Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…Tremmel, Jörg / Wilhelm, James (2015): Democracy or epistocracy? Age as a criterion of voter eligibility. …”
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Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…In a collaboration between researchers form Spain and Ireland, Francisco Dominguez-Mateos, Vincent O’Brien, James Garland, Ryan Furlong, and Daniel Palacios-Alonso present their research on zero-shot learning for sub-discrimination in pre-trained models to differentiate several attributes such as gender, age, and skin tone, without any additional training.Enjoy Reading!…”
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IGJR issue 1/2018 by IF and FRFG

“…What indices exist to measure the (lack of ) well-being of young people as a distinctive group? …”
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Should the Food and Drug Administration Limit Placebo-Controlled Trials? by Max Goodman, Connor Pedersen

“…Other measures that would satisfy Clause 33, the Belmont Report, and the Common Rule are the use of large retrospective observational trials for comparison rather than a prospective placebo group. Ultimately, it is ethically necessary that the FDA modify its practices regarding drug approval and more stringently scrutinize PCTs as well as adopt more favorable approaches to other comparative models. …”
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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Much of the moral force behind advance directives is the respect for patient autonomy, which has been a focus of researchers over the past several years.[33] Because psychiatric episodes severely limit the ability of a patient to make well-informed treatment decisions in a crisis, PADs are a way to protect the patient from paternalistic interventions. …”
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The Bioethics-CSR Divide by Caio Caesar Dib

“…Cut Out of the Same Cloth The earliest record of the word “bioethics” dates back to 1927 as a term that designates one’s ethical responsibility toward not only human beings but other lifeforms as well, such as animals and plants.[1] Based on Kantian ethics, the term was coined as a response to the great prestige science held at its time. …”
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Creation of Beta Crystal Structure in Random Polypropylene with the Help of Pimelic Acid-Based Nucleator: the Role of Nucleator Addition Method and the Presence of Isotactic Polypr... by H. Ghorbani, R. Bagheri

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FILOSOFAVIMAS KAIP PASIRUOŠIMAS MIRČIAI by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…Though advocating one approach but at the same time unable to distance from the other because of his anonymity, he realizes his engagement with philosophy with a sense of tragedy. Greek philosopher is forced to renounce the everyday thinking as well as his body that he associates with this kind of thinking. …”
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