Plasma Sterilization: What are the Conditions to Meet this Claim?

What are Stem Cells?

  Stem cells are undifferentiated self regenerating multi potential cells. There are three types of stem cells categories by the ability to form after cells and correlated with the body’s development process. Totipotent: these stem cells can form an entire organism such as fertilized egg. Ploripotent: ploripotent cells are those that can form any cell in the body but cannot form an entire organ...

Intelligent Biohybrid Neurotechnologies: Are They Really What They Claim?

In the era of 'intelligent' biohybrid neurotechnologies for brain repair, new fanciful terms are appearing in the scientific dictionary to define what has so far been unimaginable. As the emerging neurotechnologies are becoming increasingly polyhedral and sophisticated, should we talk about evolution and rank the intelligence of these devices?

The contribution of a mature real estate market to urban regeneration: What are the prerequisites?

What Are Filter Conditions For?

Many extensions to the basic STRIPS action representation have been proposed. Many of them amount to the use of filter conditions, preconditions which do not become subgoals. The purposes to which filter conditions have been put and the justifications for their use have seldom been made clear. In this paper we clarify and examine the various arguments that appear to lie behind their use. We con...

An excessive claim: sterilization and immediate material cooperation.

Fr. James Keenan, S.J. has recently written on the important issue of institutional cooperation and the 1994 Ethical and Religious Directives of the National Catholic Conference of Bishops. He observes that the subject of institutional cooperation has been the cause of substantial discussion among ethicists, bishops, and administrators of Catholic healthcare facilities. In an article for this j...