PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE ETHICS OF RECOGNITION, RESPONSIBILITY, AND RESPECT

Presidential Address: the Ethics of Recognition, Responsibility, and Respect

Ethics can be understood as a code of behaviour or as the study of codes of behaviour. While the mission of the International Association of Bioethics is a scholarly examination of moral issues in health care and the biological sciences, many people in the field believe that it is also their task to create new and better codes of practice. Both ways of doing bioethics are sound, but it is impor...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Presidential address of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine: Education: commodity or responsibility?

Presidential address: The Endocrine Society.

IN the course of a career most of us have multiple opportunities to contribute something to the Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society. Usually these opportunities take the form of ten-minute papers concerning some recent discovery. At this moment I wish I could tell you about the discovery of a new steroid associated with high blood pressure, or the discovery of a new peptide hormone, or the ...

The Knowledge Level (Presidential Address)

This is the first presidential address of AAAI, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In the grand scheme of history, even the history of artificial intelligence (AI), this is surely a minor event. The field this scientific society represents has been thriving for quite some time. No doubt the society itself will make solid contributions to the health of our field But it is too ...