In an effort to establish a rational diagnosis in severely traumatized children, several authors postulated a refined list of criteria [ 1, 17, 19].
For example, Korsgaard (2004) regards infants and severely cognitive impaired human beings as rational agents – presumably in the sense of being members of the kind "rational agents" – and hence deserving of respect.
However, a rational design of biomaterial surfaces is severely hampered because knowledge is lacking on the underlying biological mechanisms.
Such a view seems to treat animals, infants, and severely cognitively impaired humans, all of whom exhibit only parts of rational nature, as morally on a par.
It is commercially rational to roll over, all the more so given how severely any failure to co-operate is punished.
With careful planning the establishment of NCCP offers the most rational means to achieve cancer control, even where resources are severely limited.
Severely afflicted patients more often require hospitalization, and the rate is therefore more rational.
Focussing on ICH patients who are severely diseased with a high mortality rate and poor prognosis per se, it seems rational that the hemorrhage itself attracts much of the medical attention [ 30].
Stimulating the release of incretin hormones might therefore be a rational potential therapeutic strategy in Type 2 diabetes, provided that the entero-endocrine axis is not severely impaired by ongoing poor glycaemic control.
Given the advantages of time, distance, and a rational mind, it is relatively easy to see that basically everybody involved erred (though some far more severely than others).
