This paper considers federal requirements to institute a research program on societal and ethical considerations of nanotechnology, and to integrate the results of this research with nanotechnology research and development. It identifies research selection and assessment criteria derived in part from criticism of the Human Genome Project’s Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications program. This...

translation historiography is a research area that has attracted the attention of translation scholars in recent years. as a significant research area of translation historiography, exploring the national history of translation criticism can contribute to the delineation of how translation theory and practice correlate in a specific culture. moreover, it can indicate the extent of development o...

As we await the release of the forthcoming DSM-5 and the development of the ICD-11, issues pertaining to the classification and diagnosis of mental disorders have become more prominent. With criticism and anticipation abounding, pertaining to the modification, or lack of, of the diagnostic criteria of mental disorders, have we become overly focused upon the diagnostic criteria to the detriment ...

BACKGROUND As suggested by Shook and Giordano, understanding and therefore addressing the urgent international governance issues around globalizing bio-medical/technology research and applications is limited by the perception of the underlying science. METHODS A philosophical methodology is used, based on novel and classical philosophical reflection upon existent literature, clinical wisdoms ...

IT security certification and IT security evaluation criteria have changed their character compared with the first efforts ca. 20 years ago. They have also gained more interest within civilian and commercial application areas. Therefore this paper compares them with earlier criticism and with the new challenges in IT security. After an introduction into the concept of security certification the...

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

Sociolinguistic research suggests that women are more likely than men to use politeness strategies in their speech. Researchers have reported that women pay more compliments than men, that women in talk with same-sex peers use a large number of positive-politeness strategies while men in analogous situations do not, and that women are more likely to apologize, soften criticism or express thanks...

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...