566 research outputs found
THE ETHICS OF PROTOCELLS: MORAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF CREATING LIFE IN THE LABORATORY
No full textSeries foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction to the ethics of protocells / Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke -- I. Risk, uncertainty, and precaution with protocells -- 2. New technologies, public perceptions, and ethics / Brian Johnson -- 3. Social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells / Mark A. Bedau and Mark Triant -- 4. The acceptability of the risks of protocells / Carl Cranor -- 5. The precautionary principle and its critics / Emily C. Parke and Mark A. Bedau -- 6. A new virtue-based understanding of the precautionary principle / Per Sandin -- 7. Ethical dialogue about science in the context of a culture of precaution / Bill Durodié -- II. Lessons from recent history and related technologies -- 8. The creation of life in cultural context: from spontaneous generation to synthetic biology / Joachim Schummer -- 9. Second life: some ethical issues in synthetic biology and the recapitulation of evolution / Laurie Zoloth -- 10. Protocell patents: property between modularity and emergence / Alain Pottage -- 11. Protocells, precaution, and open-source biology / Andrew Hessel -- 12. The ambivalence of protocells: challenges for self-reflexive ethics / Brigitte Hantsche-Tangen -- III. Ethics in a future with protocells -- 13. Open evolution and human agency: the pragmatics of upstream ethics in the design of artificial life / George Khushf -- 14. Human practices: interfacing three modes of collaboration / Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett -- 15. This is not a hammer: on ethics and technology / Mickey Gjerris -- 16. Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research / Christine Hauskeller -- 17. Methodological considerations about the ethical and social implications of protocells / Giovanni Boniolo -- About the author
Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Association of Nurseries nursery research 2013
No full textfor Oregon Department of Agriculture, Nursery Research and Regulatory Committee ; principal investigators: Jennifer Parke ; cooperators: Heather Stoven.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Degei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji /
No full textOnline resource; title from PDF title page (ANU, viewed September 4, 2014).Includes bibliographical references.Aubrey Parke: an enthusiastic amateur in Fiji? -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Maps -- Fijian society: the islands of Fiji (general) -- Overview of project -- The ideological sense of Vanua -- Understanding traditional Fijian society -- Factors affecting development and interaction -- The Yavusa: the ideal and the reality -- The diversity of Fijian polities -- Overview of chapters 8-10 Fijian polities in three areas in the Yasayasa Vakara -- Polities of Rakiraki Tikina -- Polities of West Vuda Tikina -- Polities of Nadi Tikina -- Polities of Nawaka Tikina -- Overview of chapters 12-13 polities of the Natu Yasawa: the Yasawa Group -- The Tikina of Naviti -- The Tikina of Yasawa -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography.JSTO
Epistemological and interpersonal stance in a data description task : findings from a discipline-specific learner corpus
No full textThis article examines the stance options used by writers responding to a data description task in the discipline of Statistics. Based on a small learner corpus, it uses inductive qualitative content analysis to explore both the content propositions that students included in their writing, and the ways in which they expressed evaluative stance vis-à-vis such propositions. In the light of an interview with a specialist informant, the article discusses the appropriacy of the content choices and stance options taken by students. It then discusses the potential exploitation of the learner corpus for pedagogic purposes
Silhouettes and fine English and continental portrait miniatures including Princess of Hohenlohe-Oehringen by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, circa 1820, the Empress Josephine by Daniel Saint, signed, circa 1805, a young lady by Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin, signed and dated 1827, Louis Philippe, King of the French, by Mme. Victoire Jacquotot and Justin Lienard, signed, 1830, porcelain, a group of miniatures of the Hollings and Champernowne families, by Christian Friedrich Zincke, a rare enamel miniature of the Marquess of Granby, by Jeremiah Meyer, signed and dated 1770, an exceptionally fine miniature of a young lady by Isaac Oliver, circa 1615, a young man by Samuel Cooper, signed with initials, circa 1655, the Hon. Basil Cochrane by John Smart, signed and dated 1789, Miss Ellen Maria Bond as a child, by George Engleheart, circa 1785, and Lt. General Sir Charles Gregan-Craufurd by Richard Cosway, signed and dated 1800 : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. ..., day of sale Monday, 10th December, 1979
No full textPhonography, for schools and colleges. A course of lessons in the Ben Pitman system,
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StructuralComponents 6: An early-stage design tool for flexible topologies of mid-rise concrete buildings
No full textThis paper discusses the project StructuralComponents 6, a continuation of the ongoing project StructuralComponents which focuses on the development of computational tools for conceptual building design beginning with Breider [1]. The goal of StructuralComponents 6 is to develop a tool for the conceptual design of mid-rise concrete buildings laterally supported by shear walls. The tool allows a user to digitally construct a prismatic, rectangular building design with a custom number and arrangement of shear walls and performs structural validation of any given design in terms of stiffness, strength and stability. The project in split into two main phases. 1) A calculation method is developed that can be applied to a flexible number and arrangement of shear walls, assuming the shear walls are connected by infinitely rigid floors. 2) The tool is implemented using Python and Grasshopper. A case study is performed to determine the applicability of the tool to real-life building design. It is concluded that the rigid-floor calculation method is adequate for the design of buildings with minimal out-of-plane floor effects (i.e. buildings with pre-cast floors) and minimal torsional effects. Through the case study, it is shown that the tool can be successfully applied to a building with a complex arrangement of shear walls.Applied Mechanic
Immigrating With God: Religious Coping Among Central American Asylum Seekers
No full textMaria sat next to me on the sofa, smiling as she told me that she had been gang raped and kidnapped twice on her journey from El Salvador to Mexico. When I asked Maria how she could be so happy, she answered by speaking to God instead of to me: Sometimes one has to suffer. I did not suffer like you suffered, Jesus, and I am a sinner. During my year and a half of volunteering at Casa RAICES, I have heard many stories like Maria\u27s, stories that combine extreme suffering with extreme faith. I am touched and fascinated by the way asylum seekers from Central American cling to God during a singularly difficult time of their lives
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Pyridine-N-Oxide Derivatives of Naphthoquinone
No full textThis thesis describes a series of pyridine-N-oxide derivatives of naphthoquinone that were prepared by the author. These compounds will be tested for medicinal activity by Parke-Davis and Company
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No full textScript from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a news conference with author D. Parke Gibson about the contributions of black consumers
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