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A cell spot microarray method for production of high density siRNA transfection microarrays
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Deliberating Animal Values: a Pragmatic-Pluralistic Approach to Animal Ethics.
Debates in animal ethics are largely characterized by ethical monism, the search for a single, timeless, and essential trait in which the moral standing of animals can be grounded. In this paper, we argue that a monistic approach towards animal ethics hampers and oversimplifies the moral debate. The value pluralism present in our contemporary societies requires a more open and flexible approach to moral inquiry. This paper advocates the turn to a pragmatic, pluralistic approach to animal ethics. It contributes to the development of such an approach in two ways. It offers a pragmatist critique of ethical monism in animal ethics and presents the results of a qualitative study into the value diversity present in the different ways of thinking about animals in the Netherlands. Carefully arranged group discussions resulted in the reconstruction of four distinctive moral value frameworks that may serve as instruments in the future process of moral inquiry and deliberation in the reflection on animal use. © 2010 The Author(s)
This is my truth, tell me yours: some aspects of action research quality in the light of truth theories
Correlations between holistic awareness of time and innovativeness
Time and innovativeness are crucial for organizations and human beings and are very hard to master. Without time management, this imperative resource is wasted or at least utilized poorly. Without innovativeness, there will be no new innovations, inventions, approaches or change to better. Even that these are commonly recognized to be very important, these issues are often still neglected. Time and innovativeness are quite similar also other ways. Both phenomena should be understood from a wider perspective in order to maximize their utilization. Both need to be approached from both personal and organizational point of views as well as understood human factor in both. Both phenomena can be utilized better by conscious awareness towards them and linkages between them should be understood. This paper presents research which shows that time and innovativeness development needs are behaving similarly. The correlation between these two phenomena was found and different development personalities are introduced as a conclusion. Future research aspects and recommendations are also discussed in this paper
War and Globalization: Understanding the Linkage
Major wars between great powers like the two World Wars and the Cold War during the twentieth century, participated to the second globalization process. But dealing with the relations between globalization and war must not be reduced to warfare as an independent variable. For more than two decades, International Relations (IR) scholars have focused on the transformation of war as a result from globalization. The dynamic shrinking of distance on a large scale caused some effects on warfare, on war but also on models and tools in order to understand these dimensions of strategy. What are the effects of globalization on the transformation of war debate? To what extent some new approaches aim at producing an epistemic revolution? This chapter introduces the classic debate between realisms and liberalisms concerning these links between globalization of war. This debate does not change the epistemic beliefs that lead the academic field in IR contrary to the new wars debate initiated by post-clausewitzian approaches that aims at dissolving the modern distinctions: war and peace, combatant and non-combatant, politics and crime. The chapter ends with a third perspective that describes the impacts of globalization—defined as the development of interdependencies at different levels—on the capacity interaction. In this last perspective, globalization is both a context and an opportunity for actors in order to make war …. but also peace. By coming back to Political theory, analysis of war today shows the emergence of a ‘global state of war’