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Adam Smith’s Bourgeois Virtues in Competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Whether or not capitalism is compatible with ethics is a long standing dispute. We take up an approach to virtue ethics inspired by Adam Smith and consider how market competition influences the virtues most associated with modern commercial society.
Graafland, Johan, Wells, Thomas
core   +1 more source

Neuid: A Novel Neuron‐Enriched LncRNA that Connects Epigenetic Gene Silencing to Alzheimer's Disease

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasing evidence that non‐coding RNAs can become deregulated during pathogenesis is dramatically expanding the space for drug discovery beyond the protein‐coding genome. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as key regulators of cellular function, yet most remain uncharacterized.
Ranjit Pradhan   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wady środowiskowe jako etyczne i antropologiczne źródła kryzysu środowiskowego

open access: yesStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2014
The root of the environmental crisis is not only the failure to recognize the intrinsic value of the non-human world, but it can also be perceived as a failure in moral excellence and in the cultivation of virtue.
Dominika Dzwonkowska
doaj   +1 more source

Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility: Military Work and Peacebuilding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The paper considers a number of important questions related to the involvement of engineers in peacebuilding and military work, including the preference of many countries for high tech weapons based security over peacebuilding, whether and in what ...
Hersh, Marion
core   +1 more source

An Artificial Antibody‐Based Toolbox Accelerates Validation of Hidden Microproteins Encoded by the Dark Genome

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Microproteins are hidden treasures encoded by the “dark proteome” but remain largely underexplored due to the lack of highly efficient tools. We developed a molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)‐based toolbox (CLAIMID) to achieve accelerated and ultrasensitive microproteins validation at multiple biological scales (single living cells, cell populations,
Hui He   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Computer Simulations of Virtue Ethics

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2019
This article presents two approaches for computer simulations of virtue ethics in the context of agent-based modeling, a simple way and a complex way.
Lasquety-Reyes Jeremiah A.
doaj   +1 more source

An Ethical Basis for Relationship Marketing: A Virtue Ethics Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an ethical foundation for relationship marketing using a virtue ethics approach. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a conceptual one providing a background on relationship marketing from both ...
Laczniak, Gene R.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Hypofractionated Radiotherapy Induces ISG15+MHC‐I+ Neutrophils to Augment Anti‐Tumor Immunity and Prime Immune Checkpoint Blockade Responses in Rectal Cancer

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our previous clinical trials had demonstrated that neoadjuvant hypofractionated radiotherapy (HFRT) combined with immunotherapy yields promising clinical outcomes in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). However, this combined modality benefits only a subset of patients, highlighting the need to uncover the mechanisms underlying how ...
Lichao Liu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Virtue and vice in environmental discourse

open access: yesStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2013
For effective environmental protection, the necessary tools are not only the external ones in the form of commands, and legal or economic instruments.
Dominika Dzwonkowska
doaj   +1 more source

Philosophical Legal Ethics: An Affectionate History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The modern subject of theoretical legal ethics began in the 1970s. This brief history distinguishes two waves of theoretical writing on legal ethics.
Luban, David, Wendel, W. Bradley
core   +2 more sources

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