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CHIMBRIDS - Chimeras and Hybrids in Comparative European and International Research

Scientific, Ethical, Philosophical and Legal Aspects

National, European and international concepts and strategies concerning the legal and ethical framework of chimera and hybrid research are still largely missing, even though they are absolutely necessary in order to use the potential of chimera and hybrid research effectively and efficiently for the benefit of science and society. The outcome of the CHIMBRIDS-Project successfully sheds light on the chances and risks of this research and provides legal solutions to existing problems in order to help decision-makers fulfil their tasks in an informed and efficient manner. This comprehensive volume details the complete results, contributed by 40 scholars from 10 member states of the European Union, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Switzerland and the US, with descriptive reports of the legal situation in specific countries and in-depth analysis of all scientific, medical, ethical and legal implications of chimera and hybrid research.

Scientific, Ethical, Philosophical and Legal Aspects Jochen Taupitz, Marion
Weschka. Annex Annex - A. Chimbrids – Scientific, Ethical and Legal Reports
CHIMBRIDS-Chimeras and Hybrids in Comparative European and International
Research: Annex.

International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing

Informed by the most up-to-date research from around the world, as well as examples of good practice, this handbook analyzes values education in the context of a range of school-based measures associated with student wellbeing. These include social, emotional, moral and spiritual growth – elements that seem to be present where intellectual advancement and academic achievement are being maximized. This text comes as ‘values education’ widens in scope from being concerned with morality, ethics, civics and citizenship to a broader definition synonymous with a holistic approach to education in general. This expanded purview is frequently described as pedagogy relating to ‘values’ and ‘wellbeing’. This contemporary understanding of values education, or values and wellbeing pedagogy, fits well with recent neuroscience research. This has shown that notions of cognition, or intellect, are far more intertwined with social and emotional growth than earlier educational paradigms have allowed for. In other words, the best laid plans about the technical aspects of pedagogy are bound to fail unless the growth of the whole person – social, emotional, moral, spiritual and intellectual, is the pedagogical target. Teachers and educationalists will find that this handbook provides evidence, culled from both research and practice, of the beneficial effects of such a ‘values and wellbeing’ pedagogy.

Indeed, the entire thrust of the Handbook is in the suggestion that overly
enthusiastic attempts to separate and isolate effects, in the way of a species of
empirical research, is to miss the main point arising from new neuroscientific and
educational research that the greatest effect across the educational measures
occurs when they are perceived to be, and trialed as, conjoined in a nexus of
effects. As much as anything, the separation into sections seen in the Handbook
is therefore more ...

State-of-the-Art Theories and Empirical Evidence

Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference on Governance, Fraud, Ethics, and Social Responsibility

This book discusses several important issues related to corporate governance reporting, corporate social responsibility (CSR), fraud and bankruptcy. It gathers papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Governance, Fraud, Ethics and Social Responsibility, which was held in Penang, Malaysia on 18–19 November 2015. The content is divided into three major sub-themes: Corporate Governance and Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Development; and Ethics, Risk and Fraud. The first sub-theme addresses recently identified issues, such as corporate governance reporting, corporate governance regulation differences between countries, governance and financial market economics, financial market supervision, and control and risk management. In turn, the second sub-theme focuses on international auditing standards, green/socially responsible investment, environmental and social accounting and auditing, CSR-related matters, legislation and CSR reporting differences for public listed companies, accounting for sustainable development performance, and sustainability assessment models. The third sub-theme puts the spotlight on financial assessment and diagnosis, modeling, hedging, fraud, bankruptcy, accounting and auditing ethics and ethical problems in financial markets. Taken together, the issues discussed here provide state of art theories and empirical evidence approached from broad perspectives, making the book a valuable resource for researchers, students and practitioners alike.

Board capital, CEO power and R&D investment in electronics firms. Corporate
Governance: An International Review, 22(5), 422–436. Davies, M. W., & Whittred.
G. P. (1980). The association between selected corporate attributes and
timeliness in corporate reporting: Further analysis, Abacus, 16 (1), 48–60. Dyer,
J. D., & McHugh, A. J. (1975). The timeliness of the Australian annual report.
Journal of Accounting Research, 13(2), 204–219. Habib, A., & Bhuiyan, M. B. U. (
2011). Audit firm ...

Maqasid al-Shari’a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought

An Examination

It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept of Maqasid al-Shari'a (higher Objectives of Islamic Law) in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific issues pertaining to Islamic legal philosophy, law, ethics and the socio-political sphere.

Another novel aspect of Kamali's maqāṣidbased tafsīr is that it interpretationally
unifies what we could term as “the ethicoreligious dimensions” of the Qurʾānic
message with those dealing with the aḥkām when interpreting the legal
Qurʾānic injunctions. Kamali argues for the validity of this approach by stating
that the Qurʾān is not meant to be a law book but a bookof moral and spiritual
guidance and as such this impliesthatthe aḥkāmverses must sharea common
purpose with the ...

Tributary Empires in Global History

A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our perspective on modern concerns about empire and the legacy of colonialism.

agree on the observation that the centralisation efforts of Mahmud II which led to
the empowerment of royal authority in the empire would not have been possible
with the presence of the janissary corps. The destruction of the janissary corps in
1826 is thus represented as the most important action undertaken by Mahmud II
which made everything else that followed possible.27 With the janissaries gone,
Mahmud II had a free hand to do whatever he would like to, from closing down
the ...

Beyond Standard Model Phenomenology at the LHC

This thesis provides an introduction to the physics of the Standard Model and beyond, and to the methods used to analyse Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data. The 'hierarchy problem', astrophysical data and experiments on neutrinos indicate that new physics can be expected at the now accessible TeV scale. This work investigates extensions of the Standard Model with gravitons and gravitinos (in the context of supergravity). The production of these particles in association with jets is studied as one of the most promising avenues for researching new physics at the LHC. Advanced simulation techniques and tools, such as algorithms allowing the computation of Feynman graphs and helicity amplitudes are first developed and then employed.

The main physics event of 2012 was the announcement on July the 4th of the
discovery of a new boson at CERN with a mass close to 126 GeV. The on-going
analysis of the properties of the particle discovered last year points with
increasing evidence to the long awaited for particle related to the Brout-Englert-
Higgs mechanism introduced in the 1960s. The main focus of the investigations
at the LHC experiments now shifts to the possibility of finding other high-energy
phenomena ...

Recent Advances on Model Hosts

Most studies of bacterial or fungal infectious diseases focus separately on the pathogenic microbe, the host response, or the characterization of therapeutic compounds. Compartmentalization of pathogenesis-related research into an analysis of the “pathogen”, the “host,” or the “antimicrobial compound” has largely been dictated by the lack of model systems in which all of these approaches can be used simultaneously, as well as by the traditional view that microbiology, immunology, and chemical biology and pharmacology are separate disciplines. An increasing number of workers from different fields have turned to insects, fish, worms and other model hosts as facile, ethically expedient, relatively simple, and inexpensive hosts to model a variety of human infectious diseases and to study host responses and innate immunity. Because many of these hosts are genetically tractable, they can be used in conjunction with an appropriate pathogen to facilitate the discovery of novel features of the host innate immune response. This book provides a series of reports from the 1st International Conference on Model Hosts. This first of its kind meeting focused on invertebrate, vertebrate and amoeboid systems used for the study of host-pathogen interactions, virulence and immunity, as well as on the relevance of these pathogenesis systems and mammalian models. Importantly, a common, fundamental set of molecular mechanisms is employed by a significant number of microbial pathogens against a widely divergent array of metazoan hosts. Moreover, the evolutionarily conserved immune responses of these model hosts have contributed important insights to our understanding of the innate immune response of mammals. This book provides a series of reports from the 1st International Conference on Model Hosts. This first of its kind meeting focused on invertebrate, vertebrate and amoeboid systems used for the study of host-pathogen interactions, virulence and immunity, as well as on the relevance of these pathogenesis systems and mammalian models. Importantly, a common, fundamental set of molecular mechanisms is employed by a significant number of microbial pathogens against a widely divergent array of metazoan hosts. Moreover, the evolutionarily conserved immune responses of these model hosts have contributed important insights to our understanding of the innate immune response of mammals.

Introduction. Over the past two decades a number of findings made in Drosophila
melanogaster have provided important new insights into mammalian innate
immunity (Hoffmann et al. 1999; Martinelli and Reichhart 2005). The power of this
system is best exemplified by the discovery that Toll, a receptor used for dorso-
ventral patterning in ...

Model Checking Software

16th International SPIN Workshop, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2009, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2009, held in Grenoble, France, in June 2009. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 3 tool papers and 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers cover theoretical and algorithmic foundations as well as tools for software model checking by addressing theoretical advances and empirical evaluations related to state-space and path exploration techniques, as implemented in software verification tools.

16th International SPIN Workshop, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2009,
Proceedings Corina S. Pasareanu. Automatic Discovery of Transition Symmetry
in Multithreaded Programs Using Dynamic Analysis ⋆ Yu Yang 1, Xiaofang
Chen1, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan1, and Chao Wang2 1 School of Computing,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 2 NEC Laboratories America,
Princeton, New Jersey, USA Abstract. While symmetry reduction has been
established to be an important ...

Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students

The Role of Imagery, Analogy, and Mental Simulation

How do scientists use analogies and other processes to break away from old theories and generate new ones? This book documents such methods through the analysis of video tapes of scientifically trained experts thinking aloud while working on unfamiliar problems. Some aspects of creative scientific thinking are difficult to explain, such as the power of analogies, and the enigmatic ability to learn from thought experiments. This book is a window on that world.

In the torsion insight, the discovery of the new variable of torsion interrupted the
evaluation process that was occurring and sent the investigator suddenly back to
the generation/ discovery process. This challenges the distinction between the
context of discovery and context of evaluation in science when one is examining
thinking at this level of detail. However, the distinction may still be useful in
describing an effective planning strategy, as in Fig. 16.4, where there are
separate steps ...

Model-Based Reasoning

Science, Technology, Values

There are several key ingredients common to the various forms of model-based reasoning considered in this book. The term ‘model’ comprises both internal and external representations. The models are intended as interpretations of target physical systems, processes, phenomena, or situations and are retrieved or constructed on the basis of potentially satisfying salient constraints of the target domain. The book’s contributors are researchers active in the area of creative reasoning in science and technology.

There are several key ingredients common to the various forms of model-based reasoning considered in this book. The term ‘model’ comprises both internal and external representations.