2014 Student Debates

2014 CEHS Student Research Conference- Abstracts

2014 CEHS Student Research Conference- Abstracts

Ethical Debates on Synthetic Biology

Background: As an emerging interdisciplinary area of science with a multitude of potential facilities and applications, synthetic biology integrates different disciplines with one another ranging from basic science to engineering. This interdisciplinary branch therefore encompasses sciences that require specific development and ethical approaches. Materials and Methods: Science management princ...

DEBATES Health and sustainability

In the present article, we explore how sustainable development strategies and health promotion strategies can be bridged. The concept of the ‘duality of structure’ is taken as our starting point for understanding the linkages between health promotion and sustainable development, and for uncovering the structural properties or conditions which either enable or constrain sustainable public health...

Bipartite Digraphs Debates

A novel graph-based model for aggregating dichotomous preferences is introduced. The output opinion is viewed as a consensual situation, paving the way of using graph operations to describe properties of the aggregators. The outputs are also dichotomous preferences which could be useful in some applications. New axiomatic characterizations of aggregators corresponding to usual majority or appro...