30 research outputs found
Cyber Ethics 4.0 : Serving Humanity with Values
Cyber space influences all sectors of life and society: Artificial Intelligence, Robots,
Blockchain, Self-Driving Cars and Autonomous Weapons, Cyberbullying,
telemedicine and cyber health, new methods in food production, destruction and
conservation of the environment, Big Data as a new religion, the role of education
and citizensâ rights, the need for legal regulations and international conventions.
The 25 articles in this book cover the wide range of hot topics. Authors from many
countries and positions of international (UN) organisations look for solutions
from an ethical perspective. Cyber Ethics aims to provide orientation on what is
right and wrong, good and bad, related to the cyber space. The authors apply and
modify fundamental values and virtues to specific, new challenges arising from cyber
technology and cyber society.
The book serves as reading material for teachers, students, policy makers, politicians,
businesses, hospitals, NGOs and religious organisations alike. It is an invitation for
dialogue, debate and solution
Efficient Decision Support Systems
This series is directed to diverse managerial professionals who are leading the transformation of individual domains by using expert information and domain knowledge to drive decision support systems (DSSs). The series offers a broad range of subjects addressed in specific areas such as health care, business management, banking, agriculture, environmental improvement, natural resource and spatial management, aviation administration, and hybrid applications of information technology aimed to interdisciplinary issues. This book series is composed of three volumes: Volume 1 consists of general concepts and methodology of DSSs; Volume 2 consists of applications of DSSs in the biomedical domain; Volume 3 consists of hybrid applications of DSSs in multidisciplinary domains. The book is shaped decision support strategies in the new infrastructure that assists the readers in full use of the creative technology to manipulate input data and to transform information into useful decisions for decision makers
Drug Discovery
Natural products are a constant source of potentially active compounds for the treatment of various disorders. The Middle East and tropical regions are believed to have the richest supplies of natural products in the world. Plant derived secondary metabolites have been used by humans to treat acute infections, health disorders and chronic illness for tens of thousands of years. Only during the last 100 years have natural products been largely replaced by synthetic drugs. Estimates of 200 000 natural products in plant species have been revised upward as mass spectrometry techniques have developed. For developing countries the identification and use of endogenous medicinal plants as cures against cancers has become attractive. Books on drug discovery will play vital role in the new era of disease treatment using natural products
The impossible feast of the uncanny technowoman : a plural feminist cyborg writes of the possibilities for science fiction and potent body politics : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Manawatƫ Campus, New Zealand
This research embodies Donna Harawayâs (1991) feminist cyborg as a potent political
figure for women and their bodies in the 21st century West. The violences done to women
all too often define them (Malabou, 2011), confining them to the heterosexual matrix
characterised by their objectification and âexcesses.â The multiplicities and pluralities of
âwomanâ disrupt traditional psychological science that counts and categorises. Re-routing
psychology through the hybridity and non-fixity of the science fiction genre, new
possibilities for psychological knowledge production emerge, including figures (such as
cyborgs), art installations and hyperdimensional arachnids through which to think new
thoughts (Haraway, 2016). Through the figure of a feminist cyborg, âwomanâ can be
understood as politically potent through her multiplicities, partialities, simultaneities and
contradictions. After rendering Harawayâs feminist cyborg through the science fiction
genre, the thesis takes on a creative form to re-think the notion of apocalypse, re-theorise
the uncanny, then explore a potently networked series of figures, internet users and
movements (such as Human Barbies, internet folklore, pro-rape forums) that structure
womenâs bodies in ways that re-assert the heterosexual matrix, as well as in ways that re-
build women outside of the heterosexual matrix. Re-figuring âwomanâ outside of the
heterosexual matrix could perhaps open new spaces in which to think womenâs body
politics differently in perpetually networked, ever-expanding technoworlds