During the last decade or so, the topic of environmental protection from ionising radiation has become a major issue within the field of radiological protection. The change of focus from a purely anthropocentric approach has led to the development and availability of bespoke methodologies for the assessment of impacts on wildlife from radioactive contaminants. The application of such assessment...

The sociology of the body developed as a reaction against Cartesian conceptions homo clausus that haunted disciplinary thought in late 20th century but exhibited anthropocentric tendencies neglecting non-human animals. Building upon recent attempts to address this situation, I develop transactional approach towards pedagogics explores how shifting borders governing human–animal relations influe...

This paper addresses the issue of moral status non-human animals, or question whether sentient animals are morally considerable. The arguments for and against discussed, above all argument from marginal cases. It is argued that have based on their having interests in experiential well-being, but there degrees status. Two interest-based approaches presented discussed: DeGrazia?s view continuing ...

A generalized demand for public decision processes to be open, integrative, and adaptive is increasingly evident in the environmental debate. In biological conservation, however, as in most other environmental controversies, we continue to find that our basic nature (evolutionary and cultural) generally predisposes us to exclude and confront one another in words or deeds, sometimes violently. I...

The background field approach to multi-loop calculations in gauge field theories is presented. A relation between the gauge-invariant effective action computed using this method and the effective action of the conventional functional approach is derived. Feynman rules are given and renormalization is discussed. It is shown that the renormalization programme can be carried out without any refere...

This talk presents details of the calculation of two-loop corrections to heavy baryon currents containing one heavy quark in leading order of the 1/mQ-expansion, i.e. in the limit of Heavy Quark Symmetry (HQS). The calculations lead to the determination of the anomalous dimension of these currents. I also discuss problems with different γ5-schemes and their solution by the finite renormalizatio...