In this paper, we argue that Peter Singer’s view on the potentiality of the human embryo is erroneous. According to Singer, the human embryo is a human person in potentiality and not in actuality. As a potential person, an embryo cannot be accorded the same moral worth as a person. For him, ‘there is no rule that says that a potential X has the same value as an X, or has all the rights of an X....

The rising global demand for palm oil and its associated products has led to increased numbers of palm oil refineries with its attendant effluent discharge. Many researches have confirmed the ecological disruptive potentiality of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME), still further attention has to be directed at POME’s potential genotoxicity. The present study has made physico-chemical and genotoxicit...

Monosynaptic reflex response of spinal motoneurons to graded afferent volleys has been studied in natural populations and in a representative sample of individual motoneurons. By analysis of input-response relations certain of the requirements for initiation of reflex discharge have been defined. Initation of motoneuron discharge by monosynaptic afferent excitatory volleys results from the deve...

The present paper proposes an application of potentiality learning to supervised learning. The potentiality has been developed as a measure of the importance of components in the self-organizing maps (SOM) to extract important input neurons. The main characteristics lies in its simplicity and thus it can be easily implemented. If it is possible to use it for conventional supervised learning, be...

This chapter explores the development of a new type of scientific tool – manmade closed ecological systems. These systems have had a number of applications within the past 50 years. They are unique tools for investigating fundamental processes and interactions of ecosystems. They also hold the potentiality for creating life support systems for space exploration and habitation outside of Earth’s...

In this paper, a Mean Potentiality Approach for a balanced solution of an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Set (IFSS) based decision making problem is proposed using level soft sets. Further, a parameter reduction procedure has been used to reduce the choice parameter set with the help of the balanced algorithm of mean potentiality approach. Moreover, we implement this mean potentiality approach of a ...

family is considered as the most fundamental and basic shaping, and underlies drug abusing. this research aimed to investigate the relationships between parenting styles (authoritative, permissive and despotic) as one of the most effective family factors on child growth and addiction potentiality among the students. the statistical population of research consisted of all student of medical ilam...

Cyanobacteria are an interesting group of photosynthetic prokaryotes with a great potential in drug discovery and scientific research. Due to their high degree of diversification, they have been able to adapt to almost all ecological niches. Similarly to Gram-negative bacteria, cyanobacterial cell wall contains Lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) in the outer membrane layer. LPSs are molecules that poss...