Speculative design is a subsidiary field of critical practice. It generally involves developing scenarios based on central object, often prototype. Because it concerned with alternative present and future states, many acknowledge the potential speculative for raising discussion public engagement science, technology, society. In this article, we ask how analogy to thought experiments highlights ...

In this paper we argue that the dominant model of accountability, which binds it to responsibility, is untenable, and propose a conception speculative accountability as an alternative. We develop apply in context problematic animal explored Jacques Derrida’s posthumanism; Donna Haraway’s critical response Derrida; ethology Vinciane Despret; María Puig de la Bellacasa’s studies ethics care. The ...

Twenty-two patients with the clinical diagnosis of transient ischemic attacks were prospectively evaluated by computed tomography (CT) and proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Nineteen patients also underwent cerebral angiography. The MRI studies were performed with a prototype super-conductive magnet using a 0.6 Tesla or a 1.5 Tesla magnetic field. Two pulse sequence techniques were used r...

The pharmacological treatment of migraine may be acute or preventive. Frequent, Severe, complicated and long lasting migraine attacks, more than 2 attacks in month require prophylaxis. Traditional preventive drugs such as ?-Blockers, antidepressants, calcium blockers and anticonvulsants, despite their documented efficacy, have many side effects. This study was conducted to determine the effect ...

A speaker's selective recounting of memories shared with a listener will induce both the speaker and the listener to forget unmentioned, related material more than unmentioned, unrelated material. We extended this finding of within-individual and socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting to well-rehearsed, emotionally intense memories that are similar for the speaker and listener, but differ...

the incorporation of several anti-rodent masterbatches into polyethylene (pe) granules used for gas pipes and the effects of the masterbatches on the physical properties of the pipes were studied. four commercial anti-rodent masterbatches from different international companies including, clariant, alchemix, polyone, and newgen were used in this research. each of the masterbatch was primarily dr...

We explore the use of speculative language in MEDLINE abstracts. Results from a manual annotation experiment suggest that the notion of speculative sentence can be reliably annotated by humans. In addition, an experiment with automated methods also suggest that reliable automated methods might also be developed. Distributional observations are also presented as well as a discussion of possible ...