exploring the boundary between technology and ethics

... by the PWHCE and is a synthesis of the policy recommendations arising from the research These are combined with the results and recommendations from two other, Exploring the Intersections Between ... work to provide the epidemiological data policy makers demand The importance of women’s stories of their lives and their health Notwithstanding the above, the voices of the women in the reports provide ... low-income mother “We Did It Together” discussed the intergenerational links between the poverty that children experience and their subsequent poverty as adults The mothers described the effect of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 00:20

... mentioned that the lithologies on the eastern boundary of the massif are similar to the ones on the western boundary The northern limit of the work is the northwest-trending divide between the Astor ... Ladakh and Kohistan island arc terranes, and to the south lie Tethyan and cratonic sediments and associated plutons of Indian continental affinities The boundaries between these terranes and the ... of the adjoining terranes is necessary to interpret the boundary between them Using this framework, the lithologic and chemical character of the rocks within the boundary zone are described and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/11/2015, 23:01

... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series and the cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... data, and note significant deviations between the PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50

... family Very often, the person who takes such a stand will command the respect of their peers—many of whom may wish that they too could make a similar commitment Nonetheless, such a stand can also generate ... primarily from the narrow focus on organizational goals and objectives to the exclusion of personal goals and objectives In other words, if all that matters is the organization's goals, there is simply ... organizations compete for a limited resource The success of one means that it tends to get more of the resource, which then reduces the success of the others The resource could be limited dollars to...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... 1–32 The definitions of household in the SCF and in the Surveys of Consumers are consistent enough to allow for comparisons In this article, we use the terms family and household interchangeably The ... ‘‘Saving and Financial Planning: Some ´ Household Financial Management: The Connection between Knowledge and Behavior and more research on budgeting and cash-flow management is needed Data from the ... questions covering consumer attitudes and expectations and the respondents’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.34 In the November and December 2001 surveys, the Federal Reserve Board commissioned...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 15:15

... by the Sun Over the ensuing decades theoretical analyses deepened the understanding of the theory and exhibited the richness and variety of its predictions But, except perhaps for cosmology, the ... matter • The development of string theory and the quantum theory of geometry as promising candidates for the union of quantum mechanics and general relativity • The first descriptions of the quantum ... scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... their investigation As well, they adequately reported on the content of the interventions, the statistical analytic decisions, and the dates of recruitment and follow-up, and they addressed their ... information regarding the intervention itself, the statistical analyses performed, and the methodology and adequate discussion of the generalizability of the results and how they fit in the context of ... the statistical methods used, detailing of the flow of participants through the study and their baseline characteristics, and an interpretation of the results as they fit in the context of other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... has termed the Matthew effect, with the better readers reading more and therefore increasing their exposure to print, and consequently their word recognition skills and their fluency and speed ... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered and the emphases of the different ... comprehension and listening comprehension was still evident at the end of Year and at the end of Year At the end of Year the differences between the experimental and control groups were significant on the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... receipts and payments (the credit terms on sales and purchases are the same so that a =~) and the firm buys just in time so inventory is zero and YI =O operating cash cycle (0) is cet Then the and ... because the sales contract determines both the timing and amount of the cash inflows (and often related cash outflows) and the recognition of earnings The sales contract specifies when and under ... process for sales, the signs of the predicted relations and correlations (other than earnings changes) and the results are essentially unchanged The relation between sales and cash flow from...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... because the latter depends on (a) the structural integrity of the vascular bed of the penis; (b) the endothelium lining the cavernosal arteries and the helicine arterioles, as well as the endothelium ... contribute to endothelial dysfunction and microvascular disease and reduced androgen levels; (b) the insult on the endothelium resulting in endothelial injury and reduced NO synthase activity and NO production, ... lining the lacunar spaces of the corpus cavernsoum; and (c) the endocrine milieu that regulates the fibroelastic properties of the penis via tissue maintenance and remodeling The evidence Obesity and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... cyanobacteria at the time of chloroplast origin had poorly defined interactions between Cyt f and plastocyanin and/ or plastocyanin and photosystem I, and subsequently the nature of the interactions in the ... site are relevant, and these can be represented by a disc of fixed radius and uniform charge The same analysis has been used for the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin [1], and for an in-depth ... in [1] and in this paper) Although the curves are shallow, making extrapolation more difficult, and the number of datapoints is smaller than in the case of the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21

... Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and ... Testing and Research) The relationship between ICT and the environment is seen in terms of “ICT as part of the solution” and “ICT as part of the problem” Elements include technology, application and ... MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Summary While the links between ICT and environmental outcomes are becoming clearer, there is no separate statistical field that links the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... by their interaction: that is to say, the hypothetical sum of the value of their two ventures in isolation from one another is higher than the sum of their values given their interaction The ... of the ADA, provide someone to facilitate communication between the client and the lawyer if the lawyer cannot sign, without charging the client the cost of hiring a sign interpreter unless there ... Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Powell, believed the distinction between the lost entitlements in Hodel and Andrus was unduly slender to sustain and therefore argued that Andrus should be limited...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... familiar with the strong racial feeling that existed between the English and the Welsh, and between the English and the Irish If the Lowlanders of Scotland felt towards the Highlanders as Mr Hill ... true Scots and "the English of the Lowlands" Do we, then, find any racial antagonism between the Highlands and the Lowlands? If Mr Freeman is right in laying down the general rule that "the true ... must exclude the islands, which were largely inhabited by Norsemen Both the Hebrides and the islands of Orkney and Shetland were outside the realm of Scotland The names of Macbeth and "the gentle...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... example and then used to generate a prediction for the leftout example The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, and the true label as given by the ... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used H- CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) between the relations predicted by O- CRF and R1CRF and includes the result in the feature ... consider the task of open extraction, in which the goal is to extract relationships from text when their number is large and identity unknown We then consider the targeted extraction task, in which the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... by the Sun Over the ensuing decades theoretical analyses deepened the understanding of the theory and exhibited the richness and variety of its predictions But, except perhaps for cosmology, the ... matter • The development of string theory and the quantum theory of geometry as promising candidates for the union of quantum mechanics and general relativity • The first descriptions of the quantum ... scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... reporting authority RAND MG518-2.4 the Air Force On the demand side at the COCOM level, a J3/5 organization could gather these space-system needs and requirements and prioritize them This organization ... platforms and commandand-control centers from a command perspective They were interested in whether existing support philosophies and approaches could be Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving the ... weather systems and GPS, provide services for public and government uses The Air Force provides GPS and weather services as public goods and bears the full costs of sustainment for all users The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... lost in about 45 The substitution of either Na+ for K+ or acetate for Cl– ions, as well as the inclusion of 0.1 mgÆmL)1 BSA did not increase the stability of the protein and slowed the reaction rate ... slow release of the cleavage products from the protein The amplitudes of the initial burst (2.78 and 2.83 nM) gave a ratio of DNA/protein of 0.94 : As will be discussed further, these data indicate ... RNA The assay of 5A was repeated with and without nM AnCOBDP9 pre-RNA and with KCl at 50, 100 and 150 mM Note that increasing KCl concentration slows the cleavage of the DNA substrate in the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... banks to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy On the other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and soundness ... parentheses Daggers ‡ and † denote significance at the 5% and 10% levels, respectively For the LR tests we report the degrees of freedom of the chi-square statistics in parentheses and the corresponding ... regimes and lag in the first-differences of the variables12, with regime shifts in the intercept, the autoregressive parameters and the error variance (MSIAH(2)-VECM(1)) The estimates of the MS-VECM,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... legendary in the film industry have several things in common They know how to draw, they study art and the history of their craft, they hang out with their peers, they are objective, and they make ... enjoy their work and recognize the value of knowing the history, the art, and the craft of animation T Jamie and Angie have pooled the knowledge of some truly talented professionals to help them ... essential to all the arts, especially the art of animation The structure, design, and composition of a scene, the gesture of a character, the angle of view, the location, the set, and the props are...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20