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Development and Introduction of the Risk-Sentience Auxiliary Framework (RSAF) as an Enabler to the ISO 31000 and ISO 31010 for High-Risk Environments

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2018
The aim of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a new auxiliary enterprise risk management framework and process to serve as an enabler to the global ISO 31000 risk framework and ISO 31010 processes.
Jerry Selvaseelan
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How an Advanced Neurocognitive Human Trait for Religious Capacity Fails to Form

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2019
The authors present an evolutionary model for the biological emergence of religious capacity as an advanced neurocognitive trait. Using their model for the stages leading to the evolutionary emergence of religious capacity in Homo sapiens, they analyze ...
Rappaport Margaret Boone   +1 more
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"What is my purpose?" Artificial Sentience Having an Existential Crisis in Rick and Morty [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2021
The American television show Rick and Morty, an animated science fiction sitcom, critiques speciesism in the context of bleak existentialist philosophy.
Alexander Maxwell
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Are Some Animals Also Moral Agents? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Animal rights philosophers have traditionally accepted the claim that human beings are unique, but rejected the claim that our uniqueness justifies denying animals moral rights.
Johannsen, Kyle
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Toward an Etiology of Spaceflight Neuroplastic Syndrome: Evolutionary Science Leads to New Hypotheses and Program Priorities

open access: yesNeuroSci, 2023
Evolutionary theory is applied to recent neuroscientific findings on factors associated with risk-and-reward systems, and consequently, aspects of human decision making in spaceflight.
Margaret Boone Rappaport   +1 more
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Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Decision-Making in Space

open access: yesNeuroSci, 2022
This is an exploratory review of two very recent, intersecting segments of space science: neuroplasticity in space, and decision-making in space. The high level of neuroplasticity in humans leads to unfortunate neurological and physical deconditioning ...
Margaret Boone Rappaport   +1 more
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Demographics Regarding Belief in Non-Human Animal Sentience and Emotional Empathy with Animals: A Pilot Study among Attendees of an Animal Welfare Symposium

open access: yesAnimals, 2018
Attitudes to animals are linked to beliefs about their ability to experience pain and suffering, their cognition, and their sentience. Education and awareness-raising play a pivotal role in increasing society’s consideration of non-human animal ...
Amelia Cornish   +3 more
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Putting a number on the harm of death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Donors to global health programs and policymakers within national health systems have to make difficult decisions about how to allocate scarce health care resources. Principled ways to make these decisions all make some use of summary measures of health,
Millum, Joseph
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Humans are superior — by human standards [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Chapman & Huffman argue that humans are neither unique nor superior to other animals. I believe they are right in claiming that we are no more unique than any other species, but wrong in assuming that this means we cannot be ranked as superior.
Monsó, Susana
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Chiens sentients : du langage émotif au discours critique

open access: yesItinéraires, 2020
If sentience refers to consciousness, to the ability to be affected by various experiences or multiple perceptions of the surrounding universe, to the reaction to a given stimulus and to physical and psychological sensations, dogs have a special place ...
Maria do Rosário Girão Ribeiro Dos Santos
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