Recent work shows an important asymmetry in lay intuitions about moral dilemmas. Most people think it is permissible to divert a train so that it will kill one innocent person instead of five, but most people think that it is not permissible to push a stranger in front of a train to save five innocents. We argue that recent emotion-based explanations of this asymmetry have neglected the contrib...

Bioluminescence imaging has shown great potential for studying and monitoring disease progression in small animal pre-clinical imaging. However, absolute bioluminescence source recovery through tomographic multi-wavelength measurements is often hindered through the lack of quantitative accuracy and suffers from both poor localisation and quantitative recovery. In this work a method to incorpora...

A continuous production control inventory model for deteriorating items with variable demand rate is developed. Demand rate is the linear function of time. In this paper we have done all work in the environment of permissible delay of payments. A number of structural properties of the inventory system are studied analytically. We have discussed the minimum total system cost under the condition ...

Recent work shows an important asymmetry in lay intuitions about moral dilemmas. Most people think it is permissible to divert a train so that it will kill one innocent person instead of five, but most people think that it is not permissible to push a stranger in front of a train to save five innocents. We argue that recent emotion-based explanations of this asymmetry have neglected the contrib...

We investigate traveling wave solutions to a class of dispersive models – the θ-equation of the form ut − utxx + uux = θuuxxx + (1− θ)uxuxx, including two integrable equations, the Camassa-Holm equation (θ = 1/3) and the Degasperis-Procesi equation(θ = 1/4) as special models. When 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1 2 , strong solutions of the θ-equation may blow-up in finite time, correspondingly, the traveling wave so...

Michael Lockwood has recently concluded that it can be morally permissible to perform potentially damaging non-therapeutic experiments on live human (pre)embryos. The reasons he provides in support of this conclusion commit him inter alia to the following controversial theses: (i) an organism's potential for twinning bears critically on the identity conditions for that organism; and (ii) functi...

Email: [email protected] Abstract: Many researchers have assumed one stage trade credit financing. In this study, we considered two levels of trade credit policy using Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) approach. Demand rate is considered to be stock-dependent for the first level (credit demand) and constant for second level (cash demand). Mathematical models are derived under two differen...

Some of the human embryos generated by in vitro fertilization (iVF) are treas­ ured by the couples whose gametes were fused to create them; they may fulfil the wish of the prospective parents to have a child. We call these ‘wanted embryos’. it would be wrong to destroy such embryos in research; however, not all embryos are wanted. We argue that it is, with the con­ sent of the parents, morally ...

This paper develops an economic lot-sizing production model for deteriorating items with time dependent quadratic demand and delay in payments under two levels of trade credit policy. The trade credit policy adopted here is a two-level trade credit policy in which the supplier offers the retailer a permissible delay period M, and the retailer in turn provides customers a permissible delay perio...

Moral judgments are elicited using dilemmas presenting hypothetical situations in which an agent must choose between letting several people die or sacrificing one person in order to save them. The evaluation of the action or inaction of a human agent is compared to those of two artificial agents – a humanoid robot and an automated system. Ratings of rightness, blamefulness and moral permissibil...