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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Rifkin"”.
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Xoc o aliança de civilitzacions
… per les teories de Samuel P. Huntington i Jeremy Rifkin
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Across the great divide : chimeras and species boundaries
… be made? Activists Stuart Newman and Jeremy Rifkin have filed a patent application for human-animal chimeras, such as the humanzee, to protest patents on all life forms. Newman and Rifkin believe chimeras are emblematic of abuses of biotechnology and are on a slippery slope to human cloning …
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Nail Polish and Polos: The Workplace Experiences of Out Femme and Butch Lesbians
… subordinate behaviors (Crawley 2001; Moore 2006; Rifkin 2008). Femme lesbians are often able to pass as heterosexual. Conversely, butch lesbians may not be able to pass. Butch lesbians often present themselves as stereotypically lesbian (i.e., wear men’s clothing, a short haircut and no face …
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Implementing the Third Industrial Revolution : a case study of a French example
… Plan developed in collaboration with Jeremy Rifkin in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region in France. This region has decided to implement an energy transition plan for some obvious environmental motivations, but mostly for economic and employment-related ones. The thesis explains and reviews the …
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An evaluation of biotechnological enhancement in the light of an African perspective of personhood : the metaphysical aspects of botho and human nature
… transhumanism, for example, Leon Kass, Jeremy Rifkin, Francis Fukuyama, and Bill McKibben insist that there are certain fundamental elements of personhood or humanity that should not be tampered with. This research evaluates biotechnological enhancement in the light of the Botho philosophy in …
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Politically Corrected Science: The Early Negotiation of U.S. Agricultural Biotechnology Policy
… competitiveness. At the same time, Jeremy Rifkin, a radical activist representing a green world view, used the controversy to agitate for social and economic reform. Meanwhile, a group of Congressional aides who called themselves the "Cloneheads" used the debate to fight for more public …
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Prenatal Attachment During Antepartum Hospitalization: Associations with Pregnancy Planning, Partner Relationship, and Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
Little is known about factors that may interfere with a woman's ability to attach to her fetus in the context of antepartum hospitalization. This study investigated the effects of pregnancy planning, considering termination, and the quality of a romantic relationship on maternal-fetal attachment in …
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The effect of acetoacetate, organosulfur compounds and hormones on the activity of the liver mitochondria
The mitochondrial utilization of a-ketoglutaric and pyruvic acids have been found to be depressed in guinea pig and bovine ketosis. Addition of sodium acetoacetate to the reaction medium resulted in depressed oxidation of pyruvate and 1-ketoglutarate of isolated normal rat liver mitochondria.
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Training clinic health committees: a vehicle for improving community participation in health
… as planning, consultation and advise [Arnstein, Rifkin and Loewenson] in the realisation of right to health. It is recommended for wider community participation that trainings of such magnitude are conducted together with facility managers/staff.
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… in Black and Indigenous studies, such as Mark Rifkin, Tiffany Lethabo King, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robyn Maynard, and Jodi Byrd, this dissertation constructs a theory of intimacy and kinship in the context of non-belonging, settler colonialism and impossible citizenship. Through turning …
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Everything old is new again : a fresh look at historical approaches in machine learning
This thesis shows that several old, somewhat discredited machine learning techniques are still valuable in the solution of modern, large-scale machine learning problems. We begin by considering Tikhonov regularization, a broad framework of schemes for binary classification. Tikhonov regularization …