I find myself in the awkward position of commenting on a paper with which I am largely sympathetic, especially when Professor Arras calls attention to the importance of thick descriptions and interpretation in casuistry.' Still, I am reluctant to embrace the language of narrative ethics to enrich casuistry, which has led me to raise three questions. First: Is narrative the proper genre for deve...

Is solidarity in bioethics or public health ethics necessary? If so, why? there room for a principle of obligatory ethics? In the first part this paper, I assess meaning value ethics. second part, propose insights into republican interpretation solidarity, or, more correctly, “civic” solidarity. This is crucial to be able distinguish between different sources of, and justifications for, some le...

DNA polymerase eta (Poleta) is unique among eukaryotic DNA polymerases in its proficient ability to replicate through distorting DNA lesions, and Poleta synthesizes DNA with a low fidelity. Here, we use pre-steady-state kinetics to investigate the mechanism of nucleotide incorporation by Poleta and show that it utilizes an induced-fit mechanism to selectively incorporate the correct nucleotide....

This project bestows optimal sizing and placement of FACTS device, which is achieved by the searching method of bacteria foraging algorithm (BFA) with optimal sizing of FACTS device. Static Var Compensator (SVC) is one of the FACTS devices, utilized for progress of voltage profile and loss minimization. The precise strategy of SVC offers the real power loss minimization with increase of voltage...

Surfactants are amphiphilic compounds that have a molecular structure containing both a hydrophilic (water loving) and a hydrophobic (water hating) region. The hydrophobic region is usually a long chain aliphatic hydrocarbon, whereas the hydrophilic portion can be composed of an ionic or non-ionic polar group. The physical nature of these molecules bestows the ability to reduce surface tension ...

Both Nietzsche, as the nineteenth century wound down, and Foucault in the last third of the twentieth century, responded to, and sought a way out of, a profound cultural crisis. Nietzsche first signaled the eruption of that crisis with his proclamation of the death of God,1 and eighty years later Foucault confronted the deepening impact of that same crisis. For Nietzsche, the death of God, in t...

The ability of protein 4.1 to stimulate the binding of spectrin to F-actin has been compared by cosedimentation analysis for three avian (erythrocyte, brain, and brush border) and two mammalian (erythrocyte and brain) spectrin isoforms. Human erythroid protein 4.1 stimulated actin binding of all spectrins except the brush border isoform (TW 260/240). These results suggested that the beta subuni...