63 research outputs found
EVOLUTIONARY RISK OF HIGH HUME TECHNOLOGIES. Article 2. THE GENESIS AND MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTIONARY RISK
Sources of evolutionary risk for stable strategy of adaptive Homo sapiens are an imbalance of: (1) the
intra-genomic co-evolution (intragenomic conflicts); (2) the gene-cultural co-evolution; (3) inter-cultural
co-evolution; (4) techno-humanitarian balance; (5) inter-technological conflicts (technological traps). At
least phenomenologically the components of the evolutionary risk are reversible, but in the aggregate they
are in potentio irreversible destructive ones for biosocial, and cultural self-identity of Homo sapiens. When
the actual evolution is the subject of a rationalist control and/or manipulation, the magnitude of the 4th
and 5th components of the evolutionary risk reaches a level of existential significance
POST-INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE OF XXI CENTURY – RATIONALISM VERSUS IRRATIONALISM: EVOLUTIONARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT
The phenomenon of rationalism and irrationalism, contextually
related to the transformation methodology and the social function of
modern (post-industrial) science – social verification, interpretation
and knowledge, etc., are analyzes
EVOLUTIONARY RISK OF HIGH HUME TECHNOLOGIES. Article 3. EVOLUTIONARY SEMANTICS AND BIOETHICS
The co-evolutionary concept of three-modal stable evolutionary strategy of Homo sapiens is developed. The
concept based on the principle of evolutionary complementarity of anthropogenesis: value of evolutionary
risk and evolutionary path of human evolution are defined by descriptive (evolutionary efficiency) and
creative-teleological (evolutionary correctness) parameters simultaneously, that cannot be instrumental reduced
to other ones. Resulting volume of both parameters define the vectors of biological, social, cultural
and techno-rationalistic human evolution by two gear mechanism — genetic and cultural co-evolution and
techno-humanitarian balance. Explanatory model and methodology of evaluation of creatively teleological
evolutionary risk component of NBIC technological complex is proposed. Integral part of the model is
evolutionary semantics (time-varying semantic code, the compliance of the biological, socio-cultural and
techno-rationalist adaptive modules of human stable evolutionary strategy)
Gyroscope deviation from geodesic motion: quasiresonant oscillations on a circular orbit
General relativistic spin-orbit interaction leads to the quasiresonant
oscillation of the gyroscope mass center along the orbital normal. The beating
amplitude does not include the speed of light and equals the ratio of the
intrinsic momentum of the gyroscope to its orbital momentum. The modulation
frequency equals the angular velocity of the geodetic precession that prevents
the oscillation from resonance. The oscillation represents the precession of
the gyroscope orbital momentum. Within an acceptable time the oscillation
amplitude reaches the values that are amenable to being analyzed
experimentally. Taking into account the source oblateness decreases the beating
amplitude and increases the modulation frequency by the factor that is equal to
the ratio of the quadrupole precession velocity to the geodetic precession
velocity. The period of the quadrupole precession turns out to be a quite
sufficient time to form a measurable amplitude of the oscillation.Comment: 5 pages, LaTeX2e, 1 eps figure, to appear in J. Exp. Theor. Phy
The dynamics of the change of leukotrienes synthesis and lipoperoxidation activity during the early period of the treatment of the patients with duodental peptic ulcer in comorbination with essential hypertension
Prospects for further research. The dynamics of the change of the leukotrienes content and the lipid peroxidation activity during the early period of the treatment of the patients with duodenal peptic ulcer in combination with essential hypertension suggests clarification of pathogenetic mechanisms of their synthesis’ activation and determines the search of the possible ways of the revealed disorders’ correction
Building the capacity to solve complex health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa : CARTA’s multidisciplinary PhD training
Objectives: To develop a curriculum (Joint Advanced Seminars- JAS) that produced PhD fellows who understood that health is an outcome of multiple determinants within complex environments and that approaches from a range of disciplines is required to address health and development within the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa. We sought to attract PhD fellows, supervisors and teaching faculty from a range of disciplines into the program.
Methods: Multidisciplinary teams developed the JAS curriculum. CARTA PhD fellowships were open to academics in consortium member institutions, irrespective of primary discipline, interested in doing a PhD in public and population health. Supervisors and JAS faculty were recruited from CARTA institutions. We use routine JAS evaluation data (closed and open ended questions) collected from PhD fellows at every JAS, a survey of one CARTA cohort and an external evaluation of CARTA to assess the impact of the JAS curriculum on learning.
Results: We describe our pedagogic approach arguing its centrality to an appreciation of multiple disciplines and illustrate how it promotes working in multidisciplinary ways. CARTA has attracted PhD fellows, supervisors and JAS teaching faculty from across a range of disciplines. Evaluations indicate PhD fellows have a greater appreciation of how disciplines other than their own are important to understand health and its determinants and an appreciation and capacity to employ mixed methods research.
Conclusions: In the short-term, we have been effective in promoting an understanding of multidisciplinarity resulting in fellows using methods from beyond their discipline of origin. This curriculum has international application
- …