...From cliché to inception: a review of Bioprinting Tyler Crossley MCB 404 Biomedical Ethics Dr. Pimentel Introduction The utilization of 3-dimmensional printers to produce functional applications by the personal and consumer sectors have been acknowledged since the development of this technology. Two categories for product applications of 3-dimmensional printing exist: products to improve individual personal life, such as hearing aids and prosthetic limbs; engineering parts for many consumer products, such as many components of engines, guns and even musical instruments. Whichever contextual application of this technology is desired and utilized, both ethical benefits and weaknesses exist. Multiple American companies including General Electric, Boeing, Nike, Honeywell and others have used this technology in manufacturing motor components, shoes, solar panels and other consumer products. Endless potential applications of 3-dimmensional printing exist for future developments. Interestingly, printing of meat for human consumption as an alternative to harvesting meat from animals is currently being researched. In 2008 PeTA offered a $1 million X-Prize style reward for the first group to synthetically develop such commercially viable meat. This is one case in which proposing ethical dilemmas exist, and the many alternative controversies this topic entails. Further bioethical dilemma’s and considerations exist and will be discussed...
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...Awareness and adoption of Robotics Education among school students 1Dr.S.Selvabaskar, 2R.Ramya Priya 1Associate professor, School of management, SASTRA University. 2Student, IIndyear MBA, SASTRA University, Thirumalaisamudram, Tanjavur, Tamilnadu, India Abstract Android Robo is a multi-disciplinary Robotics programme that has been specially tailored to teach young school students, the basics of Robotics. Basics of Robotics include Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic and Programming which encourage students to make connections across all these disciplines. The aim of this study was to find out the awareness and adoption of Robotics among school students. A questionnaire with variables enquiring about the profile, awareness about Robotics, interest to learn about Robotics in their curriculum and capacity to handle Robotics as a subject was administered to 150 respondents. Convenience sampling method was used to...
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...Informative Speech Outline General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: Create awareness among the audience Central Idea: Animal Abuse is a constantly growing issue and today I am going to provide you with some information on where it stems from and how to prevent it. Introduction I. Attention Material a. “We are coming up on our 6 month anniversary of the day we brought Lola home from Homeward Pet. She is an amazing addition to our family; I cannot imagine a better dog for us. We are so grateful for our experience with Homeward Pets, our lives are changed forever.” That is a direct quote from the Miles family, who adopted their dog from an animal shelter. b. Raise your hand if you have had either a pet dog or cat at one point in your life. c. About 62% of households in the United States has a pet, this includes 78.2 million dogs and 86.4 million cats are owned in the United States. d. Based on those statistics, think about this. According to the yearly animal abuse report, of the 1160 reported cases in 2010, 64.5% involved Dogs and 18% involved cats. II. Orienting Material e. Central Idea: Animal abuse is a constantly growing issue, and today I am going to provide you with some information on where it stems from, as well as how to prevent it. f. The slide show that I will show may be graphic, but are pictures from real life abusive households. These pictures are not meant to upset you, but to show you the effects that abuse can...
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...Should Abortion be legal? 2 Should abortion be legal? What is abortion and who does it affect? An abortion is to terminate a pregnancy by removal of the fetus . The woman is affected by it because it’s her body that this method is performed on. There are millions of abortions done every year, and 95% are done illegally in the United States of America. There are different methods a woman can do to have an abortion done. Some of the methods are taking the” Morning after Pill”. This method will make the woman have a miscarriage within 48 hours. Another method is to have a surgery to remove the baby or fetus. This method gives you up to 22 weeks to have an abortion. The first reason why women have abortions is the mother is in a life threating position. The doctors are the ones who can say if its life threating or if the mother and baby can make it together. About 90% of women who are in life threating situation do not want to live, but they want the baby to make it. The life threating situation is because if the mother can be n a suicide watch and trying to kill the baby and herself. What if the woman fell into a coma while she is pregnant? How would the baby survive, if the mother is not eating and getting the right vitamins that she need for the baby. Sometimes you have to think about the good and the bad in some situations. The second reason women have...
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...6. Explain if you or your department is facing difficulties to perform certain task weather you have the ICT Most people experience problems with machines and new ICTs are no exception. Living and working with and around machines of is not only a story of benefits, but also of problems, uncertainties, demands for change and conflicts. For example, as well as being one of the most useful and flexible devices, the personal computer is also one of the most problematic, with technical problems, continual upgrades, problematic interfaces, and demands on time and money to name a few. The computer is only one of a series of ICT products from the telephone onward that have been accompanied by a whole range of technical and non-technical problems. Many of those interviewed experienced problems adopting, using or owning ICTs. The type of problem is highly dependent on the type of technology: the PC and Internet connections giving considerable technical, learning, service, upgrade and compatability problems. Mobile phones on the other hand, while occasionally having poor infrastructure difficulties, gave problems of usage, service quality (customer care) and personal identity. It is not only technical issues that cause problems, there are many other equally important practical and social problems. Even for technical systems that are largely stable, where the technical problems have mostly disappeared from view, there still remain a host of issues1. Nearly all the technologies...
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...[pic] How EHR’s will Benefit The Medical Field [pic] Abstract EHR, known as electronic health record, refers to some systematic collection of an individual’s or a population’s electronic health information. The record is in a digital format which is theoretically sharable across various health care settings. Sometimes, this sharing can happen by way of network-connected, information systems or some other information networks. The electronic health record may include a wide range of data, like demographics, the patient’s medical history, their medication and allergies their immunization status, lab test results, vital signs, statistics like weight and age, and billing information. These systems are designed to represent accurate data capturing the patient’s state at all times. This allows the viewing of the entire patient history without tracking down the previous medical records of the patient and assisting in ensuring that the data is accurate, legible and appropriate. This reduces chances of replicating data since only one modifiable file is available, which means that the file is always up to date if it is viewed at a later date thus eliminating the issues of lost data forms or paperwork. Owing to all this information being in one single file, it’s much more effective to extract medical data for examination of possible occurrences or trends and long term health changes in any patient. Introduction As more health organizations tend to...
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...It is possible to clone mammals. Is it morally acceptable to clone a human being? Defend your answer against those who would not agree with you. By: Martin Pierce Student Number: 1057404 In cloning for medical-research purposes the development of the embryo is halted as soon as a cluster of stem cells develops. The stem cells are then harvested for research purposes. Due to the fact that no infant is born (in fact the embryo never even gets past the blastocyst stage), it is argued that this type of cloning has nothing to do with human cloning. (Hatch Backs Limited Cloning, 2002). For this reason this paper shall take the statement “to clone a human being” as meaning cloning that results in a fully formed human and not on the cloning of embryos for the purposes of research. The issues around cloning are in the main more ethical than theological and yet most of the objections to cloning come from religious sources, even if those objections are not religious in nature. The first objection is that cloning leaves God out of the process of human creation. This only makes sense though if your definition of God is of a being that plays a role in the birth of each member of our species. Even holding to this view it does not necessarily follow that cloning is comparable to playing God (Brannigan, 2001). How can science prevent a supposedly...
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...The best way to sustain your relationship is to avoid methods like blame and isolation to help deal with infertility. The diagnosis of infertility can be one of the most devastating situations a couple has to overcome. However, using the advice given in this paper, it is possible to successfully cope with infertility, and your relationship can even improve. Infertility affects many couples, therefore it is important to understand that other people know what you are going through. Social support can help couples deal with the...
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...Human Sexuality Paper HLS 301V M04 The topic for my research paper is about homosexuals having the same rights as everyone else in the world, including the right to marry, adopt and to partake in the same benefits as heterosexual couples. I am someone who has always believed that everyone should have the same rights no matter what regardless of sexuality. I have had many homosexual friends and I always sympathized with the social stigma that they would have on them, and that was back when I was I guess you could say I was straight back then. So even way before I found myself having to deal with the same dilemmas as my friends I thought that keeping simple rights from people was wrong. I guess you could say I was an advocate in the war against social stigmas, advocating for equal rights for everyone no matter what sexual orientation one is. Homosexuality has been a topic of debate for some time now. There are people that firmly believe that loving or engaging in sex with someone of the same gender is completely wrong, and some of these people base their beliefs on their religious path. Some preach that by doing so the people involved in these acts will go to hell. There are even some individuals out there that form or part of groups that protest homosexuality and same sex relationships. My question to them is simple. What would you do if it was your child? What would you do if it was you who felt like that? Would you want the same rights in your life and in your relationship...
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...Abortion is Murder Abortions, we all know what they are and we all have our own opinions on the matter. The laws regarding abortion have been debated, fought over, petitioned, and discussed, whether calmly or very heated, for years. It is a never ending war. You are either for or against this issue. For some it is a personal rights issue. For others it is a moral issue. Some see this as the woman’s right to take charge of her own body and make the decision as to what happens inside it, while others look upon abortion as an abomination and murder. Which side do you take? There is no middle ground on this. One cannot be against it for themselves, but ok with it for everyone else. What is an abortion? Abortion is defined as the deliberate induction of delivery during pregnancy before the infant has reached full term. Normally this is done within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, but can be done throughout the entire pregnancy. When did abortions truly begin? Well, a definite time frame has not been found, however there are abortions dating back as far as 1550 BC and records in China dating back to 500 BC when royal concubines were made to get them. The fight for and against abortion has been raging since about the 18th century. Christian churches allowed a woman to get an abortion as long as it was before she could feel movement. Once the 18th and 19th centuries hit the war began. In the 1800s abortions were done mainly in “back alley” practices which caused deaths and infections...
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...The need for sustaining competitive advantage while constantly creating added value is driving organizations to identify and adopt appropriate new and innovative technologies in order to endure and thrive in today’s dynamic marketplace. Of significance is Porter’s (1985) approach to value chain analysis which argues that organizations can achieve competitive advantage by effectively managing its core competencies and activities to create cost advantage and/or differentiation by leveraging Information technology (IT) as a major strategic tool. The latest revolutionary technological breakthrough is the emergence of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system which has the demonstrated ability to identify, track, trace and collect information on almost any physical object wirelessly, using electronic tags and radio waves connected to local and international telecommunications networks. RFID therefore provides at least a viable alternative to and significant advantage over the use of barcodes by making use of internet technology and thus providing unlimited opportunities for added value creation and business expansion. While, admittedly, it is no magic elixir and has serious implementation challenges, its full business benefits can be achieved once careful strategic analysis identifying the specific needs of the organization is exercised. RFID is part of the Automatic Identification (Auto-ID) technological grouping which includes barcodes and smart cards. A RFID system has three...
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...sword because in one respect it allows research to develop sophisticated diagnostic procedures, which then develop “cures” to increase longevity and quality of life. Yet, this new technology comes at the tremendous cost of conducting that developmental research. Then once this technology is available, there are costs associated with training staff to use it properly, facility upgrading and a higher demand from consumers and physicians for the utilization of the new technology (Shi & Singh, 2008). Not all technological advancements are created equal; and add a tremendous strain to health care spending. Electronic Health Records (EHR) replace the traditional paper records and help to streamline patient care by making it possible to access, share and edit patients’ records more efficiently. Widespread adoption of EHR will eventually lead to savings in health care costs. In the United States, the non-governmental and highly influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has committed to a technology-led system reform and urged “a renewed national commitment to building an information infrastructure to support health care delivery, consumer health, quality measurement and improvement, public accountability, clinical and health services research, and clinical education.” (Gunter & Terry, 2005) With that said, group practices with 50 or more physicians are more likely to use EHR. Clinical trials are another form of technological advancements in health care. They help improve medical...
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...outcomes • Increased productivity and workflow efficiency • Better information at the point of care • Improved and integrated communications • Privacy and protection of patient information The healthcare environment is one that calls for integration. Today, most hospital networks run, on average, more than 300 applications. Patient information is scattered across disparate systems in public and private healthcare entities, which makes it difficult and costly for healthcare professionals to share vital medical, clinical, and patient information. Generally, many industries have been quick to implement cloud-based solutions; the healthcare industry has been hesitant to fully adopt cloud-computing solutions. While a portion of this hesitancy stems from legitimate privacy concerns and the need to protect patients’ private health information in accordance...
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...to have their long term relationships recognized and given the same validity as those long term relationships of heterosexual couples through the societal construct of marriage. Same-sex marriage has become a huge issue for many in the United States, it is a “lightning rod” issue that seems to polarize the two sides of the argument. There does not seem to be much, if any, common ground to stand upon. A person either holds the belief, often backed by their faith, that gay marriage is unacceptable, or they discard that belief and can't conceive of why that viewpoint is in any way valid. For most people there really is no middle ground. The focus of this paper is to examine same-sex marriage through the lens of the state and federal levels of legislation and constitutional precedent. My personal interest in this subject stems from my own beliefs about homosexuality in general, and particularly the point that I would like is that I believe continuing to deny the right of a fully recognized marriage to...
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