during medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. however, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians’ practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

This paper presents the sensing plan of VIRTUE; an active vision system based around a VIRtual TrinocUlar stEreo-head. VIRTUE is used to build polyhedral volumetric models of unknown objects based on recovered 3-D line segments. Partial models and a viewpoint enumeration scheme are used to guide the image acquisition process and to determine `where to look next'. Results of the active vision re...

the present essay is a critical study of zagzebski’s reading and criticism of plantinga’s virtue-epistemology. zagzebski, on the account of her definition of knowledge and the role that she assigns to ‘volition’ and ‘awareness’ in virtuous acts, along with her acceptance of the uniformity of moral and epistemic virtue, challenges plantinga’s theory of knowledge. zagzebski believes that although...

With all due respect for my SLU colleague for whom no drafts are " rough " , this is a " rough " draft. Much remains to be done to complete the argument of this paper. I will be grateful for all comments, but please do not quote at this stage of development.

We show how to use a balanced wavelet tree as a data structure that stores a list of numbers and supports efficient range-selection queries. A range-selection query takes a rank and the endpoints of a sublist and returns the number with that rank in that sublist. For example, if the rank is half the sublist’s length, then the query returns the sublist’s median. If someone gives us a list of the...

Academics and practitioners have written much about what they believe are the key characteristics of effective marketing and strategy, including their view of any distinguishing supreme virtue, practice or goal. Similarly, philosophers, theologians and others have long speculated about what would be the greatest virtue, practice or goal of individuals and/or groups, but this is seldom if ever d...

We model virtue as an asset on the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving their virtue increases girls’ chances of getting a "good" husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and anthropological evidence, we find that the diffusion (and the social value) of virginity, across societies and over time, can be deter...

Novel ship concepts, increasing size and speed, and strong competition in the global maritime market require that a ship’s hydrodynamic performance be studied at the highest level of sophistication. All hydrodynamic aspects need to be considered so as to optimize trade-offs between resistance, propulsion (and cavitation), seakeeping or manoeuvring. VIRTUE takes a holistic approach to hydrodynam...

This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for general anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal reform to work through differences in moral commitme...