The Social and Ethical Aspects of Nuclear Waste

The Social and Ethical Aspects of Nuclear Waste

The Middle Ground for Nuclear Waste Management: Social and Ethical Aspects of Shallow Storage

The 2001 terrorist attacks in the USA and the 2011 seismic events in Japan have brought into sharp relief the vulnerabilities involved in storing nuclear waste on the land’s surface. Nuclear engineers and waste managers are deciding that disposing nuclear waste deep underground is the preferred management option. However, deep disposal of nuclear waste is replete with enormous technical uncerta...

Ethical and social aspects of robots

Robotics is a very fast growing field especially in the last years and is a discipline based on: mechanics, physics/mathematics, control engineering, electr(on)ics, computer science. Therefore robots are frequently used as examples for Mechatronic Systems. Robotics unifies two cultures: Science and humanities. The effort to design roboethics should make the unity of these two cultures a primary...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

on the relationship between cultural, social intelligences and literary translation ability of iranian translation students

با توجه سرعت روز افزون جهانی سازی نیاز به مهارتهای میان فرهنگی نیز افزایش یافته است. از سوی دیگر تعاملات اجتماعی و نیازهای فرهنگی منوط به ترجمه است. بدین ترتیب مطالعه ترجمه از دیدگاه اجتماعی ضروری به نظر می رسد. برای نیل به این هدف، در تحقیق حاضر به بررسی رابطه همبستگی بین دو هوش فرهنگی و اجتماعی با توانش ترجمه ادبی دانشجویان (سال سوم) مترجمی زبان انگلیسی پرداخته شده است. همچنین قابلیت پیش بینی...