Neoliberalising bioethics: Bias, enhancement and economistic ethics [PDF]
, 2008 In bioethics there is an ongoing debate about the ethical case for human enhancement through new biomedical technologies. In this debate there are both supporters and opponents of human enhancement technologies such as genetic improvements of cognitive ...
Birch, Kean
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Evolving temporal association rules with genetic algorithms [PDF]
, 2010 A novel framework for mining temporal association rules by discovering itemsets with a genetic algorithm is introduced. Metaheuristics have been applied to association rule mining, we show the efficacy of extending this to another variant - temporal ...
A. Ghandar +11 more
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An immune system based genetic algorithm using permutation-based dualism for dynamic traveling salesman problems [PDF]
, 2009 Copyright @ Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.In recent years, optimization in dynamic environments has attracted a growing interest from the genetic algorithm community due to the importance and practicability in real world applications. This paper
C. Li +7 more
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Potato R1 resistance gene confers resistance against Phytophthora infestans in transgenic tomato plants [PDF]
, 2010 Tomato is challenged by several pathogens which cause loss of production. One such pathogen is the oomycete Phytophthora infestans which is able to attack all the aerial parts of the plant.
Carli, P. +5 more
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Genetic learning particle swarm optimization [PDF]
, 2016 Social learning in particle swarm optimization (PSO) helps collective efficiency, whereas individual reproduction in genetic algorithm (GA) facilitates global effectiveness.
Chung, Henry Shu-Hung +6 more
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Habermas, Human Agency, and Human Genetic Enhancement: The Grown, the Made, and Responsibility for Actions [PDF]
, 2012 Recent developments in genomic science hold out the tantalizing prospect of soon being able to treat and prevent a wide variety of medical conditions through gene therapy. In time, it may be possible to use similar techniques not simply to combat disease
Habermas +4 more
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Tumors in von Hippel–Lindau Syndrome: From Head to Toe—Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review [PDF]
, 2018 Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome (VHL) is an autosomal-dominant hereditary tumor disease that arises owing to germline mutations in the VHL gene, located on the short arm of chromosome 3.
Bhalla, Sanjeev +6 more
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Procreative Beneficence and Genetic Enhancement [PDF]
, 2018 Imagine a world where everyone is healthy, intelligent, long living and happy. Intuitively this seems wonderful albeit unrealistic. However, recent scientic breakthroughs in genetic engineering, namely CRISPR/Cas bring the question into public discourse,
Veit, Walter
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Should Parents Genetically Engineer their Children? [PDF]
, 2019 Imagine a world where everyone is healthy, intelligent, long living and happy. Intuitively this seems wonderful, albeit unrealistic. However, recent scientific developments in genetic engineering, namely CRISPR/Cas bring the question into public ...
Veit, Walter
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Enhanced entrainability of genetic oscillators by period mismatch
, 2013 Biological oscillators coordinate individual cellular components so that they function coherently and collectively. They are typically composed of multiple feedback loops, and period mismatch is unavoidable in biological implementations.
Hafner M +6 more
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