We present an overview of recent works in which age is an important driving factor for Human-Computer Interaction design and development. These serve as starting grounds to discuss current practices and highlight challenges that might serve as beacons for future research in the field.

Using animals as research subjects in medical investigations is widely condemned on two grounds: first, because it wrongly violates the rights of animals, and second, because it wrongly imposes on sentient creatures much avoidable suffering. Neither of these arguments is sound. The first relies on a mistaken understanding of rights; the second relies on a mistaken calculation of consequences. B...

Biopsy samples from 411 humpback whales obtained during surveys of the Japanese Whale Research Program under Special Permit in the Antarctic and International Decade for Cetacean Research/Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research were analyzed in order to describe their genetic population structure in the Antarctic feeding grounds. Samples were obtained from International Whaling Commission (...

The nature of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) song has long interested both scientists and the general public. Research strongly indicates that humpback whale song is an important component in the social behaviour of breeding humpback whales, with proposals that the song has an intraand/or inter-sexual selection component. Some scientists, however, have alternate hypotheses, such as son...

Using a wide range of modern mineralogical and physicochemical methods, representative collection human bones from seven burial grounds the Vychegda Permians 11th–14th centuries was studied. The microstructure bones, their chemical normative-mineral composition, content microelements, nanoporosity organo-mineral composite, composition properties bioanatite bone collagen were analyzed. Fundament...

BACKGROUND Decisions on disability pensions are based, among others, on medical reports. The way these medical assessments are performed is largely unclear. The aim of the study was to determine which grounds are used by social insurance physicians (SIPs) in these assessments and to determine if the identification of these grounds can help improve the quality of assessments in social insurance ...

The Roman Catholic Church in Australia has lobbied politicians to prohibit embryonic stem cell research, on the grounds that such research violates the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. I suggest, however, that reasoned reflection does not uniquely support such conclusions about the morality of stem cell research. A recent parliamentary standing committee report recommended that embr...

We argue that responsible conduct research (RCR) instruction should be extended beyond students and trainees funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or National Science Foundation (NSF) to include all students, trainees, faculty, and research staff involved in research. Extending the scope of RCR instruction can help institutions develop and maintain an environment that promotes ethic...

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