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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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Breadboard RL10-2B low-thrust operating mode (second iteration) test report [PDF]
Cryogenic rocket engines requiring a cooling process to thermally condition the engine to operating temperature can be made more efficient if cooling propellants can be burned. Tank head idle and pumped idle modes can be used to burn propellants employed
Kaldor, Raymond B. +2 more
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Physiological Basis of Sex Differences in Human Performance and Exercise‐Associated Pathology
Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The presence of sex differences in human physical performance is well‐established and shaped by distinct endocrine, anatomical and physiological mechanisms. Despite sustained advances, our understanding of how inherent biological factors drive variations in exercise capacity and related pathologies is still developing.
David A. Holdsworth +7 more
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STS-42 Space Shuttle mission report [PDF]
The STS-42 Space Shuttle Program Mission Report contains a summary of the vehicle subsystem operations during the forty-fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Program and the fourteenth flight of the Orbiter vehicle Discovery (OV-103).
Fricke, Robert W.
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fifty years after the formation of England's child protection system, the country continues to reel from new instances of high‐profile child death tragedies where children have been harmed despite practitioners complying with the processes and procedures designed to protect them.
Ciarán Murphy, Michael Murphy
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The pressurized lunar rover (PLR) consists of a 7 m long, 3 m diameter cylindrical main vehicle and a trailer which houses the power and heat rejection systems.
Creel, Kenneth +4 more
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Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract While semi‐analytical boundary handling techniques have proven effective for modeling particle‐based fluid‐solid interactions, they can become unstable when applied to mesh boundaries undergoing dynamic motion or featuring complex, sharp geometries.
Junyuan Liu +5 more
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Advanced stratified charge rotary aircraft engine design study [PDF]
A technology base of new developments which offered potential benefits to a general aviation engine was compiled and ranked. Using design approaches selected from the ranked list, conceptual design studies were performed of an advanced and a highly ...
Badgley, P. +9 more
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The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya +2 more
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Assessment of a human computer interface prototyping environment [PDF]
A Human Computer Interface (HCI) prototyping environment with embedded evaluation capability has been successfully assessed which will be valuable in developing and refining HCI standards and evaluating program/project interface development, especially ...
Moore, Loretta A.
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