Traditional theories of animal rights are based upon the argument that species membership is a morally arbitrary feature in ethical reasoning. Rather than base moral standing upon common humanity, animal rights theorists have claimed that all sentient creatures, or creatures above a certain level of sentience, belong to the same ethical community, and thus are rights bearers. In this way, anima...

In this paper, we investigate whether module concepts for capturing multi-object collaborations can be effectively used to implement crosscutting concerns in reusable, independently developed modules for a-posteriori integration into existing systems. A new kind of collaboration module, called Object Teams, is proposed which combines the best features of existing approaches, further enhances th...

In Object Oriented systems super-imposition is a way to implement crosscutting concerns that introduce scattering and tangling of code components among the Types implemented along Type Hierarchies. This paper presents the results of the analysis of a set of existing Java systems to confirm and verify this assumption. The analysis was carried out exploiting a method to automatically analyse and ...

The trend of utilizing computers in pre-school education will stay regardless of the controversy surrounding childhood pedagogy. This is particularly so for Singapore, a tiny country ranked only second to the United States in information technology (IT) penetration and usage in the latest ranking by the World Economic Forum. How the various stakeholders (government, kindergarten operators, teac...

Poultry meat quality has been widely studied, and has become a growing demand of the international market. Parameters that affect meat quality are complex, and occur throughout the production chain. The constant concern with meat quality by the exporting sectors is a response to consumers’ demands, and is achieved by increasing efficiency, and investments in personnel training on quality. Under...

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