The trolley problem presents a question of human perception of morality which presents two methods of killing in order to save lives. In the one problem‚ a trolley can be diverted with the turning of a switch‚ thus killing one but saving five‚ or to take direct physical action and push a large man onto the tracks‚ killing one‚ but saving five. In the responses which were given on the discussion board‚ I could not predict with truth what I would in reality do. To both responses‚ I wrote that it
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Law of Acceleration (1907) by Henry Adams (1838-1918) Images are not arguments‚ rarely even lead to proof‚ but the mind craves them‚ and‚ of late more than ever‚ the keenest experimenters find twenty images better than one‚ especially if contradictory; since the human mind has already learned to deal in contradictions. The image needed here is that of a new center‚ or preponderating mass‚ artificially introduced on earth in the midst of a system of attractive forces that previously
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CASE 3.1 THE TROLLEY DODGERS In 1890‚ the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers professional baseball team joined the National League. Over the following years‚ the Dodgers would have considerable difficulty competing with the other baseball teams in the New York City area. Those teams‚ principal among them the New York Yankees‚ were much better financed and generally stocked with players of higher caliber. In 1958‚ after nearly seven decades of mostly frustration on and off the baseball field‚ the Dodgers
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SMART SUPER MARKET Project Completion Report The Smart supermarket is a project where the customer’s mobile phone pairs with a supermarket trolley and sends the shopping list to the trolley. The smart trolley displays customized special offers and the availability of the items in the shop automatically. The customer picks up the items. The trolley keeps track of the barcodes and allows automatic checkout by sending the barcodes of the item to the Till. The Till processes the customer’s bill by
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Project proposal for Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge India Design Contest 2015 Project Domain –Assistive Technologies E-Trolley for Shopping Malls K.L.E Institute of Technology Hubli Name College ID/Roll No. UG/PG Course/Branch Semester Amit P Gopashetti 2KE11EC003 UG BE/ECE VII Brian D’souza 2KE11EC010 UG BE/ECE VII Avinash A.H 2KE11EC008 UG BE/ECE VII Ramasidda Gadadi 2KE11EC062 UG BE/ECE VII Mentored by Ravi.Hosamani Assistant Professor Electronics and Communication Engg
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PROJECT NAME SMART TROLLEY FOR MALLS ------------------------------------------------- Aim: Design of Smart Trolleys for malls INTRODUCTION: ------------------------------------------------- Write by own: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- In today’s ever fast growing world of boom the whole world is experiencing a fast growth. All the fundamental facilities are also growing. One such place where people can shop for almost everything
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Duncan‚ Vinny‚ and Wayne are all friends working - or wasting time - the summer before senior year in high school. Duncan is the soul‚ Vinny the brains‚ and Wayne the muscle. At the end of the previous summer‚ Duncan tried to save a drowning girl and failed. Not being a hero has really affected his life‚ particularly his relationship with his girlfriend Kim. Also‚ he is now terrified of swimming‚ especially when the nightmares come back. Duncan’s summer job is with the public transit lost and
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even turbulence seemed to be having a day off. But about twenty minutes later‚ the plane sharply jolted back and forth. It was sharp enough to grab everybody’s attention. A cold shiver ran down my spine and I quietly scolded myself for visualizing all those movies about plane crashes in just a fraction of a second. I hadn’t even calmed my nerves down when suddenly extreme turbulence started occurring‚ making the plane lurch sideways and bags started falling from the upper luggage compartments. I could
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even turbulence seemed to be having a day off. But about twenty minutes later‚ the plane sharply jolted back and forth. It was sharp enough to grab everybody’s attention. A cold shiver ran down my spine and I quietly scolded myself for visualizing all those movies about plane crashes in just a fraction of a second. I hadn’t even calmed my nerves down when suddenly extreme turbulence started occurring‚ making the plane lurch sideways and bags started falling from the upper luggage compartments. I could
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a 2 (audio timer) x 2 (visual timer) factorial ANOVA was performed. The participants’ scores were based on how many anagrams they completed correctly. The scores of each participant were hand counted for every group. The means for each condition are shown in Figure 1. As hypothesized a significant main effect for the audio timer was found (F (1‚ 62) = 4.627‚ p = .04‚ ɳ2 = .07) with participants in the audio timer group completing fewer anagrams than participants in the visual timer group. No
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