Bisphenols and Male Reproductive Health

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a synthetic compound for hardening and clearing polycarbonate plastics. BPA is mainly classified as an estrogen-like endocrine-disrupting chemical. In the last decade, attention has arisen in scientific communities that it is not safe to use this chemical in mainly polycarbonate plastics. Exposure to BPA starts in prenatal period, which is the critical period for its toxic …

Bisociative Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to Concept, Algorithms, Tool…

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Pattern Recognition; Computer Communication Networks

Chapter 10 Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources

In the response to this pandemic, two vital, but controversial ethical questions are we should allocate ventilators to patients with severe respiratory failure, and how we should distribute vaccines to people at risk of contracting coronavirus. There There are opposing ethical views about how to prioritise, and countries have taken different different differentdifferentapproaches. There There i…

Chapter 36 ‘Digitising The Mental Health Act’ Are we facing the app-ific…

Socio-technical systems such as video conferencing, digital care work platforms, and electronic health records are taking an increasing role in mental health-related law, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on these experiments can help navigate an increasingly digital future for mental health services and the laws that govern them. This chapter looks to England and Wales, wher…

Chapter 10 Places of Belonging, Places of Detachment

Chapter 10 of this ePDF is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond. Expert authors investigate different dimensions of spatiality including citizenship, …

Chapter 36 Current States, Challenges, and Opportunities of the Intelligent T…

This chapter provides an overview of ITS-related research undertaken in Asian developing countries. The chapter begins with a brief overview of the development and nature of ITSs. It then outlines the methods for selecting and analyzing the literature used for the study, describing the research foci of these studies and highlighting the findings in relation to the effectiveness of ITSs develope…

Chapter 10 Performing Scots- European heritage, ‘For A’ That!’

This chapter focuses on the Scots- speaking community and, in particular, on its use of the Scots language as a means to assert political diff erence in the form of a ‘welcoming, inclusive civic nationalism’ (McFadyen 2018 ).

Chapter 35: Power and inequalities: lifting the veil of ignorance in AI ethics

This chapter argues that AI ethics needs to engage with structures of power and inequalities. It draws lessons learned from critiques AI ethics has received of ineffectiveness and highlights that a key issue is the way mainstream ethics tends to systematically neglect power relations and structures of inequalities. The chapter then argues for a situated ethics. It points to the need to implemen…

Chapter 10 Pathogen and Toxin Entry - How Pathogens and Toxins Induce and Har…

Humans have been exposed to a plethora of pathogens (bacteria, viruses) ever since. Infectious diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. For example, in 2011, 1.34 million people died of tuberculosis, which is caused by an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Even more died of an infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV; 1.78 million) or lower respiratory tract i…

Chapter 35 The extraterritorial application of international human rights law…

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