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A fascinating exploration into the neuroscientific evidence on 'mind reading'. In addition, it provides a thorough analysis of both legal and moral accounts of privacy, with chapters written by leading academics from the fields of psychology neuroscience, philosophy, and law.

Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Translator's Preface to the US Edition -- Note on Abbreviations -- Translator's Introduction -- Notes on the Translation -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Search of Being -- I. The Idea of the Phenomenon -- II. The Phenomenon of Being and the Being of the Phenomenon -- III. The Prereflective 'Cogito' and the Being of the 'Percipere' -- IV. The Being of the 'Percipi' -- V. The Ontological Proof -- VI. Being in Itself -- Part One: The Problem of Nothingness -- Chapter 1: The Origin of Negation -- I. Questioning -- II. Negations -- III. The Dialectical Conception of Nothingness -- IV. The Phenomenological Conception of Nothingness -- V. The Origin of Nothingness -- Chapter 2: Bad Faith -- I. Bad Faith and Lies -- II. Forms of Bad Faith -- III. The "Faith" of Bad Faith -- Part Two: Being-For-Itself -- Chapter 1: The Immediate Structures of the For-Itself -- I. Self-Presence -- II. The For-Itself's Facticity -- III. The For-Itself and the Being of Value -- IV. The For-Itself and the Being of Possibles -- V. My Self and the Circuit of Ipseity -- Chapter 2: Temporality -- I. Phenomenology of the Three Temporal Dimensions -- II. The Ontology of Temporality -- III. Original Temporality and Psychological Temporality: Reflection -- Chapter 3: Transcendence -- I. Knowledge as a Type of Relation between the For-Itself and the In-Itself -- II. On Determination as Negation -- III. Quality and Quantity, Potentiality and Equipmentality -- IV. World-Time -- V. Knowledge -- Part Three: Being-for-the-Other -- Chapter 1: The Other's Existence -- I. The Problem -- II. The Reef of Solipsism -- III. Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger -- IV. The Look -- Chapter 2: The Body -- I. The Body as Being-for-Itself: Facticity -- II. The Body-for-the-Other -- III. The Third Ontological Dimension of the Body.

Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation--the first in more than 60 years--of Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal treatise on existentialism. "This is a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own intrinsic power and as a profound symptom of our time" (The New York Times).In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, and laid the foundation of his legacy as one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers. A brilliant and radical account of the human condition, Being and Nothingness explores what gives our lives significance. In a new, more accessible translation, this foundational text argues that we alone create our values and our existence is characterized by freedom and the inescapability of choice. Far from being an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences, human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and imbuing it with meaning. Now with a new foreword by Harvard professor of philosophy Richard Moran, this clear-eyed translation guarantees that the groundbreaking ideas that Sartre introduced in this resonant work will continue to inspire for generations to come.

Effective management of our natural world under current and future conditions requires efficient, collaborative and complementary planning and decision-making processes with clear lines of accountability. While there has been significant progress in establishing national databases for the management of species observation data, these only represent samples of a species' total distribution. The need and challenge therefore is to model these point-based observation data to obtain estimates or projections of the total range and distribution of the species. Such Species Distribution Models (SDMs), also known as Environmental Niche Models (ENMs), and the geographic data (or "maps") they generate, provide vital information needed by governments at all levels to meet various policy and statutory responsibilities and obligations. SDMs quantify the response of species occurrence to environmental conditions described by variables such as climate, substrate, productivity and vegetation. The outcomes of an SDM can be used to identify locations and regions with potentially suitable environmental conditions for a species, as well as assess how species may respond to projected future climate changes or habitat loss. While SDMs are widely used in many decision- and policy-making programs, investment in species distribution information has been fragmented and limited. In Australia, three different government departments joined forces with the Atlas of Living Australia and the Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory to develop a standard framework for modelling threatened species distributions for use in policy and environmental decision-making. The pilot program that will be conducted throughout 2019 includes three complementary pillars: An expert panel with both researchers and government practitioners who will review current SDM practices used in government and develop a set of best-practice methods. A technology program that includes the development of a new modelling platform that implements the best-practice methods for transparent and reproducible SDMs for decision making as established by the expert panel. Additionally, there will be an online portal for publishing ecological model outputs in a searchable catalogue to enhance cross-jurisdiction collaborations. Establishment of a training and skill development program to upskill decision makers using the new tools and methodology in practice. This presentation will showcase the outcomes of this program and highlight how digital infrastructure can enhance decision making. In this case specifically, the collaboration across government departments ensures a) a consistent approach across jurisdictions, b) an increase in model quality, thereby leading to a decrease in unnecessary survey or consultation efforts, c) an increase in suitability, robustness and reproducibility of SDMs, and d) increased advocacy and coordination in national programs and resources.

Effective management of our natural world under current and future conditions requires efficient, collaborative and complementary planning and decision-making processes with clear lines of accountability. While there has been significant progress in establishing national databases for the management of species observation data, these only represent samples of a species' total distribution. The need and challenge therefore is to model these point-based observation data to obtain estimates or projections of the total range and distribution of the species. Such Species Distribution Models (SDMs), also known as Environmental Niche Models (ENMs), and the geographic data (or "maps") they generate, provide vital information needed by governments at all levels to meet various policy and statutory responsibilities and obligations. SDMs quantify the response of species occurrence to environmental conditions described by variables such as climate, substrate, productivity and vegetation. The outcomes of an SDM can be used to identify locations and regions with potentially suitable environmental conditions for a species, as well as assess how species may respond to projected future climate changes or habitat loss. While SDMs are widely used in many decision- and policy-making programs, investment in species distribution information has been fragmented and limited. In Australia, three different government departments joined forces with the Atlas of Living Australia and the Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory to develop a standard framework for modelling threatened species distributions for use in policy and environmental decision-making. The pilot program that will be conducted throughout 2019 includes three complementary pillars: An expert panel with both researchers and government practitioners who will review current SDM practices used in government and develop a set of best-practice methods. A technology program that includes the development of a new modelling platform that implements the best-practice ...

Many dams built over the last century in California no longer provide their intended benefits and may pose ecological and safety risks. However, a lack of clear regulatory framework, further complicated by a lack of scientific understanding of the impacts of dam removal, has handicapped many efforts to remove such outmoded dams. We investigate these challenges through a case study of York Creek Dam in St. Helena, California and show the need for standard protocols to prioritize and monitor dam removals. As a thought experiment, we explore how dam removal would proceed under the European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) and argue that California can learn from the WFD's systematic, watershed approach to improve dam removal decision-making. However, the monitoring programs under the WFD are driven by ecology and therefore provide little guidance on monitoring channel changes to evaluate whether dam removal increases the risk of flooding for downstream property, a major concern in California.

OBJECTIVES: To examine unintentional injury mortality rates in children (0–19 years) in Canada from 1950 to 2009 against national population-level injury prevention interventions. METHODS: Injury mortality rates were age and sex adjusted. Changes in trend and level of mortality rates were assessed at pre-specified intervention periods using segmented linear regression analyses for interrupted time series. Maximum likelihood estimation was used with a second order autoregressive error process. RESULTS: From 1950 to 2009, the overall unintentional injury mortality rate decreased by 86%. Males had consistently higher mortality rates compared to females; however, the standardized rate ratio decreased from 2.37:1 in 1950 to 1.97:1 in 2009. Substantial declines in choking/ suffocation deaths were noted in children less than 1 year of age, predominantly during the period 1970–1988 when the Hazardous Products Act and Crib Regulations were implemented. For burns, significant changes in slope were noted comparing 1972–1994 to pre-1971 (introduction of the Hazardous Products Act - Flammability Regulations), where the greatest decline was noted in children ages 1–4 years (Est. = −0.03, 95% CI = −0.02, −0.04). For 15–19 year olds, there was a 408% increase in motor vehicle collision-related mortality rates between 1950 and 1971; however a significant change in slope was noted during the period 1978–1985, compared to 1972–1977 (Est. = −0.10, 95% CI = −0.20, −0.007) across all age groups. CONCLUSION: While this study is not a cause and effect analysis, there is a strong association with implementation of safety campaigns and legislative changes related to child safety and a dramatic decline in childhood fatalities related to injury.

Globally, 15,521 animal species are listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and of these less than 3% have genomic resources that can inform conservation management. To combat this, global genome initiatives are developing genomic resources, yet production of a reference genome alone does not conserve a species. The reference genome allows us to develop a suite of tools to understand both genome-wide and functional diversity within and between species. Conservation practitioners can use these tools to inform their decision-making. But, at present there is an implementation gap between the release of genome information and the use of genomic data in applied conservation by conservation practitioners. In May 2020, we launched the Threatened Species Initiative and brought a consortium of genome biologists, population biologists, bioinformaticians, population geneticists, and ecologists together with conservation agencies across Australia, including government, zoos, and nongovernment organizations. Our objective is to create a foundation of genomic data to advance our understanding of key Australian threatened species, and ultimately empower conservation practitioners to access and apply genomic data to their decision-making processes through a web-based portal. Currently, we are developing genomic resources for 61 threatened species from a range of taxa, across Australia, with more than 130 collaborators from government, academia, and conservation organizations. Developed in direct consultation with government threatened-species managers and other conservation practitioners, herein we present our framework for meeting their needs and our systematic approach to integrating genomics into threatened species recovery.