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The whooping cough has re-emerged in high-income countries despite high vaccine coverage. The increased incidence of pertussis has been attributed to a replacement of whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccines to acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines in these countries.

‘Why do we punish?’ is a question that scholars tackled from a variety of angles. Philosophers have addressed it from a justificatory perspective, debating what (if anything) justifies punishment.

The human life expectancy at birth has remarkably increased, especially since the mid-1800s, and has continued to rise steadily to date.

One solution to many problems (i.e., depletion of fossil fuels, environmental pollution, global warming and other climate issues) relies strongly on the development of hydrogen economy.

Freshwater resources comprise only 3% of the total water available on our planet. Based on the estimate made by World Wildlife Organization, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages by 2025.

Autonomous robotic manipulation in novel situations is widely considered as an unsolved problem.

We are currently in an era of enormous advances in cosmology, where the distribution of large-scale structure in the universe and the relic-radiation from the big bang are being measured with unprecedented precision.

How do people communicate with each other when they do not share a common language or are not allowed to use language to communicate?

The current project investigates grammatical voice from a functional-typological perspective to understand the relationship between linguistic form and meaning in this domain.

Questions whether science should be value-free, or whether value influences are inevitable have been an important topic of investigation in the philosophy of science.