Abstract In this paper, I highlight three objections to vice-based accounts of moral evil: (1) the worry that evil are explanatorily inadequate; (2) even extreme vice is not sufficient for evil; and (3) all vices inversions virtue (and so will struggle explain “mirror thesis”). argue it possible respond these by developing a account draws on insights from vice) epistemology. way, seek defend st...

The number of networked multimedia platforms that areintroduced into the market has increased dramatically in re-cent years. Current approaches to multimedia distributiondo not scale to this growing set of client configurations andheterogeneous dynamic networks. We propose a distributedarchitecture that offers a scalable solution to multimediapublication and distribution...

Visionary projections of a wide area network teeming with intelligent agents describe an environment where end users and their agents can pick and choose among a great variety of potentially valuable information ser vices However neither network capabilities nor users time and money are in nite Computational markets provide one type of mechanism for allocating limited resources in such an envir...

INTRODUCTION Between the years 1337 and 1339, the artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti adorned the walls of the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, Italy, with frescoes depicting allegories of good government and bad government and their effects on city and country (see Fig. 1). His imagery is lucid and effective. The “good government” fresco depicts a wise monarch surrounded by personifications of virtues such a...

1 Allen Lee was the accepting Senior Editor for this article. 2 The authors wish to thank: Jennifer Saldanha, J.D. Edwards Senior Manager, Web Communications and Services; Ben Martin, J.D. Edwards Vice President of Global Content Management; and Ruth Chambers, former Senior Corporate IT Manager in Knowledge Management Services at J.D. Edwards. Thanks also to the reviewers and the senior editor ...

A novel nonlinear model for MESFET/HEMT devices is presented. The model can be applied to low power (GaAs) and high power (GaN) devices with equal success. The model provides accurate simulation of the static (DC) and dynamic (Pulsed) I-V characteristics of the device over a wide bias and ambient temperature range (from −70◦C to +70◦C) without the need of an additional electro-thermal sub-circu...

In this study, the amplitudes best suited to compare four input de-vices are examined in the context of a pointer-based system con-trol interface for immersive virtual environments. The interfacesare based on a pen and tablet, a touch tablet, hand-tracking usingKinect and a Wii Nunchuk analog stick. This is done as a pre-liminary study in order to be able to compare the ...

Isn’t it an artificial, sterilized, didactically pruned world, a mere sham world in which you cravenly vegetate, a world without vices, without passions without hunger, without sap and salt, a world without family, without mothers, without children, almost without women? The instinctual life is tamed by meditation. For generations you have left to others dangerous, daring, and responsible thing...

Crystallization, commonly defined as a process of formation of a crystalline solid from a supersaturated solution, melt or vapor phase, is an old technique widely used in laboratory and in industrial processes to separate and purify substances. In various modern industries, crystalline forms with a certain habit, size and structure, constitute the basic materials for the production of highly so...