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The Social Responsibility of a Social Network

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
You may have participated in a published research study without even knowing it. In 2012, Facebook ran an experiment on almost 700,000 users wherein their emotions were manipulated without the participants knowing they enrolled in the study. After the paper was published, many users inquired as to when they gave consent to participate in the study ...
openaire   +3 more sources

A Systemic Reflection On Why Biology Is Best : E(s) ∞$$ \infty $$ mc2 Sentience, Consciousness and Transcendance?

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of the Major Economic Systems in the aftermath of the Great Recession [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper compares the fundamental postulates of major economic systems i.e. Capitalism, Socialism, Mixed economy (a hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism) and the Islamic economic system.
Shaikh, Salman
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Not Making A Virtue Of A Necessity: Nancy Fraser On 'PostSocialist' Politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
A new politics is growing in influence and power across the industrialised world. Active but decentred, rebellious but non-programmatic, influential but not state-centred, this new politics is redefining radicalism.
Alldred, P
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
wiley   +1 more source

From Marx to Bismarck: The Socialism after socialism

open access: yesSfera Politicii, 2011
This article argues, drawing on some of the current Constitutional Economy literature, that although in theory the Socialism as such were discredited almost everywhere in the world, in public attitudes, in academia and in political practices some ...
Cristian-Ion Popa
doaj  

The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the intrinsic value of life in the context of synthetic biology

open access: yesFrontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
The ongoing advancements in synthetic biology, employing either “bottom-up” or “top-down” approaches to construct synthetic life, are generating significant interest.
Yi Zhang, Yuling Chen, Bohua Liao
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