Biotechnology and Social Aspect

Social Aspect of Vehicular Communications

The interconnection of devices is expected to grow and to incorporate systems that used to be isolated. As the vehicle evolves from a simple transport machine to an intelligent entity that collects information from the environment and uses it in order to take decisions in real time, it is becoming an active member of a smart city. The integration of vehicular communications with smartphones hel...

Biotechnologies: Current Achievements and Prospects Social Acceptance of Biotechnology-derived Products Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Understanding the Social Controversies over Agricultural Biotechnology

Introduction In sociology social problems are a subject of inquiry and teaching. That subject is a central aspect of any sociology curriculum at a higher education institution (Best, 2011). However, there is not a single definition of what constitutes a social problem. And, what is perceived as a social problem or not is highly subjective; that is, one person’s social problem can be another per...

Aspect Selection for Social Recommender Systems

In this paper, we extend our previous work on social recommender systems to harness knowledge from product reviews. By mining product reviews, we can exploit sentiment-rich content to ascertain user opinion expressed over product aspects. Aspect aware sentiment analysis provides a more structured approach to product comparison compared to one that is not. However, aspects extracted using NLP-ba...

Legal and social aspects of biotechnology in Poland.

Presented at the International Review Conference on Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria, November 2004 Legal and social aspects of biotechnology in Poland are of key interest for all of us but they are largely underestimated. Biotechnology is a very broad notion and may be discussed in at least four different fields, quite o�en labelled by colours: Green: this is agriculture and food industry; the ...

Legal, IPR and social aspects of biotechnology Lectures

The current European patent system is not satisfactory. Scientists, industrialists, administrators and politicians are not happy with legislation concerning Intellectual Property Rights, IPR. The innovative science brings new dilemmas like stem cells (pluripotent and totipotent) and digitalization of literature and data bases. Simultaneously, the cost of patenting is very high (mostly due to tr...