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The value of life’s diversity [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 RODRIGO F. RAMOS +4 more
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European Review, 1999 A medical view on ‘the value of life’ can be inferred from medical accounts of the quality of life: a life has value if it embodies certain qualities. Scales have been developed to quantify quality of life. While the term ‘quality of life’ is used frequently in everyday discourse, perceptions of what it might actually mean differ greatly and are often ...
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FINITE LIFE EXPECTANCY AND THE AGE-DEPENDENT VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE [PDF]
In this short paper, we investigate the behavior of the age-dependent value of a statistical life (VSL) within a lifecycle framework with a finite maximal possible lifespan.
Guang-Zhen Sun, Yew-Kwang Ng
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Use Value, Life Value, and the Future of Socialism [PDF]
, 2011 The paper argues that the future of socialism depends upon the category of use value being grounded in a wider and deeper conception of life value. Only as such can it serve as the regulating principle of a future democratic socialist society. Life value
Noonan, Jeff
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects [PDF]
Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety.
Ashenfelter, Orley
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praxeology of the value of life. A critique of Rothbard’s argument
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w NauceThe present paper aims to study the issue of the value of life in Murray N. Rothbard’s work, and to examine his argument for the contention that “life should be an objective ultimate value” and that “the preservation and furtherance of one’s life takes ...
Paweł Nowakowski
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The national budget affects life and death via its allocations in areas such as traffic safety, flood control, public health and the like. When the cost-effectiveness of an intervention is evaluated, common effect measures are the number of lives ...
Thomas Cool
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Life without value? Voices of embryo donors for hESC research in China [PDF]
, 2009 Technoscientifi c projects feature high on the Chinese government’s agenda. The decoding of the rice, chicken and most recently panda genomes have caught the attention of the media and the masses.
Rosemann, Achim
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