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Life, Love and Children

A Practical Introduction to Bioscience Ethics and Bioethics

By: Irina Pollard

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Life, Love and Children

A Practical Introduction to Bioscience Ethics and Bioethics

By: Irina Pollard

Discussion of bioscience ethics requires understanding of the science that underpins biological systems impinging on our lives. Unencumbered by the formal structure of ethics, bioethics presents a forum for discussion of practical matters of individual and collective concern. This comprehensive text is a guide to the essentials of bioscience ethics and an interface between applied science and applied bioethics. Early chapters embrace topics affecting human reproduction – substance abuse and parenthood, aging gametes and congenital malformations, child abuse and its biological consequences. Intermediate chapters deal with end-of-life care and euthanasia, human fertility, assisted reproductive technologies, genetic engineering, and cloning. Remaining chapters challenge human-dominated ecosystems. Population growth, economic activity, and warfare – with its environmental consequences – are reviewed. A background section describes the evolution of ethical consciousness, explores the future, and proposes that the reworking of ethical boundaries can enhance mature decision-making in harmony with changing technology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461502780

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A Guide to Reproduction

Social Issues and Human Concerns

By: Irina Pollard

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A Guide to Reproduction

Social Issues and Human Concerns

By: Irina Pollard

The purpose of this comprehensive text is to increase awareness of human reproduction and its consequences. The central theme links reproductive capacity, the social consequences of the multiple stresses this places on the environment and the ways this relates back to the reproductive health of humans and other animals. In the first section, the biology of human reproduction is discussed, including such topics as the treatment and causes of infertility, growth and maturation, parental behaviour and neonate biology. The effects of procreational biology on the foundation of human social structure are also examined. The second part deals with reproduction as it relates to health and social issues such as stress, fertility control, AIDS, teratogens and errors of sexual differentiation. It is an invaluable resource for all those wishing to update their knowledge of human reproductive biology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521429250

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9780521429252

Bioscience Ethics

By: Irina Pollard

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Bioscience Ethics

By: Irina Pollard

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319

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Cambridge University Press

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0521768284

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The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence

The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem

By: Irina Chernetsky

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The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence

The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem

By: Irina Chernetsky

In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian antiquity – Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. The architectural image of an ideal Florence was discussed in chronicles and histories, poetry and prose, and treatises on art and religious sermons. It was also portrayed in paintings, sculpture, and sketches, as well as encoded in buildings erected during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Over time, the concept of an ideal Florence became inseparable from the real city, in both its social and architectural structures. Chernetsky demonstrates how the Renaissance notion of genealogy was applied to Florence, which was considered to be part of a family of illustrious cities of both the past and present. She also explores the concept of the ideal city in its intellectual, political, and aesthetic contexts, while offering new insights into the experience of urban space.

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479

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Cambridge University Press

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1009041282

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9781009041287

Finite-State Computational Morphology

An Analyzer and Generator for Georgian

By: Irina Lobzhanidze

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Finite-State Computational Morphology

An Analyzer and Generator for Georgian

By: Irina Lobzhanidze

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on the finite-state morphology of Georgian and enables the reader to enter quickly into Georgian morphosyntax and its computational processing. It combines linguistic analysis with application of finite-state technology to processing of the language. The book opens with the author’s synoptic overview of the main lines of research, covers the properties of the word and its components, then moves up to the description of Georgian morphosyntax and the morphological analyzer and generator of Georgian.The book comprises three chapters and accompanying appendices. The aim of the first chapter is to describe the morphosyntactic structure of Georgian, focusing on differences between Old and Modern Georgian. The second chapter focuses on the application of finite-state technology to the processing of Georgian and on the compilation of a tokenizer, a morphological analyzer and a generator for Georgian. The third chapter discusses the testing and evaluation of the analyzer’s output and the compilation of the Georgian Language Corpus (GLC), which is now accessible online and freely available to the research community.Since the development of the analyzer, the field of computational linguistics has advanced in several ways, but the majority of new approaches to language processing has not been tested on Georgian. So, the organization of the book makes it easier to handle new developments from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint.The book includes a detailed index and references as well as the full list of morphosyntactic tags. It will be of interest and practical use to a wide range of linguists and advanced students interested in Georgian morphosyntax generally as well as to researchers working in the field of computational linguistics and focusing on how languages with complicated morphosyntax can be handled through finite-state approaches.

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229

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Springer Nature

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303090248X

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9783030902483

The Challenge of Revolution

Contemporary Russia in Historical Perspective

By: Vladimir Mau,Irina Starodubrovskaia

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The Challenge of Revolution

Contemporary Russia in Historical Perspective

By: Vladimir Mau,Irina Starodubrovskaia

This volume provides an challenging and controversial explanation of the recent events in Russia. It examines the causes, processes, and consequences of Russia's recent political development. Drawing on, and criticizing the existing literature, the book also shows how the recent Russian experience casts light on general theories of revolution and comparative political developments. The transformation in Russia is usually compared with transformations in other post-communist countries. The authors argue that the Russian transformation should be explained in the logic of the great revolutions of the past such as the English Civil War, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution. The difficulties and inconsistency of Russian reforms are usually explained as a result of mistakes made by reformers. This book argues, however, that these problems should be considered as a natural consequence of the 'weak state'. In revolution the weakness of state power is inevitable (resulting from social fragmentation, property rights transformation, changes in the interests of different social groups). Hence, the authors argue that most of the transitional problems in Russia were unavoidable. The authors go on to argue that revolutions are usually considered as rapid change made through violence. However, the spontaneous character of change in the situation of a weak state is a much more important feature of any revolution than violence. The book contains unique interviews with four leaders of the Russian transformation - Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexander Yakovlev, Yegor Gaidar, and Gennadii Burbulis - as well as the personal experience of the authors, who were deeply involved in the practical process of Russian transformation.

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386

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OUP Oxford

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019160822X

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9780191608223

Mixed Categories

The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification

By: Irina Nikolaeva,Andrew Spencer

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The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification

By: Irina Nikolaeva,Andrew Spencer

Uses an explicit formal framework to explore and model cross-linguistic variation, in constructions where a noun modifies another noun.

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421

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Cambridge University Press

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1108415512

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Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films

By: Valeri P. Tolstoy,Irina Chernyshova,Valeri A. Skryshevsky

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Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films

By: Valeri P. Tolstoy,Irina Chernyshova,Valeri A. Skryshevsky

Because of the rapid increase in commercially available Fourier transform infrared spectrometers and computers over the past ten years, it has now become feasible to use IR spectrometry to characterize very thin films at extended interfaces. At the same time, interest in thin films has grown tremendously because of applications in microelectronics, sensors, catalysis, and nanotechnology. The Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films provides a practical guide to experimental methods, up-to-date theory, and considerable reference data, critical for scientists who want to measure and interpret IR spectra of ultrathin films. This authoritative volume also: Offers information needed to effectively apply IR spectroscopy to the analysis and evaluation of thin and ultrathin films on flat and rough surfaces and on powders at solid-gaseous, solid-liquid, liquid-gaseous, liquid-liquid, and solid-solid interfaces. * Provides full discussion of theory underlying techniques * Describes experimental methods in detail, including optimum conditions for recording spectra and the interpretation of spectra * Gives detailed information on equipment, accessories, and techniques * Provides IR spectroscopic data tables as appendixes, including the first compilation of published data on longitudinal frequencies of different substances * Covers new approaches, such as Surface Enhanced IR spectroscopy (SEIR), time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy, high-resolution microspectroscopy and using synchotron radiation

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John Wiley & Sons

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047135404X

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9780471354048

Life, Love and Children

A Practical Introduction to Bioscience Ethics and Bioethics

By: Irina Pollard

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A Practical Introduction to Bioscience Ethics and Bioethics

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A Guide to Reproduction

Social Issues and Human Concerns

By: Irina Pollard

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Social Issues and Human Concerns

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Bioscience Ethics Education Curriculum for Pre-Schoolers to Elementary Age Children

By: Irina Pollard,Amara Zintgraff

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Bioscience Ethics Education Curriculum for Pre-Schoolers to Elementary Age Children

By: Irina Pollard,Amara Zintgraff

A resource for teachers which provides activities for students. Its five learning objectives are 1. To stimulate scientific imagination and resourcefulness; 2. To aid young children to spot ethical issues; 3. To assist in communicating key bioscience ethical thoughts and perceptions; 4. To stimulate a sense of identity and connection; 5. Enable children to recognise and respond to ethical variances and discrepencies.

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Life, Love and Children

Life, Love and Children

A Guide to Reproduction

A Guide to Reproduction

Bioscience Ethics

Bioscience Ethics

The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence

The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence

Finite-State Computational Morphology

Finite-State Computational Morphology

The Challenge of Revolution

The Challenge of Revolution

Mixed Categories

Mixed Categories

Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films

Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films

Life, Love and Children

Life, Love and Children

A Guide to Reproduction

A Guide to Reproduction

Bioscience Ethics Education Curriculum for Pre-Schoolers to Elementary Age Children

Bioscience Ethics Education Curriculum for Pre-Schoolers to Elementary Age Children

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