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Multi-messenger dynamic imaging of laser-driven shocks in water using a plasma wakefield accelerator. [PDF]

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Balcazar MD   +31 more
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The expanding circle

2023
Abstract Only from the 18th century was the idea of fair play applied to the duties of decency which powerful people owed to others, an aspect of the humanitarian revolution, the revulsion against cruelty which became the guiding principle of the Enlightenment. Sociobiological theory helps explain how empathy can spread outwards from kin
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Ever-Expanding Circles

2020
Chapter 2 looks at the development of algorithms for estimating the value of Pi and analysing waveforms. Early estimates for Pi – the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter – were produced in Babylonia. The ancient Greek mathematian, Archimedes, produced improved estimates by means of a clever algorithm which used polygons to approximate the
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Expanding the Moral Circle

2019
Relational inequality theory (RIT) is summarized, and its implications for social science practice, data collection, and causal attributions are outlined. To advance equality and justice agendas RIT also implies a series of global goals including moving from tribalism to universalism, from hierarchy to citizenship rights, and from markets to human ...
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey   +1 more
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The Expanding Circle

2011
Preface to the 2011 Edition xi Preface xv 1 The Origins of Altruism 3 2 The Biological Basis of Ethics 23 3 From Evolution to Ethics? 54 4 Reason 87 5 Reason and Genes 125 6 A New Understanding of Ethics 148 Notes on Sources 175 Afterword to the 2011 Edition 187 Index ...
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Bioethics Education Expanding the Circle of Participants

The Hastings Center Report, 1993
Bioethics education now takes place outside universities as well as within them. How should clinicians, ethics committee members, and policymakers be taught the ethics they need, and how may their progress best be evaluated?
B C, Thornton, D, Callahan, J L, Nelson
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