that any fertility services offered internationally should also be available in Ireland, although only a small minority of the general Irish population had personal familiarity with AHR or infertility. This sample finds substantial agreement (63%) that the Government of Ireland should introduce legislation covering AHR. The range of support for gamete donation in Ireland ranged from 53% to 83%, depending on how donor privacy and disclosure policies are presented. For example, donation where the donor agrees to be contacted by the child born following donation, and anonymous donation where donor privacy is completely protected by law were supported by 68% and 66%, respectively. The least popular (53%) donor gamete treatment type appeared to be donation where the donor consents to be involved in the future life of any child born as a result of donor fertility treatment. Respondents in social class ABC1 (58%), age 18 to 24 (62%), age 25 to 34 (60%), or without children (61%) were more likely to favour this donor treatment policy in our sample. Conclusion: This is the first nationwide assessment of Irish public opinion on the advanced reproductive technologies since 2005. Access to a wide range of AHR treatment was supported by all subgroups studied. Public opinion concerning specific types of AHR treatment varied, yet general support for the need for national AHR legislation was reported by 63% of this national sample. Contemporary views on AHR remain largely consistent with the Commission for Assisted Human Reproduction recommendations from 2005, although further research is needed to clarify exactly how popular opinion on these issues has changed. It appears that legislation allowing for the full range of donation options (and not mandating disclosure of donor identity at a stipulated age) would better align with current Irish public opinion.

Treatment of Hyperlipidemia in Women

Walsh, Judith M. E.,Grady, Deborah MediMedia Korea 1996 JAMA-Korea Vol.11 No.2

Instilling defect tolerance in new compounds

Walsh, Aron,Zunger, Alex Nature Publishing Group 2017 Nature materials Vol.16 No.10

Introduction of Speech Pathology for the Otolaryngologist

Walsh, Sheil M.,M.A., B.S. 대한이비인후과학회 1971 대한이비인후과학회지 두경부외과학 Vol.14 No.2

Win, lose or draw? The fate of patented inventions

Walsh, J.P.,Lee, Y.N.,Jung, T. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland) 2016 RESEARCH POLICY Vol.45 No.7

Using information from a survey of US inventors, this study explores the reasons for patent non-use and different types of non-use at the patent level, and how this varies by industry and firm characteristics. We find that 55% of triadic patents are commercialized. We also find that 17% of all triadic patents are not commercialized but are at least partially for preemption, though only 3% of all triadic patents are purely preemptive patents. We find that preemptive non-use is less common than failed patents. We then test the discriminating effects of patent effectiveness, competition, firm size and fragmentation of patent rights on the likelihood of preemptive patents. We find that greater patent effectiveness, more competition, and large firm size are associated with greater preemptive non-use relative to commercial use of patents. We conclude with the policy implications of our results.

Impact of Airway Virus in Severe Asthmatic Patients: A Pilot Study

Walsh Laura J,Sullivan Ashley,Ward Christopher,Fanning Liam J,O’Byrne Paul M,MacSharry John A,Murphy Desmond M 대한천식알레르기학회 2023 Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research Vol.15 No.3

The lungs have their own microbiota which seems to be altered in disease processes such as asthma. Viral infection accounts for many asthma exacerbations. Little is known about the lung virome, and the role that viruses play in non-exacerbating asthmatics. We aimed to assess if detection of virus in bronchoscopy samples of asthmatic patients in a non-exacerbating state influences their asthma control and modulates airway cytokine composition. Patients were recruited from a specialist asthma clinic and underwent bronchoscopy with standardised bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Viral analysis was performed; cell differential and cytokine levels were measured. Forty-six samples were obtained of which 10.8% demonstrated evidence of airway virus, and 91.3% of patients in the cohort were classed as severe asthmatics. Oral steroid use was significantly higher in severe asthmatic patients with virus detected, and the forced expiratory volume in one second tended to be lower in the virus-detected group. It was also found that BAL interleukin-13 and tumor necrosis factor-α levels were significantly higher in severe asthmatic patients with virus detected. Our results suggest that in severe asthmatics in a non-exacerbating state, the presence of virus resulted in overall poorer asthma control. The pattern of cytokine elevation seen in asthmatic patients with virus detected may provide insight to the pathophysiology involved.

Endoscopic Management of Large Peripancreatic Fluid Collections in Two Pediatric Patients by Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided Transmural Drainage

Walsh, Leonard T.,Groff, Andrew,Mathew, Abraham,Moyer, Matthew T. The Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology 2020 Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition Vol.23 No.1

The incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) has increased in the pediatric population over the past few decades and it stands to follow that the complications of severe AP, including symptomatic pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs) will increase as well. In adults, the therapeutic options for this situation have undergone a dramatic evolution from mainly surgical approaches to less invasive endoscopic approaches, mainly endoscopic ultrasound-guided transmural drainage (EUS-TD) followed be direct endoscopic necrosectomy if needed. This has proven safe and effective in adults; however, this approach has not been well studied or reported in pediatric populations. Here we demonstrate that EUS-TD seems to offer a safe, efficacious and minimally invasive approach to the management of large PFCs in pediatric patients by reviewing two representative cases at our institution.

Cultural Patterns in Korean Administration

Walsh,J.E. 연세대학교 산업경영연구소 1963 산업과경영 Vol.1 No.1

The observations and analyses of various cultures and the subsequent publication of these insights by travelers and other persons foreign to these cultures is the world literature, particularly in the fields of sociology and anthropology.

Risk Assessment/Risk Management of Motor Vehicle Emissions

Walsh,Michael P. 漢陽大學校 環境 및 産業醫學硏究所 1991 環境과 産業醫學 Vol.1 No.1

통일사상에 있어서의 윤리론

Walsh, Thomas G. 선문대학교 통일사상연구원 1996 통일사상 연구논총 Vol.1 No.-

본 논문은 통일사상의 윤리론의 일반적인 소개를 위한 시도이다. 필자가 본 논문을 통해 언급할 통일사상의 내용은 1988년 통일사상개요라는 미 출판본이다. 본내용은 통일사상과 통일사상요강으로 불리는 통일사상의 초고에 근거하고 있다. 여기서는 통일사상의 윤리론의 내용뿐만 아니라 그것과 서양사상의 일반적인 윤리이론과의 관계를 언급한다. 덧붙여 필자는 통일윤리론의 현대상황에 대한 탁월한 공헌을 확인한다. 한편 통일사상은 인간의 창조성과 자유를 회생시키지 않고 규범적인 질서의 요구를 주장하며, 윤리적 상대주의에 강력한 도전을 하고 있다. 다른 한편으로 통일사상은 그 자체를 가정의 규범에 중심을 두고 근대와 현대 윤리학자들이 간과한 점인 가정에 대한 사회적, 그리고 심리적 중요성에 우리의 주의를 이끌고 있다. 다음의 제2장은 서양윤리론의 일반적인 개관을 포함하고 있다. 이 부분은 이미 윤리론에 상당히 친숙한 사람들에게는 반드시 읽어야할 필요는 없을 것이며, 그러한 사람들은 통일사상과 다른 서양 철학 윤리의 주요 입장과의 관계에 대한 간략한 요약을 한 후에 다룰 제3장의 통일사상의 윤리론의 해설로 넘어가고 싶을 것이다. 마지막 장은 주로 통일사상이 윤리론에 공헌한 점에 관하여 다루고 있다. 통일사상은 포스트모던(후기 현대)와 포스트 막시스트(후기 마르크스) 시대를 거쳐 그 이후에도 인류를 인도해 줄 수 있는 윤리적 관점을 제공한다. New functions of AZEOPERT [Kim and Simmrock, 1997] were investigated to predict the occurrence of ternary azeotropes and their azeotropic compositions in an organic mixture. This study describes its new problem-solving strategy. The knowledge base of AZEOPERT for ternary azeotropes is hierarchically structured with the several levels of domain-specific knowledge on ternary azeotropy. First, an azeotropic data bank including ternary azeotropic experimental data was implemented in AZEOPERT as the lowest level. It may be used to determine whether or not ternary azeotropic experimental data for the consulted organic mixture are already available. Moreover, compiled heuristic knowledge as the second level and class-oriented model-based knowledge as the highest level were implemented in the knowledge base. The problem-solving strategy through the integration of model-based reasoning into compiled reasoning gives a very efficient, general way for the prediction of ternary azeotrope formation in a wide varitey of organic mixtures, and especially, in unknown mixture systems.