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Inclusiveness, Effectiveness and Intrusiveness: Issues in the Developing Uses of DNA Profiling in Support of Criminal Investigations (Reprint of earlier version in special issue 'Symposium on DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties' (2006)
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Williams, R., & Johnson, P. (2006). Inclusiveness, Effectiveness and Intrusiveness: Issues in the Developing Uses of DNA Profiling in Support of Criminal Investigations (Reprint of earlier version in special issue 'Symposium on DNA Fingerprinting and Civil Liberties'. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 32(2), 234-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2006.00030.x

Change and Continuity (2006)
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Pattinson, S. D., & Harpwood, V. (2006). Change and Continuity. Medical Law International, 7(3), 181-182

Human Virtues and Natural Values (2006)
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James, S. P. (2006). Human Virtues and Natural Values. Environmental Ethics, 28(4), 339-354

In several works, Holmes Rolston III has argued that a satisfactory environmental ethic cannot be built on a virtue ethical foundation. His first argument amounts to the charge that because virtue ethics is by nature 'self-centred' or egoistic it is... Read More about Human Virtues and Natural Values.

The Enjoyment of Rights and Freedoms: a New Conception of the 'Ambit' under Article 14 ECHR (2006)
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Baker, A. (2006). The Enjoyment of Rights and Freedoms: a New Conception of the 'Ambit' under Article 14 ECHR. Modern Law Review, 69(5), 714-737. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2006.00607.x

Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as applied by the UK judiciary under the Human Rights Act 1998, is in danger of becoming as 'parasitic' as it is often described. Judges have inappropriately narrowed the scope of the 'ambit' of... Read More about The Enjoyment of Rights and Freedoms: a New Conception of the 'Ambit' under Article 14 ECHR.

Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2006)
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Pranghofer, S., & Maehle, A. (2006). Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 31(3), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1179/030801806x113766

Among patients as well as doctors it is commonly held that confidentiality has been the foundation of the therapeutic relationship since the introduction of the Hippocratic oath. Nevertheless, medical confidentiality is a controversial issue, for exa... Read More about Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The inner nuclear membrane protein Emerin regulates beta-catenin activity by restricting its accumulation in the nucleus (2006)
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Markiewicz, E., Tilgner, K., Barker, N., van de Wetering, M., Clevers, H., Dorobek, M., …Hutchison, C. (2006). The inner nuclear membrane protein Emerin regulates beta-catenin activity by restricting its accumulation in the nucleus. The EMBO Journal, 25(14), 3275-3285. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.emboj.7601230

Emerin is a type II inner nuclear membrane (INM) protein of unknown function. Emerin function is likely to be important because, when it is mutated, emerin promotes both skeletal muscle and heart defects. Here we show that one function of Emerin is t... Read More about The inner nuclear membrane protein Emerin regulates beta-catenin activity by restricting its accumulation in the nucleus.

Lamina-associated polypeptide 2 alpha regulates cell cycle progression and differentiation via the retinoblastoma-E2F pathway (2006)
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Dorner, D., Vlcek, S., Foeger, N., Gajewski, A., Makolm, C., Gotzmann, J., …Foisner, R. (2006). Lamina-associated polypeptide 2 alpha regulates cell cycle progression and differentiation via the retinoblastoma-E2F pathway. Journal of Cell Biology, 173(1), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200511149

Lamina-associated polypeptide (LAP) 2 is a nonmembrane-bound LAP2 isoform that forms complexes with nucleoplasmic A-type lamins. In this study, we show that the overexpression of LAP2 in fibroblasts reduced proliferation and delayed entry into the ce... Read More about Lamina-associated polypeptide 2 alpha regulates cell cycle progression and differentiation via the retinoblastoma-E2F pathway.

‘Buddhism and the Ethics of Species Conservation’ (2006)
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James Simon, P. (2006). ‘Buddhism and the Ethics of Species Conservation’. Environmental Values, 15(1), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327106776678942

Efforts to conserve endangered species of animal are, in some important respects, at odds with Buddhist ethics. On the one hand, being abstract entities, species cannot suffer, and so cannot be proper objects of compassion or similar moral virtues. O... Read More about ‘Buddhism and the Ethics of Species Conservation’.

Principle, Proceduralism and Precaution in a Community of Rights. (2006)
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Beyleveld, D., & Brownsword, R. (2006). Principle, Proceduralism and Precaution in a Community of Rights. Ratio Juris: An international journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 19(2), 141-168

This paper presents a sketch of the way in which an ideal-typical community of rights, Gewirthia, responds to the so-called "internal problem of authority". Notwithstanding the deep moral consensus in Gewirthia, where citizens are fully committed to... Read More about Principle, Proceduralism and Precaution in a Community of Rights..