The establishment of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has coincided with a burgeoning of interest and activity related to bioethical issues at NIH. The department has precipitated a reexamination and revitalization of existing bioethics activities in the Clinical Center and has launched new programs especia...

Moira G. Simpson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia. She has written extensively on the subjects of museums, indigenous cultural politics and repatriation. Her publications include Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era and Museums and Repatriation. Her current research interests relate to the care and protec...

Eduardo Rojas is a Senior Urb an Planner with the Inter-American Development Bank, supervising the bank's urban deve lopment portfolio. H e is currently desig ning several urban h eritag e preservation and revitalization loans and technical coop erations. He is task manager f or the Quito Historic Center Rehabilitation Loan granted to Ecuador. His degrees are in architecture, urban planning, an...

In this paper, we propose a Multimedia Scripting System (MSS) to support endangered language learning. With the use of advanced multimedia techniques and web 2.0 technology, MSS provides a user friendly environment to ensure that general users (without strong technical backgrounds) in an on-line community can effectively and collectively create multimedia stories and game scripts for a common c...

In order to study the influence and development of transportation on rural revitalization in suburban counties southern China, Xinzhai Town, Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province, was selected as research object, field interviews data collection were used analyze practical impact significance road traffic revitalization.

Ainu is a language spoken by the Ainu people, a minority ethnic group in Japan. The development of syntactic corpora for Ainu is crucial both for the advancement of linguistic theories and for language revitalization. To solve the situation, we experimentally annotated a short poem of AinuwithUniversal Dependencies version 2 scheme. In this paper, we report several language-specific suggestions...

Concepts of a CELSS anticipate the use of photosynthetic organisms (higher plants and algae) for air revitalization. The rates of production and uptake of carbon dioxide and oxygen between the crew and the photosynthetic organisms are mismatched. An algal [correction of aglal] system used for gas exchange only will have the difficulty of an accumulation or depletion of these gases beyond phys...