Publications by authors named "W Lenzen"
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- Measuring animal behavior has been challenging over long timescales, especially for complex behaviors that require manual scoring, but advances in machine learning offer new solutions.
- A new pipeline has been developed to continuously record and analyze animal behavior using a self-supervised computer vision model, achieving high accuracy in behavior classification comparable to expert human labelers.
- This system was tested on 97 mice over two weeks, revealing significant sex- and estrogen-dependent differences in circadian rhythms among various behaviors, and is presented as an open-source software tool called the "circadian behavioral analysis suite" (CBAS) for researchers.
In order to answer the question raised in the title of my paper, I first put forward a general ethical theory, which is based on the traditional maxim neminem laedere. Second, I show how this principle in conjunction with certain assumptions concerning the value of life entails certain fundamental bioethical principles. Thus killing a living being Y is morally wrong whenever the intrinsic value of the life that Y would otherwise live is positive.
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