Professor Arras' article' provides a fascinating and persuasive account of an important shift in bioethics. The move from theory-based systems of ethics to narrative-based systems of ethics is paralleled by shifts in several related fields. In legal theory, one can see this development in the rise of legal pragmatism and the questioning of abstract and comprehensive theories, whether those theo...

Biodiversity science investigates biological diversity on all levels and scales. There is strong evidence that biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates and that this will have dire consequences for humankind. Consequently, there is a strong need for science to support political decision making in this area. Thus key questions of biodiversity science are: What is out there? Why is it the...

Executive Summary There’s a battle raging out there in the I.T. world about which backup solution is better – tape or disk? In this Whitepaper, we attempt to mediate the argument by presenting some simple facts about the real purpose of backups and the relative advantages of each medium in covering them... Indeed, once you’ve read this article, you may agree it might be time for a truce! Read o...

In ordinary representations of relations the order of the relata plays a structural role, but in the states of affairs or the facts themselves such an order often does not seem to be intrinsically present. An alternative way to represent relations makes use of positions for the arguments. This is no problem for the love relation, but for relations like the adjacency relation and cyclic relation...

Hello and welcome to the first edition of the bimonthly STIMulus Newsletter. STIM (Students for Technology In Medicine) is a new student interest group dedicated to all things tech in medicine. One of our primary goals is to educate ourselves and our peers about all the latest and greatest happenings in the world of medical bio-tech, and come together to discuss the incredible advances that are...

Over last 30 years pulsatile drug delivery system has achieved a lot of importance in technology. And the reason why this is gaining because its strategy delivering molecule at right place, time. There are certain diseases which controlled by biological clock our body and follow circadian rhythms like congestive heart failure, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis ,osteoarthritis, inflammatory disorders...

Self-signaling models predict less selfish behavior in a probabilistic giving setting as individuals are expected to invest pro-social identity. However, there is also substantial evidence that people tend exploit situational excuses for choices (for instance, uncertainty) and behave more selfishly. We contrast these two motivations (identity management self-deception) experimentally order test...