How to Squeeze Human Capital Out of Human Beings

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

On cloning human beings.

The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cloning is developed. I will analyze some of the assumptions underlying the main arguments that hav...

Gnathostomiasis in Human Beings

The deaths of human beings.

In ‘When Does a Human Being Die?’ Schofield et al. present a definition of death focused on the ‘final denouement’ of human beings as biological organisms. Their view is such that the moment of death occurs ‘when the last process in the collection of bodily processes that maintain homoeostasis finally cease[s]’. Whilst this definition avoids certain conceptual problems there are difficulties wi...

How to squeeze a lexicon

Minimal acyclic deterministic finite automata (ADFAs) can be used as a compact representation of finite string sets with fast access time. Creating them with traditional algorithms of DFA minimization is a resource hog when a large collection of strings is involved. This paper aims to popularize an efficient but little known algorithm for creating minimal ADFAs recognizing a finite language, in...