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Property Rights and the Duty to Extend Human Life
(2011)
This article examines what the author calls the ‘argument from duty’, i.e. the argument that we should recognize private property rights in space because doing so will help us to act upon our duty to ensure the future ...
Globalization and the End of Empire
(Carolina Academic Press, 2011)
As Tony Hopkins has observed, the end of empire in Malaya (known as Malaysia from 1963) coincided with a profound change in the character of globalization and an acceleration in the process of its development. Increasing ...
Generating countable sets of surjective functions
(2011)
We prove that any countable set of surjective functions on an infinite set of cardinality ℵn with n∈N can be generated by at most n2/2+9n/2+7 surjective functions of the same set; and there exist n2/2+9n/2+7 surjective ...
Location, location, location : Collecting space and place in mobile media
(2011)
Finding our way between places, through spaces, has been documented using various techniques of mapping. Maps are often thought of as products that allow us to find our way between places. However, they have various other ...
Doctors in Dilemma
(2011)
Multi-scale Design Of An Actuator With Thermal-mechanical Energy Conversion And Coupling
(2011)
Design of a multi-scale actuator which employs Casimir effect at nano/micro scale in order to provide actuation at meso/macro scale is addressed in this paper. Application of quantum effects at nano scale is beneficial at ...
Major structures of the inner galaxy delineated by 6.7 GHz methanol masers
(2011)
We explore the longitude-velocity distribution of 6.7 GHz methanol masers in the context of the inner structure of our Galaxy. We analyze the correlation in velocities within this distribution and identify density enhancements ...
Aesthetics and kinaesthetics
(Akademie Verlag, 2011)