Since the invention of synthetic plastics in 1950s, they have inevitably dominated all other materials such as metals, glass, wood, etc [...]

Some authors have argued that the human use of reproductive cloning and genetic engineering should be prohibited because these biotechnologies would undermine the autonomy of the resulting child. In this paper, two versions of this view are discussed. According to the first version, the autonomy of cloned and genetically engineered people would be undermined because knowledge of the method by w...

In this paper, a novel method using a dynamic pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensor to detect and identification the moving target is presented. The sensor equipped with an infrared lens acts as an optical setup for this system, which is driven by a uniformly rotating device, a single detector can collect into infrared signals within a range of 360 . The method solves the problems that improving t...

Sugar-derived reactive carbonyls (RCs), including methylglyoxal (MG), are aggressive by-products of oxidative stress known to impair the functions of multiple proteins. These advanced glycation end-products accumulate in patients with diabetes mellitus and cause major complications, including arteriosclerosis and cardiac insufficiency. In the glycolytic pathway, the equilibration reactions betw...

Attrition is a potential source of bias in cohort studies. Although attrition may be inevitable in cohort studies of older people, there is little empirical evidence as to whether bias due to such attrition is also inevitable. Anonymised primary care data, routinely collected in clinical practice and independent of any cohort research study, represents an ideal unselected comparison dataset wit...

The usual, comparative, conception of Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) takes it to be ampliative. In this paper I propose a conception of IBE (‘Holmesian inference’) that takes it to be a species of eliminative induction and hence not ampliative. This avoids several problems for comparative IBE (e.g. how could it be reliable enough to generate knowledge?). My account of Holmesian inferen...

The quest for high-performance and scalable devices required next-generation semiconductor applications inevitably passes through the fabrication of high-quality materials complex designs [...]

It is easy to get caught up in the day day, even month month. CFOs live and die by quarter. But there are major business technology trends that C-Suite executives—regardless of their day-to-day function—need understand respect. Why? Because these will inevitably profoundly impact companies likely forever change industries they occupy. In fact, processes entire models be turned upside down trend...

the formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. this is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. this may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. but it’s important t...