1,721,565 research outputs found
Moral Hermeneutics in R&D Teams: Making Sense of Conflicting Responsibilities in Technological Innovation
Full text linkThis study adopts a hermeneutic, practice-based approach to Responsible Innovation to explore how a reflective and proactive attitude can be implemented in a start-up context. We hypothesised that a moral hermeneutics framework - rooted in post-phenomenology and theories on technology-induced value change - could provide a way to understand how practitioners in a start-up make sense of the different kinds of responsibilities in their work, balancing professional demands and standards of excellence with broader ecological and social commitments. Using in-depth interviews with the team members of a start-up R&D laboratory, we explored how they interpret their responsibilities-as-(moral)-obligations. Our findings suggest that the syntactical ways team members make sense of the relationship between these responsibilities can be useful for understanding how reflexivity can surface in this environment. We conclude by proposing that less conciliatory interpretations of conflicting responsibilities may lead to a collective search for practical solutions addressing these tensions, as long as it is embedded in a collective dialogue involving the other members’ moral perspectives and technical expertise
Reflexivity and AI start-ups: A collective virtue for dynamic teams
Full text linkThis paper investigates the ethical challenges faced by AI-driven start-ups, where the rapid pace of innovation and limited resources often preclude team members from fully understanding the product under development or its societal implications. We propose the concept of “swarm moral reflexivity”, where ethical reflection emerges collectively from the interactions of individuals focused on their specific tasks. Drawing on Swarm Intelligence theories and Alasdair MacIntyre's framework of moral deliberation, this approach enables teams to engage with ethical issues through daily encounters with conflicting responsibilities, rather than relying on top-down value systems or comprehensive ethical oversight. Our model suggests that decentralised, collective moral awareness can effectively support Responsible Innovation in AI start-ups, ensuring that ethical concerns are recognised and addressed throughout the development process, even in fast-paced and resource-constrained environments
La ricostruzione della prima commissura interdigitale mediante lembi a distanza.
No full textL'utilizzo di lembi a distanza trova impiego nella ricostruzione della prima commissura interdigitale. Un buon ricupero funzionale rappresenta il traguardo della metodic
Misurazioni radiografiche del ginocchio
No full textMolte patologia di ginocchio necessitano di un adeguato studio radiografico. Si analizzano le possibili proiezioni radiografiche e le relative misurazioni impiegati per il riconoscimento di affezioni patologich
Il ruolo dei lembi locali nel trattamento delle retrazioni commissurali interdigitali
No full textIn caso di retrazione della commissura interdigitale viene illustrata la metodica di utilizzo dei lembi locali. Tecnica e risultati sono presentat
The postnatal development of somatosensory callosal connections after partial lesions of somatosensory areas
No full textThe distribution of S1 (first somatosensory area) and S2 (second somatosensory area) neurons projecting to the contralateral S2 was studied with horseradish peroxidase in normal adult cats and in cats aged between 129 and 248 days in which the injected S2 area had been deprived of some of its input by an earlier lesion (on postnatal days 3 to 30; day of birth = day 1) of ipsilateral S1, alone or combined with a lesion of contralateral S2. In animals with S1 lesions, as in the normal controls, labeled neurons were selectively distributed to the regions of the trunk representation and to parts of the forelimb and hindlimb representations; however, the normally acallosal region in the forepaw representation contained scattered labeled neurons in three of the four animals whose S1 had been lesioned during the first postnatal week. In these animals, the distribution of labeled neurons in the contralateral S2 was apparently normal. Furthermore, the additional lesion of this area during the first postnatal week (one animal) did not increase the degree of filling-in of the normally acallosal parts of S1. The partial filling-in of the acallosal parts of S1 is probably due to the preservation to adulthood of some of the callosal neurons which are present in these regions during the early postnatal life. Possibly, these neurons did not disappear (or lose their callosal axons) because the neonatal lesion (i) allowed their successful competition for terminal space in contralateral S2 or (ii) induced a reorganization of the peripheral input to this area
Postnatal shaping of callosal connections from sensory areas
No full textHorseradish peroxidase (HRP) was injected unilaterally into the first and second visual areas (V1 and V2; areas 17 and 18) of 20 kittens aged between 2 and 90 days and into the second somatosensory area (S2) of 16 kittens aged between 1 and 52 days. The radial and tangential (normal and parallel to the pial surface, respectively) distributions of neurons giving origin to callosal axons (callosal neurons) were studied. In adult cats, callosal efferent zones (CZs) are defined by the distribution of callosal neurons. CZs occupy, in the visual cortices, tangentially and radially restricted parts of areas 17, 18, 19 of the lateral suprasylvian gyrus and in the somatosensory cortices, parts of S1 and S2. At birth, callosal neurons are distributed throughout the tangential extent of visual and somatosensory areas; they are also more widespread in depth than in the adult. During the first postnatal month, as a result of the gradual disappearance of callosal neurons from parts of the visual and somatosensory areas, the adult CZs emerge. The CZ in areas 17 and 18 undergoes a further tangential reduction during the second and third postnatal months
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
- …
