Sib,?Most painfully aware of the many instances of suffering and danger to the lives of mothers and their unborn children which not unfrequently fall under the sad experience of medical men, practising either among the natives of the metropolis or the rural inhabitants of the Mofussil, owing to the heedlessness and natural tendency of the general public to put too blind a faith and confidence i...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) should reduce traffic accidents, but they will sometimes have to choose between two evils, such as running over pedestrians or sacrificing themselves and their passenger to save the pedestrians. Defining the algorithms that will help AVs make these moral decisions is a formidable challenge. We found that participants in six Amazon Mechanical Turk studies approved of ut...

In Brazil, there appears to be no doubt concerning the evils caused by Abraham Flexner, his Report, and the Flexnerian Biomedical Model (FBM), conceived and promoted by private foundations and linked to the U.S. health-industrial complex. In this article, I submit the above proposition to a rigorous critical inquiry. I begin with an overview of Flexner's life and work. I then review various rep...

In his book Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba argues that the Plantingian free-will defense, which reconciles existence of good and omnipotent with evil, is failed argument when it comes to terrible evils in world. This study discusses Sterba’s claim invalid Plantinga’s defense modified structural perspective. order reconcile inevitable possibility evil God’s moral imperatives, wa...

Following the Iranian Revolution, ideologues within Republican system promised possibility of ethical perfection so long as Iranians adhered to guidelines promulgated by state. Drawing on a case study both critics and supporters government living in Mashhad, I argue that one inadvertent outcomes this commitment perfectionism has been its instrumentalization tool condemn behaviour state supporte...

Application-led research is vitally important – applications provide designers and developers of ubiquitous computing systems with requirements, drive progress towards solutions, validate technology and provide insights into technology use. They offer the chance to demonstrate the usefulness of complex systems components that might otherwise be difficult to appreciate and they are, of course, i...

BACKGROUND With the release of the H1N1 vaccine, there was much controversy surrounding its use despite strong encouragements to be vaccinated in the media. Though studies have examined factors influencing people's decision to be vaccinated, few have focused on how general beliefs about the world or where an individual gathers information might influence that decision. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL F...

Information plays a major role in any moral action. ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) have revolutionized the life of information, from its production and management to its consumption, thus deeply affecting our moral lives. Amid the many issues they have raised, a very serious one, discussed in this paper, is labelled the tragedy of the Good Will. This is represented by the incr...

as dispellers of evils and diseases. Mythologically a snake is represented as a creature emerging from the earth and is therefore associated with the mystery of the earth and represents the magic of prophecies, power, dreams and as an aid to the physician in the art of healing. The snakes have therefore from early history became a ritualistic symbol oi whatever is hidden and mysterious. Even to...