In this article I discuss and analyse what is referred to as the standard account of discrimination as measured against a number of requirements any viable account of discrimination should satisfy. I also discuss how the standard account fails to explain how differential treatment based on genetic factors can be regarded as discriminatory.

In Russia, as the confrontation over the constitutional distribution of authority raged, Boris Yeltsin's economic program regularly wended its way in and out of the Constitutional Court until Yeltsin finally suspended that court in the aftermath of his clash with the hard-line parliament. In Europe, French and German legislators and executives now routinely alter desired policies in response to or

Background: Assessment of DNA profile quality is vital in forensic DNA analysis, both in order to determine the evidentiary value of DNA results and to compare the performance of different DNA analysis protocols. Generally the quality assessment is performed through manual examination of the DNA profiles based on empirical knowledge, or by comparing the intensities (allelic peak heights) of the ca

There are many possible definitions of “technology” and I will discuss some of these in this book. However, in this introduction let me use a definition of Svante Lindqvist who defines technology very intuitively as “those activities, directed towards the satisfaction of human wants, which produce change in the material world.” He says also “the distinction between human “wants” and more limited h

Kreativitet behandlas ur kognitiv-psykologisk synvinkel. Kapitlet beskriver kreativitetens natur och förklarar vad kreativ förmåga kan tillföra i affärssammanhang. Kapitlet fokuserar både den kreativa processen i allmänhet och förmågans speciella roll för nyföretagande. Syftet är att ge en beskrivning av kreativitet som inte bara är korrekt, utan även kan fungera som ett verktyg i entreprenörens v

Three kinds of light emission are taking place from organisms: bioluminescence in a narrow sense from some animals, dinoflagellatees, fungi and bacteria; delayed light emission from photosynthetic cells; ultraweak light emission from all kinds of cells. All these phenomena are treated in this chapter.

Denna framställnings syfte är, att med stöd av existerande kunskap söka efter ej undersökta sociala och psykologiska effekter av att bygga behovssammansatta förband över nationsgränser med interoperabilitet (IO) som mål. Detta tänks ske samtidigt som ett nätverksbaserat försvar (NBF) implementeras inom FM. Förbanden förutsätts vidare vara avsedda för strid i främmande miljöer.

Contextual Analysis through inquiries into Contextual Dependency is a way to specify and discuss more general issues of unequal distribution of power overall and the importance of gender issues as a specific example. This gives an Information Systems analyst an opportunity to ask some important questions. The sense making activities involved includes efforts to 'visualise' and communicate individu

R. Johansson. z-Transform and Digital Systems. In R. C. Dorf, Editor, The Engineering Handbook (2nd Ed.), Chapter 105. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2005.

A highly optimized Monte Carlo (MC) code package for simulating light transport is developed on the latest graphics processing unit (GPU) built for general-purpose computing from NVIDIA - the Fermi GPU. In biomedical optics, the MC method is the gold standard approach for simulating light transport in biological tissue, both due to its accuracy and its flexibility in modelling realistic, heterogen

Projective Planning explores recent trends in urban planning, asking how planning practices associated with these trends are justified and organized. The constantly changing conditions of capitalist societies require a form of urban planning that is alert and responsive to the circumstances in which it operates. This places demands on the organization of urban planning, on urban planners, and on t