comparison of virtue ethics and utilitarianism

... Brucellacapt and Coombs tests in terms of sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis and follow-up of brucellosis and it was concluded that the results were similar in the follow-up of patients ... ELISA Ig G and 71.4 % for ELISA Ig M They found the compatibility of ELISA Ig M and Ig G test results with STA at the level of 75.3 % for Ig M and 84.4 % for Ig G These results were high in comparison ... 1/5120 positive and 1/10240 positive ELISA results, on the other hand, were divided into positive and negative and a distribution table was structured according to the results of immuncapture...

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... investigation and choice of dialects are presented Part II provides an overview of the tones and intonation of the Vietnamese language This lays the basis for comparing aspects of Vietnamese ... Through a comparison of the intonation of Vietnamese with that of English, an EFL instructor can anticipate potential problems for Vietnamese learners of English while learning this aspect of pronunciation ... Yuen Ren, The Non-Uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems, Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 4/4, 363-397, 1942 [4] A Rygaloff, Grammaire élémentaire...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... profession and acts on behalf of its members Some 80-90% of accountants are also members of the Institute (Wagenhofer, 1996) which is responsible for technical matters The period of training and ... sheet and profit and loss account; the valuation rules and notably the limited possibility to depart from the historical cost principle; the minimum content of the notes and the annual report; and ... European business, and the work of two bodies, the EU and IASC, pursuing this objective: Compare the rules of the government and the accounting profession in accounting regulation in each of the three...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... CENTER FOR CORPORATE ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE The Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance is committed to improving public understanding of corporate ethics, law and governance, and to identifying ... of 2008 has aroused the interest of U.S policymakers in the mechanisms of corporate governance, compliance, and ethics, and their collective role in preventing and mitigating excesses and scandals ... and Ethics? The current financial crises and fresh wave of corporate scandals have put the spotlight back on the role of boards of directors in overseeing the activities of management Legal and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:20

... between the advocates of virtue ethics and utilitarian and Kantian approaches, and that it reveals the richness and strength of a more developed and rigorous account of virtue ethics This page intentionally ... these forms of virtue ethics, on the one hand, and character-based forms of Kantianism and utilitarianism, on the other hand, would become apparent in practice in their different ways of handling ... plurality of the virtues distinguishes virtue ethics 28 29 On the evaluative pluralism of virtue ethics, see Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato, in Nicomachean Ethics I ; Wallace, Virtues and Vices,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... similarities and differences This comparison reflects a previous analysis comprising a random sample of 193 words from a 50 million word corpus of 85,432 news articles (Church and Gale 1999) Church and ... the vocabulary size and the number of documents, the average number of terms per document has increased from 7.9, 12.2 and 32 in Sparck Jones (1972), to 20 and 32 in Salton and Buckley (1988), ... and term spaces We expect that all event spaces will conform to Zipf’s Law (3) Direct IDF, ISF, and ITF comparison The log2(N) and log2(ni) should allow a direct comparison between IDF, ISF and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... the sides and sculptures generally in the central area of the rooms There is an impression of class, symmetry and grandeur given by the Great Hall, viewing rooms and the architecture of the Met ... Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of New York are both masterpieces of architecture that communicate their form and function in contrasting styles The Met gives the viewer a sense of grandeur and ... up to the entrance is reminiscent of the Parthenon and gives the building a sense of grandeur (picture 15) This façade has three grand arches defined by pairs of Corinthian columns There is a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:00

... Selection of a pair of words wo E V1 and vo E V2, and a head transducer 3,10 to start the entire derivation ' Selection of a pair of dependent words w I and v~ and transducer M I given head words w and ... time, and space comparison Effectiveness Comparison English-Chinese ATIS Models Both the transfer and transducer systems were trained and evaluated on English-to-Mandarin Chinese translation of ... use of both positive and negative instances of performing a task Here we take a positive instance to be the derivation of a "'correct" translation, and a negative instance the derivation of an...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... 5.3  Study quality 15  5.4  Comparison of content of nutrients and other substances in crops 16  5.5  Comparison of content of nutrients and other substances in livestock products ... Examination of full texts resulted in the exclusion of 145 studies for a variety of reasons including absence of peer review, no relevant outcome measure and lack of direct comparison of organic ... 2000 2007 No direct comparison of organic vs conventional No direct comparison of organic vs conventional No direct comparison of organic vs conventional No direct comparison of organic vs conventional...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... leaflet of the membrane, the differences observed Comparison of open and closed models of human P-gp above also suggest differences in their role for the function of protein and ligand binding TM4 and ... Pajeva et al Comparison of open and closed models of human P-gp A C B D Fig The interaction panel of the ligand QZ59-SSS in the X-ray structure of mouse P-gp (PDB ID code 3G61): (A) ligand 1, molecule ... (human Tyr307) Ligand (molecule A) and ligand (molecule B) were not fully resolved and the analyses of the ligand interactions thus involved only parts of the structures For ligand (Fig 5B), arene–arene...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... CER describes the ratio of the sum of deleted, inserted, and substituted concepts w.r.t a Levenshtein-alignment for a given reference concept-string, and the total number of concepts in all reference ... the number of falsely translated sentences and the total number of sentences w.r.t the concept-level The concept-alignment error rate (C-AER), which is defined as the ratio of the sum of falsely ... Communication and Technology, pages 2205-2208, Aalborg, Denmark, September S Miller, R Bobrow, R Ingria, and R Schwartz 1994 Hidden understanding models of natural language In Proceedings of the Association...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page 11 of 15 Figure Evaluation of the interrelationship between the type and timing of the second stimulus and expansion of restimulated CD4 (A and B) and CD8 (C and D) T cells To ... cases, Li and Kurlander Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:104 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page of 15 Figure Comparison of the impact of anti-CD3/CD28 beads and soluble ... in medium Li and Kurlander Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:104 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page of 15 Figure Comparison of T cell phenotype 14 and 21 days after...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... effects of PT on quality of life Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the effects of ST and PT to one another and to a wait list control group with respect to changes in quality of ... Stewart and King's [16] conceptual framework of quality of life (QOL), we view QOL as consisting of both function and well-being Furthermore, well-being consists of both proximal outcomes of physical ... terms of age, BMI, education, and distribution of men and women at baseline In total, 15 participants were randomized to each of the three groups At the 12-wk assessment, 12 PT, 11 ST, and 13...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... planned and designed the study, performed some of the statistical analysis, drafted the manuscript and coordinated the study PG participated in the planning and design of the study, interpretation of ... analyses Data quality The two versions of the NFAS were compared for levels of missing data, and floor and ceiling effects, which were expressed as percentages Tests of scaling assumptions Internal ... [27], who compared feasibility of health measurement response scales using four, five and seven categories and a visual analog scale The level of missing data was least and the responder preference...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... with their dominant hand (19 right handed subjects and left handed subject) The protocol was approved by the University of California at Irvine Institutional Review Board, and was in compliance ... is the center of the sphere, ρ is the radius, and Φ and θ are pitch and yaw angles We set θ and Φ to be linearly related to generate a curve on the sphere: Φ = c1·θ + c2 where c1 and c2 are constants ... training protocol consisted of a sequence of nine cycles Each of the nine cycles consisted of two phases, a training phase, and a recall phase, with each phase consisting of seven separate movements...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... component of the tumor and spinal stabilization did not required On the other hand, posterior approaches were performed in 33.3% of patients with a Karnofsky score of 50–70 and in 43.8% of patients ... anterolateral and combined approaches were performed in 33.3% of patients (19/57)with Karnofsky scores of 80–100 and in 26.3% of patients (15/57) with modified Tokuhashi scores of 0–1 Posterior ... had a mean age of 48.9 ± 16.3 years and consisted of 36 males (63.1%) and 21 females (36.9%) Preoperative assessments included a medical history, a history of primary tumors, and spinal magnetic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010, 5:23 http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/23 Page of 1 )Comparison of axial and torsional stiffness characteristics of TSF with half pins and transverse ... genesis and growth of tissues Part I The influence of stability of fixation and soft-tissue preservation Clin Orthop Relat Res 1989, 238:249-81 17 Hillard PJ, Harrison AJ, Atkins RM: The yielding of ... Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010, 5:23 http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/23 Page of Half pins not need tensioning and with decreasing incidence of infection with surgical care and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... leg length and femoral offset restoration is the leading cause of patient dissatisfaction in hip replacement surgery and has profound implications on patient quality of life The aim of this study ... pelvis and reduces both the range of movement [6] and the tension on surrounding soft tissues A low femoral offset can lead to wearing of the acetabular cup which is the primary cause of aseptic ... length of the femur [8] (see figure 5) Moses’ concentric circles method was used to find the central of rotation of the femoral head [10] A leg length difference of up to ±10mm and femoral offset of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... temperature dependence of both μ and the fitted values of lj, and can be seen to be independent of the choice of contact metallization The obtained values are Figure Temperature dependence of the two-terminal ... Intrinsic properties of NiSi Journal of Alloys amd Compounds 1997, 262:235 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-538 Cite this article as: Polley et al.: Comparison of nickel silicide and aluminium ohmic contact ... Research Council in the form of an Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship Authors’ contributions CMP fabricated and measured the samples and wrote the manuscript WRC and MYS assisted in experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... regulation and usage between Canada and Vietnam This was definitely the case for tetracycline, ampicillin, and sulfa drug use in both countries, and ceftiofur and apramycin use in Canada, and enrofloxacin ... PCR for the presence of defining genes of ETEC and STEC pathotypes They were then virotyped by colony hybridisation (Ngeleka et al., 2002) for detection of the presence of 20 virulence genes ... 46:143-152 COMPARISON OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE OF PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI IN DISEASED PIGS IN VIETNAM AND QUEBEC, CANADA Thuy, N Do1; Darren J Trott2, Éric Nadeau3, Clarisse Desautels4, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20