The answer may lie in quantifying the trade-offs that organisms face in dealing with the constraints of their environment. Societal responses to the loss of biodiversity also involve trade-offs, and the elaboration of these will be essential in developing wiser environmental ethics and policy.关键...
A damaged reputation results in stalled promotions, withheld bonuses, and the potential loss of employment. Their professional circles view them with skepticism, openly displaying contempt and spreading rumors about their lack of integrity. Many individuals caught in acts of plagiarism are left with no...
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. — Arnold J. T...
Findings demonstrate that when goals rewarded with piece-rate incentives are framed as a loss, performance increased, though cheating behavior increased as well.Joshua A. NagelDepartment of Psychology, Baruch College And The Graduate Center, CUNYKajal R. Patel...
Health care falls into the category of positive rights since its provision by the government requires taxation and therefore redistribution. Therefore, the ... A Bradley - 《Journal of Medical Ethics》 被引量: 11发表: 2010年 International migration and extreme health inequality: robust arguments and...
The additional loss of BOK on top of loss of BAX did, however, not provide greater protection than loss of BAX alone. This indicates that BOK has only a minor role, or none at all, in the apoptosis of lymphoid and myeloid cells. These results are consistent with the finding that BOK ...
Then there is the story of broadcaster Frank Gifford, who was caught on videotape by a supermarket tabloid, embracing a woman who is not Kathie Lee Gifford. Initial reaction was about entrapment and "press ethics," not the damage adultery causes to the wife and kids. Rushing to keep pace ...
measurements of recent changes in ice mass, that increasing meltwater from Greenland will lead to substantial slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation, and that meltwater from Antarctica will trap warm water below the sea surface, creating a positive feedback that increases Antarctic ice loss...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has no proven causal and modifiable risk factors, or effective interventions. We report a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) of genetic liability for AD in 334,968 participants of the UK Biobank study, stratified by age. We
and such coalescence-driven alterations were rooted in the changes in the diversity and composition across time. The richness of coalescent communities exhibited average declines from 16 to 65% on day 5 upon invasion. These declines imply the loss of resident taxa (below the detection limit). A...