Another upshot is that many considerations that are presented as powerful, even decisive, objections to biomedical enhancement aren't objections at all – they are really strong considerations in favour of biomedical enhancement, just in a different direction.
It is certain that inhibition of the PDGFR β pathway plays a decisive role in the enhancement of radiosensitivity in breast cancer cell lines.
We remark that many factors can play a decisive role in the quenching and enhancement mechanisms of photoluminescence, and their effects are still in debate.
So, too, Schacht claims that Nietzsche "takes 'life' in this world to be the sole locus of value, and its preservation, flourishing, and above all its enhancement to be ultimately decisive for determinations of value" (1983: 359).
But does it constitute a decisive objection to attempting noncognitive moral enhancement?
However, the mere presence of a risk of moral decline does not show that we have decisive reasons against attempting noncognitive moral enhancement; reasons to avoid that risk might well be matched or outweighed by other, countervailing reasons.
For speech enhancement or blind signal extraction (BSE), estimating interference and noise characteristics is decisive for its performance.
Urgent and decisive action to curb the extent of deforestation and forest degradation, and promote the enhancement of carbon stocks through regeneration and afforestation, and thus better accounting of CO2 sources and sinks is paramount.
When multiple impulse voltages are injected, the charge enhancement near the joined edges of a ZnO varistor and metal electrodes plays a decisive role on the surface flashover or breakdown initiation and developments.
We identified the UBB+1-induced enhancement of the basic amino acids arginine, ornithine, and lysine at mitochondria as a decisive toxic event, which can be reversed by Cdc48/Vms1-mediated proteolysis.
