The Nature Of Design - Oxford University Press - Part 4 pot

... essential to add another dimension to the archi- tecture of science buildings. How, for example, might the present-day counterparts of Thomas Midgley Jr. be warned about the fallibility of human intelligence ... clear-headed view of the human predicament in the twenty- first century. John’s professional work, both written and built, is a legacy in the form of a challenge...

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... erosion. The speed of the horse, in other words, allows the Amish to pay attention to the minute particulars of their farm and how they farm. By a similar logic, he waits to cut hay until the bobolinks ... wisdom. In large part the difference, whether they thought about it or not, was the speed of the society. It is time to consider the possibility that, for the mo...

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... condition and weaken the public mind. The exercise of their economic power cre- ates dependencies that undermine public resolve. Their sheer perva- 92 THE POLITICS OF DESIGN the terms of the law should ... communi- 94 THE POLITICS OF DESIGN § 3 THE POLITICS OF DESIGN mankind. Similarly, the issue of parking, here and elsewhere, is an op- portunity to educat...

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... muscle- bound version of the self-confidence about scientific and technical progress, the expansion of production, the growing satisfaction of human needs, the mastery of nature (including human nature) , ... calibrates the sum total of our actions with the larger cycles of the earth. When we do so, design at all scales entails not just the making of things, b...

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... otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Orr, David W., 1 944 –. The nature of design : ecology, culture, and human intention ... sketch the ed- ucational implications of design. In the final section the essays lay out a standard for design that is oriented to generosity in the large...

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... is important to note that, for the majority of adult-onset, multifactorial genetic Chapter 0 64. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 4) Figure 6 4- 2 disorders, testing is purely ... integrated into the practice of medicine. In most cases, however, the discovery of disease-associated genes has greatly outpaced studies that assess clinical outcomes...

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... representing another confounding variable in the pedigree analysis. Some of the aforementioned features of the family history are illustrated in Fig. 6 4- 1 . In this example, the proband, a 36-year-old ... carrying the disease-associated alleles will manifest a clinical disorder. Furthermore, genes associated with some of these disorders often exhibit variable expressi...

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... understand the probability of disease risk for themselves and other family members. It is also important to impart the concepts of disease penetrance and expression. For most complex adult-onset ... disorder The complexity of genetic counseling and the broad scope of genetic diseases have led to the development of specialized, multidisciplinary clinics designed to pro...

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... children's hospital. Am J Hum Genet 74: 121, 20 04 [PMID: 146 81831] Wolfberg AJ: Genes on the web—Direct-to-c onsumer marketing of genetic testing. N Engl J Med 355: 543 , 2006 [PMID: 16899772] ... penetrance, expression, or clinical course. Although genetic diagnosis of these and other disorders is only beginning to be used in the clinical setting, predictive testin...

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