Surrogacy world's perspective – A review

Surrogacy: a Catholic perspective.

Building Virtual Worlds: A City Planning Perspective

Computing, networking and virtual reality technologies are gradually approaching the level of maturity where large scale multi-user virtual environments will be possible. This will inevitably lead to the development of large scale spaces for the on-line community to meet, socialise and carry out business. We might consider these environments to be virtual towns or, eventually, virtual cities wh...

Compensated transnational surrogacy in Australia: time for a comprehensive review.

Commercial or compensated surrogacy involves providing payment for a woman to gestate a fetus to term and then hand over the child to commissioning parent(s). Compensated surrogacy is currently restricted by law or regulation in all Australian states and territories. New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory also restrict commissioning transnational compensated surrogacy,...

Cosmology and Brane Worlds: A Review

Cosmological consequences of the brane world scenario are reviewed in a pedagogical manner. According to the brane world idea, the standard model particles are confined on a hyper–surface (a so–called brane), which is embedded in a higher– dimensional spacetime (the so–called bulk). We begin our review with the simplest consistent brane world model: a single brane embedded in a five–dimensional...

Behavior Participation in Virtual Worlds: A Triandis Model Perspective

Emerging virtual technology suggests that we are moving into a new age of technology, Web 3.0, in which social networks and 3D virtual environments are prominent. Many new business opportunities present themselves in this context. However, business success in the new virtual world requires an understanding of how people behave in virtual worlds so that they can be effectively and efficiently ma...