The aim of this paper is to discuss the nature of human beings, both from the Western and the Eastern perspectives. The first chapter will deal with Western concepts of human being, beginning with Plato. Since we come across four views in Western philosophy, this chapter will be divided into four sections, dealing with the following views: a) rationality as the defining property of human beings...

The possibility that market interaction may erode moral values is a long-standing, but controversial, hypothesis in the social sciences, ethics, and philosophy. To date, empirical evidence on decay of moral values through market interaction has been scarce. We present controlled experimental evidence on how market interaction changes how human subjects value harm and damage done to third partie...

The Hippocratic oath which I have just administered to myself before you in all solemnity—an oath which was never administered to me at any stage of my career. None of you too, I guess, has ever been subjected to this or any such oath. Although the Hippocratic oath may look out of place in our midst, the noble sentiments and high ideals expressed therein, the guiding principles for doctors arc ...

By Leo P. Kadanoff1 February 2002, page 10 Games of chance are often used as conceptual models of random processes in nature. For example, an exhibit on the heart in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry includes a kind of pinball machine. After the balls bounce somewhat randomly through this machine, they fall into bins symbolizing the different states of health of one’s heart. One can bias...

This article addresses the synchrony between a Western middle-range theory of care for persons with dementia and traditional Korean nursing care. The Western theory is called a need-driven, dementia-compromised behavior model and is heavily influenced by the assessment categories outlined in Nightingale's work. This model is presented as congruent with Nightingale's work and then viewed from th...

The emerging area of network biology is seeking to provide insights into organizational principles of life. However, despite significant collaborative efforts, there is still typically a weak link between biological and computational scientists and a lack of understanding of the research issues across the disciplines. This results in the use of simple computational techniques of limited potenti...

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We introduce an extended model for view-centric reasoning, EVCR, that provides more comprehensive and flexible abstractions for representing actual concurrency. The theory of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) provides an interleaved semantics for reasoning about concurrency through a sequentialized trace of events recorded by an idealized observer. The theory of View-Centric Reasoning (V...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly becoming a critical tool for growers and researchers. We describe how the technology has advanced, starting with a commercially available WSN node and pushing the technology to make the data more meaningful, actionable and to add advanced irrigation control functionality. User features such as spatial views, custom charts, real-time data access, ...

Most of the international boundaries in Africa were delimited in the last quarter of the 19 century. The adoption of the “Uttis possedis” principle of boundary maintenance by African states in 1963 solidified the boundary regimes. The state-centric policies in border management result in further conflicts, wars and litigation depriving of cross-border cooperation. Though attempts at economic co...