ethics and values in environmental risk assessment—a synthesis

... non-standard tests in risk assessments, two things are needed: that the legislation is designed so that nonstandard tests can be included in a systematic and predictable way, and that non-standard ... evaluated in this study and the OECD reporting requirements, and have been further developed to include both reliability and Page 14 of 15 relevance of test data Intended users are risk assessors and ... tax payer’s money and to not find a way for use of this data in risk assessments would be an inefficient and irresponsible handling of resources Acknowledgements The study was financed by Formas...

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... cycling, spread and fate of transgene products in the above- and below-ground ecosystems of the receiving environments and their potentially changing bioactivity and metabolites in the varying environmental ... effect of the combined potpourri of six toxins and two herbicide residues on human and animal health and the environment in the marketing phase, i.e the farmer and consumer In contrast and consistent ... PM: Integrating toxicology and ecology: putting the ‘eco’ into ecotoxicology Marine Pollution Bulletin 2002, 44:7-15 20 Forbes VE, Calow P: Extrapolation in ecological risk assessment: Balancing...

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... compared using discrete- and continuous-time Markov chain models Four conclusions are presented in this paper First, investigating the credit risk of bank loans using discreteand continuous-time ... 0, ∀i, j, and C +1 ∑p j =1 ij = 1, ∀i Since the information concerning within-year rating transition is ignored in the discrete-time Markov chain model, the continuous-time Markov chain model ... t+1, and ΔN hj (Ti ) is an increment of this process The assumption is also made in Copeland and Jones (2001) and Lu and Kuo (2005, 2006) 114 International Research Journal of Finance and Economics...

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... laws and guidelines concerning the best interests of children, the limits of parental consent to research involving children and the determination of risk in pediatric studies is both illuminating ... evolution in disease dynamics and in the political, economic and scientific responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic These minor reservations aside, Ethics and AIDS in Africa is a highly illuminating, stimulating ... http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/3/1/24 afield and incorporating voices of West and East Africans, and Africans living above the Sahara Many of the pieces in the book seem to have been originally written around 2001, and therefore...

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... the following topics: Introduction and informed consent: Explanation of the aim of the interview (standardised text read aloud by the interviewer), asking for informed consent, explaining the anonymous ... according to their values and preferences, and clinicians must ensure that patients’ care is in keeping with their values and preferences Are the GRADE criteria at all useful in labelling urgent ... guideline use in clinical practice to enhance implementation of shared decision making by improving clinical practice guidelines Population in- depth interviews We will recruit a purposive sampling...

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... the following topics: Introduction and informed consent: Explanation of the aim of the interview (standardised text read aloud by the interviewer), asking for informed consent, explaining the anonymous ... according to their values and preferences, and clinicians must ensure that patients’ care is in keeping with their values and preferences Are the GRADE criteria at all useful in labelling urgent ... guideline use in clinical practice to enhance implementation of shared decision making by improving clinical practice guidelines Population in- depth interviews We will recruit a purposive sampling...

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... impulsivity in a developing Cluster B personality disorder A current follow-up study has included a personality screening In summary, our findings indicate that high numbers of detained adolescent ... excellent and concurrent validity and inter-rater agreement was reported to be high [31,32] The introductory interview was left out because most items were administered by means of an introductory interview ... of the Ministry of Justice, which imposed strict conditions in terms of confidentiality, appropriate handling of information and the participants' assent for participation and for contacting the...

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... Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report, sponsored by CFA Institute It examines the role of integrity and knowledge in restoring culture in the financial services industry and in building a more ... to risk A crisis of culture Valuing ethics and knowledge in financial services Introduction In search of culture In many cases there is no such a thing as a single culture within a bank Andre ... Valuing ethics and knowledge in financial services “HSBC exposed US financial services to money laundering, drug, terrorist financing risks”, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, US Homeland...

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... workstations and mainframes within the Department of Computer Science, and supports projects in distributed computing and parallel processing such as the Camelot distributed transaction processing system ... be described in more detail in a later section When shadowing, the data is instead copied from the original 9 char *file_data; int i, file_size; extern float rand(); /* random in [0,1) */ /* ... a memory object and offset within that memory object Additional information stored for each range includes protection and inheritance information To account for sharing through inheritance, Mach...

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... following IMPACT-CN system manufactures instruction by using chitin beads column chromatography The obtained purified recombinant MCoTI-II showing inhibitory activity against trypsin ,and proteinases ... the 58 kD protein band was found in induced sample as the major band, acounted for 80% of total protein (lane 1,3,5 and 6) 58 kD Fig 10 SDS PAGE pattern of PI-17 proteins Mc Standard molecular ... Standard molecular markers 2, Uninduced 1, 3, 5, Induced (containing 58kD fusion protein band) Cells were broken by sonication in 10mM Tris-HCl buffer pH8 containing 1mM EDTA (TE buffer) After...

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... in a realistic manner, taking into account the borrowing country’s capability and experience in supplying the goods and services and constructing the works included in the project The following ... work in more than 30 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and East Asia and the Pacific Before joining the Bank, Mr Pino was an audit partner with a major international ... countries, institutions, and ordinary citizens It affects macroeconomic stability by encouraging wasteful and ineffective government expenditures and tax evasion; discourages investment, including foreign...

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... linked In Part Two, we illustrate our preferred approach in dealing with the “intertemporal resolution of uncertainty” in financial risk analysis in a way that may be understood and adopted in ... conceptual issues involved in accounting for financial risk analysis in project appraisal Part One discusses three of the main approaches to accounting for the potential financial risk of an investment ... about the price of risk makes financial risk analysis a truly daunting undertaking.1 At the same time, the rapid decline in the cost of computing power has made it increasingly easy and fashionable...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... Sbicca and Alfred T Lane 20 Ethics Education for Residents: Growing Pains and Learning Crises 119 Irèn Kossintseva and Benjamin Barankin 21 Teaching Ethics in Clinic: ... resulting from in utero exposure to isotretinoin (“isotretinoin embryopathy”) As a result of pregnancies occurring despite these warnings and patient education, three increasingly restrictive and ... decision-making to be real life situations, issues faced in everyday clinics, in business management, and in scholarly pursuits Apparently Drs Bercovitch, Perlis, and co-authors in the book Dermatoethics...

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... CURRENT ISSUES IN BUSINESS ETHICS Edited by Peter W.F.Davies THE ETHICS OF BANKRUPTCY Jukka Kilpi ETHICAL ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING Edited by Catherine Gowthorpe and John Blake ETHICS AND VALUES IN HEALTH ... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... to live in civility In short, there is a basic correspondence between ‘is’ and ‘ought’, between natural inclination and natural law Indeed, in formulating these basic human goals or inclinations,...

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... communication and information among all those who are interested in theoretical issues concerning risk and uncertainty This handbook brings together leading philosophers and scholars from other disciplines ... for all risk scholars who are interested in broadening and deepening their current perspectives The editors: Sabine Roeser (Editor -in- Chief), Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, and Martin Peterson ... mitigating these risks and the need to involve populations in the preparation, leads to a snowballing of uncertainty and indeterminacy from the scientific domain through the policy domain and into the...

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... Granger, and Max Henrion, Uncertainty: A Guide to Dealing with Uncertainty in Quantitative Risk and Policy Analysis, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990 Mullin, Theresa M., Understanding and ... mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published 2007 by the RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street, P.O Box ... improving the quantification and use of uncertainty in cost estimation It should be of interest to cost analysis professionals who wish to quantify uncertainty when using expert opinions in cost risk...

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... ponderosa pine Intermountain ponderosa pine Intermountain lodgepole pine Sierras ponderosa pine Sierras lodgepole pine Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine Great Basin ponderosa ... both even-age and uneven-age thinning operations The uneven-age scenarios included two aimed at achieving high structural diversity in the remaining stand and two aimed at achieving limited structural ... Bioenergy and Biofuels in the United States Biomass From Milling Residues Milling residues include wastes from sawdust, slabs and edgings, bark, veneer clippings, and black liquor (Rinebolt 1996) In...

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... cooperation, empowering individuals to make informed and intelligent choices, strengthening multi-stakeholder governance models, and building trust in online environments The National Science and Technology ... online personal data, and businesses faced increasing uncertainty about what U.S and international privacy policies required of them This emphasis on notice and choice and FTC enforcement in ... misunderstandings) about how companies handle personal data and inhibit their exercise of informed choices Businesses generally recognize that their sustainability depends on maintaining consumer...

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... further listing of relevant reports, see www.unesco.org/opi2/philosophyandethics/intro.htm, and the discussion in Nitin Desai, “Global Ethics in a Plural World,” in Baudot, Candles in the Dark, ... religion in global affairs and an expanding literature in this area, our Introduction  understanding of the impact of religious values on the decisions of leaders on the international stage remains ... officeholders from this standpoint provides new and illuminating perspectives on the place of ethics in international relations.82 This study also reflects the need to examine morality in international leadership...

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