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  • Thumbnail for Consequentialism
    reconciliation between act consequentialism—in which the morality of an action is determined by that action's effects—and rule consequentialism—in which moral behavior...
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  • Scott v Shepherd (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    immediate, an action of trespass will lie; where it is only consequential, it must be an action on the Case. . . . The lawfulness or unlawfulness of the original...
    14 KB (2,331 words) - 17:12, 6 April 2024
  • any incidents of non-compliance. The CEAA defines Cumulative Effects Assessment as "[a]n assessment of the incremental effects of an action on the environment...
    11 KB (924 words) - 16:37, 5 April 2024
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    Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste (category Brands of toothpaste)
    milestone of technical achievement and was touted as a "miracle remedy". Consequential damage caused by ionizing radiation is mostly unknown. Only after the...
    7 KB (734 words) - 13:46, 15 September 2023
  • Consequential strangers are personal connections other than family and close friends. Also known as "peripheral" or "weak" ties, they lie in the broad...
    33 KB (4,096 words) - 20:12, 7 December 2023
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    this aspirin-triggered transition of COX-2 from cyclooxygenase to lipoxygenase activity and the consequential formation of specialized proresolving mediators...
    152 KB (16,417 words) - 06:03, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plastic pollution
    us about how much of a consequential change plastic pollution has made on the ocean and even the coasts. In January 2022 a group of scientists defined...
    185 KB (19,745 words) - 00:03, 31 July 2024
  • Influential normative theories are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. According to consequentialists, an act is right if it leads to the best...
    211 KB (20,316 words) - 07:26, 4 August 2024
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    until 3 years of age. It is hypothesized that exposure to these toxins during this period could have consequential effects, as the epithelium of the lungs...
    191 KB (19,706 words) - 01:09, 7 August 2024
  • normally, produce certain consequential effects upon the feelings, thoughts, or actions of the audience, or of the speaker, or of other persons: and it may...
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  • Thumbnail for Dormancy
    through predictive or consequential means. Predictive dormancy occurs when an organism enters a dormant phase before the onset of adverse conditions. For...
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  • states that the consequences of any action are the only standard of right and wrong. Unlike other forms of consequentialism, such as egoism and altruism...
    137 KB (18,837 words) - 18:24, 7 August 2024
  • visual effects, action sequences, acting, and thematic elements. The film earned $746 million worldwide, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2014...
    140 KB (13,589 words) - 11:40, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Principle of double effect
    in his work Summa Theologica. This set of criteria states that, if an action has foreseeable harmful effects that are practically inseparable from the...
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  • Thumbnail for Unintended consequences
    unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen. The term was popularized...
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    leaves (especially for cooling effects); broad estimates aside, consequential margins vary considerably based on details of local geography and horticultural...
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  • Thumbnail for Virtue ethics
    approaches in ethics, consequentialism and deontology, which make the goodness of outcomes of an action (consequentialism) and the concept of moral duty (deontology)...
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  • Thumbnail for Environmental impact of wind power
    Pehnt, Martin; Oeser, Michael; Swider, Derk J. (2008). "Consequential environmental system analysis of expected offshore wind electricity production in Germany"...
    111 KB (11,506 words) - 03:33, 31 July 2024
  • blame or praise for an action or its consequences, even if it is clear that said agent did not have full control over either the action or its consequences...
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    cocaine's effects, based on the actions of systemic or intra-NAc administration of HDAC inhibitors. ... Genetic or pharmacological blockade of G9a in the...
    266 KB (31,201 words) - 17:38, 31 July 2024
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