In this essay I will explore an understanding of the potential moral agency of robots, arguing that the key characteristics of physical embodiment, adaptive learning, empathy in action, and a teleology toward the good are the primary necessary components for a machine to become a moral agent. In this context, other possible options will be rejected as necessary for moral agency, including simpl...

The ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transplantation was developed in Japan in 1989. Currently, most transplant physicians and surgeons have noted that outcomes are unexpectedly excellent, and no hyperacute rejections have been reported since 2001. In the registry of the Japanese ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Committee, the data of 2434 ABO-incompatible living-donor kidney transpl...

The HAL 9000 computer, the inimitable star of the classic Kubrick and Clarke film "2001: A Space Odyssey," displayed image understanding capabilities vastly beyond today’s computer systems. HAL could not only instantly recognize who he was interacting with, but also he could lip read, judge aesthetics of visual sketches, recognize emotions subtly expressed by scientists on board the ship, and r...

An ab initio study of the mono-and difluorides of krypton. Results from ab initio calculations at the CCSD͑T͒ level of theory are presented for krypton monofluoride ͑KrF͒, krypton monofluoride cation (KrF ϩ), linear, ground-state krypton difluoride (KrF 2), the triplet state of krypton difluoride, and the krypton–fluorine van der Waals complex (Kr–F 2). These are the first calculations demonstratin...

Antecedentes y Objetivos: Con excepción de las compilaciones 2020 para algas rojas la ficoflora en México, desde los catálogos previos al 2001, no se han realizado otros trabajos que involucren revisión actualización del estatus pardas el Atlántico mexicano. El objetivo este estudio fue integrar un listado Golfo México Caribe mexicano consideren todas actualizaciones taxonómicas 2001 a fecha. M...

Abstract Introduction Patients with aortic stenosis often develop hypertrophy and fibrosis, regardless of symptoms. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) represents the gold standard for evaluation fibrosis despite numerous limitations: cost, availability, atrial fibrillation, claustrophobia, kidney failure or inability to apnea. Aim The aim is validate role echocardiographic parameters, such as Glo...

California, Davis Student Health Center (UCDSHC) has made prescribing NTF preferred for acute cystitis since 2001 as TMP/SMX has community resistance rates of ~20%. Ciprofloxacin is the second line agent at UCDSHC. Methods. UCDSHC reviewed all urine cultures and susceptibilities for clinical and epidemiologic purposes. Susceptibility results were gathered from the UCDSHC microbiology laboratory...

California, Davis Student Health Center (UCDSHC) has made prescribing NTF preferred for acute cystitis since 2001 as TMP/SMX has community resistance rates of ~20%. Ciprofloxacin is the second line agent at UCDSHC. Methods. UCDSHC reviewed all urine cultures and susceptibilities for clinical and epidemiologic purposes. Susceptibility results were gathered from the UCDSHC microbiology laboratory...