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Biotechnology Center To our clients and friends As the shockwaves from the global financial crisis rippled across the world economy in late 2008 and 2009, they left little untouched. The reverberations leveled long-standing institutions, triggered unprecedented policy responses and revealed new risks. For the biotechnology industry, the impact of these turbulent times has deepened the divide between the sector’s haves and have-nots. Many small-cap companies are scrambling to raise capital and contain

have felt very bad,” she said. “No, it had to happen,” He washed his face and sat at the table. “When did their affair begin?” “A few months after our marriage. She must have met him somewhere. Anyway I was not meant for her.” “Then why did you marry her in the first place?’ “No choice. I joined the software industry and my parents were looking for a bride. They knew her parents well, though not her.” “And after marriage?” “You know Selvi, I don’t belong to Chennai. I come from a village. And

in them that they often blame for being unfair and responsible of theirs luggish development. On another hand developed countries are benefiting widely from the organizational regime that has been agree more than sixty years ago and that hasn’t adapt to shifts in economical and political power. We assist of what could be called a battle for global economic governance, that is one for the “overaching system which regulate human affairs on a worldwide basis”(O’Brien and Williams 2007). But we can wonder

factor. The transfer of an ultimate consumer orientation to brand positioning could change its logic: While positioning maps generally portray the position of a brand in the minds of consumers relative to its competitors, rigorously consumer-oriented positioning maps depict what consumers with preferences for a certain brand actually want – as compared to consumers with preferences for competitor brands. The construct of human values refers to people’s wants and goals in life, influencing their behaviour

rights over things. You do not sell a thing, you sell the rights to a thing. who es entitled to use such things how they are entitled such things Different property rights : personal right (not binding to C) , property right, persistent right (both binding to C). personal right : it is a right against a person. B can bind A but not C. Ex : A makes contractual promise to B to mow B's land. A then gives his mower to C as a gift. Solution : B has a personal right against A but not

1 Robotic Warfare, Human Rights & the Rhetorics of Ethical Machines Jutta Weber DRAFT to appear in: Rafael Capurro / Michael Nagenborg / Giugelmo Tamburinni (eds.): Ethics and Robotics. Deutscher Akademieverlag (in preparation) Abstract Killing with robots is no more a future scenario but became a reality in the first decade of the 21st century. The U.S. and Israel forces are using uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) in their so-called wars on terror, especially for targeted killing

Richard P. Feynman was one of this century's most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, in 1918, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a BS in 1939. He went on to Princeton and received his Ph.D. in 1942. During the war years he worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He became Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cornell University, where he worked with Hans Bethe. He all but rebuilt the theory of quantum

themes of identity and exile but in different ways and to different degrees. Nomadism is a recurring theme throughout both films and is of primary importance in pointing to the challenges facing individuals both in exile and in search of identity. Another central element in the two films which ties to problems of exile and identity is the depiction of Jews and the Diaspora of Eastern European Jews who exiled from their native countries to the west to avoid the Holocaust and the harsh treatment of Jews

outside the field would be inclined to ask and those inside should be able to answer satisfactorily. Not everyone will agree with the answers the authors provide, and in some cases, the best an author can do is offer well-grounded speculations. Nonetheless, the chapters raise questions that will lead to an improved political psychology and will generate further discussion and research in the field. The individual chapters are organized around four themes. Part I tries to define political psychology and

acquired a sizeable fame, hold down a dominant position in our daily life. Nowadays it seems impossible to open a magazine or to watch television without be flooded by news concerning the “people”. For the firms, advertisement remains the favoured method of the sales promotion. The challenge is to catch the viewer attention and make an ad more noticeable, attractive and impellent. One way to achieve this is through invoking celebrity endorsement. Mc Cracken defines celebrity-endorsement as “any