291 research outputs found
Moralidad católica y cambio económico
Este artÃculo explica las corrientes eclesiásticas de crÃtica basada en cuestiones morales hacia la polÃtica económica auspiciada por la burocracia borbónica de la MonarquÃa Hispánica a lo largo del siglo XVIII.Aquest article exposa el desenvolupament dels corrents eclesià stics de crÃtica moral envers la polÃtica econòmica auspiciada per la burocrà cia borbònica de la Monarquia Hispà nica al llarg del segle XVIII.This article expounds the evolution of an ecclesiastic critical thought based on morals and referred to the economic policy sponsored by the Bourbon bureaucracy in the Spanish Monarchy during the eighteenth century
Perceptions, Antecedents and Consequents of Employee Engagement Initiatives in Australian Organizations
This paper presents a research project which was designed to explore employee engagement (EE) initiatives in Australian companies from the perspective of human resource (HR) managers. The research design was quantitative in the form of a self-administered survey instrument which was mailed to 703 HR managers in seven major Australian cities. 205 (29 per cent) usable surveys were returned with almost two-thirds from women. Respondents reported having a good understanding of EE but there was much less endorsement of the value, importance and benefits of EE initiatives. Respondents generally indicated that their organizations were not committed to EE in any demonstrable way. The data highlighted that employee retention was the primary reason organizations embark upon EE initiatives and that the outcomes of initiatives were only tentatively acknowledged by respondents. The research has implications for HR managers, senior management, EE consultants and organizations generally. Much more can be done to raise the profile, importance and benefits of EE initiatives. The originality of this research is that it is the first scholarly study to look at EE initiatives from the perspective of HR manager
Using Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentration and Character Data to Assess Land Use Change Effects on Coastal Waters
2016 South Carolina Water Resources Conference
South Carolina Water Resources at a Crossroads: Response, Readiness and Recover
Contriibutors to the March Issue/Notes
Notes by Robert J. Callahan, John Kelly, William A. Meehan, Joseph R. Rudd, Arthur M. Diamond, John J. Doyle, Robert E. Sullivan, Roger Gustafson, William F. Martin, Robert A. Macdonell, Robert E. Million, Arthur A. May, and John F. Power
Addressing the unmet need for visualizing Conditional Random Fields in Biological Data
Background: The biological world is replete with phenomena that appear to be
ideally modeled and analyzed by one archetypal statistical framework - the
Graphical Probabilistic Model (GPM). The structure of GPMs is a uniquely good
match for biological problems that range from aligning sequences to modeling
the genome-to-phenome relationship. The fundamental questions that GPMs address
involve making decisions based on a complex web of interacting factors.
Unfortunately, while GPMs ideally fit many questions in biology, they are not
an easy solution to apply. Building a GPM is not a simple task for an end user.
Moreover, applying GPMs is also impeded by the insidious fact that the complex
web of interacting factors inherent to a problem might be easy to define and
also intractable to compute upon. Discussion: We propose that the visualization
sciences can contribute to many domains of the bio-sciences, by developing
tools to address archetypal representation and user interaction issues in GPMs,
and in particular a variety of GPM called a Conditional Random Field(CRF). CRFs
bring additional power, and additional complexity, because the CRF dependency
network can be conditioned on the query data. Conclusions: In this manuscript
we examine the shared features of several biological problems that are amenable
to modeling with CRFs, highlight the challenges that existing visualization and
visual analytics paradigms induce for these data, and document an experimental
solution called StickWRLD which, while leaving room for improvement, has been
successfully applied in several biological research projects.Comment: BioVis 2014 conferenc
Communications Biophysics
Contains research objectives, summary of research and reports on two research project.National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 PO1 GM14940-03)National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 TO1 GM01555-03)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGL 22-009-304
Communications Biophysics
Contains research objectives, summary of research and reports on three research projects.National Institutes of Health (Grant 5 PO1 GM14940-06)National Institutes of Health (Grant 2 TOl GM01555-06)National Institutes of Health (Grant 1 ROl NS10737-01)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGL 22-009-304)Joint Services Electronics Programs (U. S. Army, U. S. Navy, and U. S. Air Force) under Contract DAAB07-71-C-0300B-D Electrodyne Division, Becton Dickinson and Company (Grant)Boston City Hospital Purchase Order 1176-21-33
Lifespan extension and the doctrine of double effect
Recent developments in biogerontology—the study of the biology of ageing—suggest that it may eventually be possible to intervene in the human ageing process. This, in turn, offers the prospect of significantly postponing the onset of age-related diseases. The biogerontological project, however, has met with strong resistance, especially by deontologists. They consider the act of intervening in the ageing process impermissible on the grounds that it would (most probably) bring about an extended maximum lifespan—a state of affairs that they deem intrinsically bad. In a bid to convince their deontological opponents of the permissibility of this act, proponents of biogerontology invoke an argument which is grounded in the doctrine of double effect. Surprisingly, their argument, which we refer to as the ‘double effect argument’, has gone unnoticed. This article exposes and critically evaluates this ‘double effect argument’. To this end, we first review a series of excerpts from the ethical debate on biogerontology in order to substantiate the presence of double effect reasoning. Next, we attempt to determine the role that the ‘double effect argument’ is meant to fulfil within this debate. Finally, we assess whether the act of intervening in ageing actually can be justified using double effect reasoning
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