... of the Philosophy of Risk For examples of the first five of these fallacies and clarifications of why they are fallacies, see Hansson (2004b) For the last of these fallacies, see Roeser (2006) The ... compatible with the principle of maximizing expected utility The principle of maximizing expected utility takes the total value of an act to equal the sum total of the values of its possible ... likely the outcomes are to materialize An important step in the development of modern decision theory was the development of axiomatic accounts of the principle of maximizing expected utility The...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20
... undermining the status of the medical profession We are also concerned about the level of understanding on the part of the purchaser, the verification of authenticity of the patient request and the potential ... uphold the established ethical practices of the medical profession The foundation for the ethical principles of the medical profession (in the western world) is the Hippocratic Oath (Nova, 2001a) The ... the notion of “informed.” At the level of individual applications for online prescriptions, the online questionnaire takes no account of the level of literacy of the patient—either in terms of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20
HIV-INFECTION – IMPACT, AWARENESS AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS ppt
... with the risk of becoming infected being dependent on the background prevalence in the population, the number of concurrent partnerships, the frequency of change of sex partners, the frequency of ... containing the energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital, the component vector to the overall polarizability in the Y plane, the total energy, and the sum of the bond electrotopological values of ... management of this disease The impact of HIV/AIDS on the daily lives of those people affected by the disease is discussed in section four The ethical aspects of HIV infection and the acceptability of...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 19:20
SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE INTERNET pdf
... access to the Internet, but with inequality in access to the attention of those who use the Internet By dramatically reducing the cost of the replication and distribution of information, the Internet ... account for one in four of the most visited destinations of the Web (Waxman 2000b) The search engines they feature are often biased in their identification and, especially, ranking of sites in response ... A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 Berkeley: Univ Calif Press Fountain JE 2001a The economic impact of the Internet on the government sector In The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20
Ethical and social aspects of evaluating fetal screening
... group of target individuals What can be done? The current state of aVairs where the value of a health technology is judged only on the basis of some of its consequences, and the use of the technology ... continue the pregnancy regardless of fetal abnormalities, the parents take the responsibility They may, both in their own eyes and that of others and society, feel that they have to bear the consequences, ... general – if the birth of people like themselves is not wanted, they may think that they are not wanted either The fourth special feature of fetal screening, diVerentiating it from other antenatal...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Tài liệu The Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery pptx
... response, the judge shifted the burden of proof by ruling that Morgan Stanley “shall bear the burden of proving to the jury, by the greater weight of the evidence, that it lacked knowledge of the ... academics The multiyear process to amend the federal rules, the ongoing activities of the Sedona Conference, the ABA, the Conference of Chief Judges, and other organizations, and the high profile the ... perceptions of the effects of e-discovery on the legal system Second, we reviewed the current state of e-discovery law and practices, including the main features of the new Federal Rules of Civil...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu Research evaluation of economic, social, and ecological implications of the programme for commercial tree plantations: case study of rubber in the south of Laos PDR pptx
... to the suitability of the land or the nature of the project and there was no study of the distribution of income in the local area 2.5 Lack of participation by affected people The granting of ... some of the written contracts include the signatures of the local Lao officials State policy, international institutions and the promotion of the rubber industry The origins of the promotion of ... the development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and the process of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20
Aesthetic and Ethical Implications of Participatory Hypermedia Practice pdf
... affect the engagement of participants with each other, with the subject matter of their work, and with the nature and shaping of the hypermedia artifact Of further concern are the actions and their ... understandings of the aesthetic, are irrelevant The focus of this theory is on the process of the creating, (not on the object created) The proper attitude for those involved is one of “total commitment.” ... precision, they may offer in originality, and in the depth of feeling and the richness of resonance with which they communicate (Dewey, 1934) The act of taking events from the stream of consciousness...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20
The Social-cultural and Economic Implications of the Presence of Mobile Phones Among Overseas Migrant Worker Families in Kecopokan Hamlet, East Java, Indonesia
... At the national level, Sukamdi et al (2004) points out that from 1983 to 1999 the growth of remittances was greater than the growth of the number of migrants, showing the positive outcome of the ... to raise a quota of sugar or tobacco in their tiny plots of flat, well-watered rice areas to be collected by the Dutch tax agents The profits that the Dutch got from the sale of the products were ... finance the industrialization of Holland and the expansion of Dutch power in their colonies including Indonesia During the colonial period, using the profits from their cultuurstelsel, the Dutch...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 10:07
Cambridge.University.Press.Globalisation.and.the.Western.Legal.Tradition.Recurring.Patterns.of.Law.and.Authority.Mar.2008.pdf
... and the rise of the state 6.1 The birth of the state 6.2 Legal diversity and universality in the emerging European states 6.3 The decline of the Christian commonwealth 6.4 The arrival of the ... villages In a similar vein, the Sapeurs of the Congo have appropriated the global image of the white coat of the medical profession to bolster the prestige of the witch doctor.33 These general patterns ... and the proper domain of the United Nations Many commentators write of the decline of the nation-state, in the face of the transference of national sovereignty to such structures as the UN, the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54
Environmental and Social Impacts of Shrimp farming in Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam-Local perception
... worked in the area The research team consisted of a staff from RIA No 1, DOFI and CSSH and officers of People's Committee of the District (PCD) and People's Committee of the Commune (PCC) The fieldwork ... in cooperation with the Department of Fisheries (DOFI) The study attempts to provide a balanced analysis of both the positive and the negative impacts of shrimp farming on the environment and ... in the Tam Giang area The district is located in the centre of the Tam Giang lagoon, with a history of shrimpfarm activities For several years, the district has been the principal contributor of...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:15
Environmental, economic and social benefits of 3R approach in VN
... of the society; To establish the infrastructure, finance and human resource for 3R implement The specific target until 2015: 80 % of solid waste will be collected; Reduce the generated rate of ... waste; The amount of solid waste that requires land filling and incineration will be cut down to 70% of the total volume of collected waste while 30% will be reused and recycled To 2020, the general ... production and consumption society The specific target until 2020: 95 % of solid waste will be collected; Reduce the generated rate of solid waste; The amount of solid waste that requires land...
Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2013, 12:31
Between fathers and fetuses - the social construction of male reproduction and the politics of fetal harm
... in the dominant paradigm of fertility and reproduction, a shift generated by the development of the ‘seductive egg’ theory 119 120 C.R Daniels The ‘seductive egg’ theory The ‘seductive egg’ theory ... from virtually all of the news stories on fetal health and addiction The absence of fathers in news reports of crack babies was made easier to believe by the racial subtext of the story: African–American ... discussion of the rise of the concept of fetal rights and fetal protectionism can be found in Daniels, 1993.) After a brief discussion of the social construction of maternity and paternity, I analyse the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures v6 module 11 social engineering
... the person is on vacation or out of town, and verification is not instantly possible Even though there might be a hint of suspicion on the authenticity of the request, people tend to err on the ... from the other party, there wasn’t a photo Instead, upon accessing the attachment, the hard drive began to spin Fortunately, the employee was sophisticated enough to understand the danger of a ... misusing the resources of an organization, and for preventing the theft of sensitive data Archive critical data: A record of an organization’s critical data must be maintained in the form of archives...
Ngày tải lên: 26/12/2013, 20:22
Tài liệu Cleaner Water in China? The Implications of the Amendments to China’s Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution pptx
... China, the ‘value’ of wildlife lost as a result of the pollution accident will not be considered part of the ‘direct loss’ base.”121 Though the size of the penalties allowed has increased, the law ... control.”89 The 2008 LPCWP requires the governments of the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities to implement a system of total quantity control of the discharge of key pollutants in their ... many provisions of the old law with many of the regulations In fact, sections of the Implementing Rules and the Interim Measures are copied directly into the 2008 LPCWP As a result, the amended law...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE-MALE BEAUTY AND AESTHETIC SURGERY: A CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS ppt
... According to 2002 statistics (one of the few available on the topic) of the diffusion of aesthetic surgery in the world, the three European countries of interest to the research to be presented here ... through their tendency to identify the interests of their dominators as their own The radical feminist approach describes one of the key components of what we might call the social representation of ... itself from the other beauty enhancing techniques as the ultimate symbol of invasion of the human body for the sake of physical beauty” (Gimlin, 2000, p 80) The aesthetic dimension of this intervention...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu tools for institutional political and social analysis of policy reform pptx
Ngày tải lên: 23/02/2014, 21:20