This paper presents arguments for two claims. First, post-persons, beings with a moral status superior to that of mere persons, are possible. Second, it would be bad to create such beings. Actions that risk bringing them into existence should be avoided. According to Allen Buchanan, it is possible to enhance moral status up to the level of personhood. But attempts to improve status beyond that ...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems attract a high attention and open source software does it as well. The question is then if, and if so, when do open source ERP systems take off. The paper describes the status of open source ERP systems. Based on literature review of ERP system selection criteria based on Web of Science articles, it discusses reported reasons for choosing open source o...

In this paper, we describe the accomplishments of the initial phase of the Human Genome Project, with particular attention to the progress made toward achieving the defined goals for constructing genetic and physical maps of the human genome and determining the sequence of human DNA, identifying the complete set of human genes, and analyzing the need for adequate policies for using the informat...

co-organized by Bartt lomiej Grychtol, of the Fraunhofer Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology in Mannheim, Germany. A new award for best student paper was presented to Robert Winkler (Winkler et al 2014), and runner-up award to Melody Dodd (Dodd and Mueller 2014). This continues the tradition of successful conferences on biomedical applications of electrical impedance tomo...

BACKGROUND Since exchange blood transfusion (EBT) is associated with serious complications, phototherapy has been made more powerful to reduce the need for EBT in the developed world. This study was undertaken to determine the indications for EBT in neonatal jaundice (NNJ) at our unit and what proportion of EBTs was possibly avoidable. METHODS All the babies who had EBT for hyperbilirubinemia...

Imagine having such poor vision that you have to rely on your toddler to ‘tell mummy when the big red bus comes’. This patient had had diabetes for most of her life and it had damaged most of her body. I felt sad but I also felt angry. How could this have happened? Of course, diabetes care cannot prevent complications in every patient, but surely we could prevent much of the tissue damage that ...

Test sera from vaccinated pigs at different time-frame were used to assess the sensitivity and specificity of an optimized Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-chip-based detection method. Biomolecular interaction between Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) and serum antibody were investigated in relative time using Biacore SPR system. An amount of 8860.93 RU of CSFV in 10mM sodium acetate of pH 5.0 ...

This paper describes the work achieved in CESART (Campagne d’Evaluation des Systèmes d’Acquisition des Ressources Terminologiques) evaluation project supported by the French Ministry of Research and Technology1 and coordinated by the University of Lille 3 and ELDA. The project deals with the evaluation of term and semantic relation extraction from corpora in French. CESART logically follows on ...