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A Tale of Appendages: Investigating Limb and Tail Variation in Salamanders

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We analyzed limb and tail proportions in 44% of known salamander species using a phylogenetic comparative approach. Our results revealed significant variation among families and ecological groups, with aquatic species showing longer limbs and basal lineages having shorter tails.
Giacomo Rosa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reply to Budd

open access: yesEstetika, 2015
Charles Nussbaum’s reply to Malcom Budd’s review essay on Nussbaum’s book, The Musical Representation (published in Estetika 1/2015).
Charles Nussbaum
doaj   +1 more source

Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper will deal with intergenerational justice, focusing on the relationship between coexisting generations. The first section will be reserved for some conceptual clarifications on the concept of justice, on the distinction between age groups and birth cohorts, and on the specificity of age as a category for apportioning benefits and ...
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
wiley   +1 more source

Capabilities Approach to Working From Home: Is It the Path to Work Engagement and Work‐Life Balance?

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of the capabilities approach (as an ethical framework in management) on the well‐being of workers in the context of working from home. A capabilities approach was used to examine the relationship between work engagement and work‐life balance.
João J. Ferreira   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of Hilbert nonexpansive maps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In his work on the foundations of geometry, Hilbert observed that a formula which appeared in works by Beltrami, Cayley, and Klein, gives rise to a complete metric on any bounded convex domain. Some decades later, Garrett Birkhoff and Hans Samelson noted
Karlsson, Anders
core   +1 more source

Virtuous Organizations in the Age of AI: Relational Goods and Human Flourishing

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The integration of AI‐based systems in everyday work has given rise to augmented organizations, transforming traditional work paradigms and prompting new research questions concerning augmented work processes and their related ethical issues. Drawing upon the practice‐institution framework proposed by Alasdair MacIntyre, integrated with Donati'
Francesco Vincenzo Giarmoleo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergence analysis of estimated parameters for parametric nonlinear strict feedback system with unknown control direction

open access: yesNonlinear Analysis, 2015
In this paper, the adaptive control and parameters identification problems are investigated for a class of linearly parametric strict feedback system with unknown control direction.
Jun Min Li, Chao He
doaj   +1 more source

Self‐Giving and Reflections on Life Extension: How Love Might Shape the Choice of Whether to Live Past a Natural Human Lifespan

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Andrew Moeller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitizing Dignity: Analyzing Digital Twins Through the Lens of Multidimensional Human Dignity

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In precision medicine, digital twins—virtual models of patients created using personalized data and advanced machine learning—are potentially changing healthcare by predicting health outcomes and guiding medical decisions. However, their use raises complex ethical questions, particularly concerning their relationship to human dignity. Patients
Andrew J. Barnhart
wiley   +1 more source

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