Assigning ethical weights to clinical signs observed during toxicity testing

Assigning ethical weights to clinical signs observed during toxicity testing.

Reducing the number of laboratory animals used and refining experimental procedures to enhance animal welfare are fundamental questions to be considered in connection with animal experimentation. Here, we explored the use of cardinal ethical weights for clinical signs and symptoms in rodents by conducting trade-off interviews with members of Swedish Animal Ethics Committees in order to derive s...

Assigning Weights to Minimize the Covering Radius in the Plane

Given a set P of n points in the plane and a multiset W of k weights with k ≤ n, we assign each weight in W to a distinct point in P to minimize the maximum weighted distance from the weighted center of P to any point in P . In this paper, we give two algorithms which take O(kn log n) time and O(kn log k + kn log n) time, respectively. For a constant k, the second algorithm takes only O(n log n...

Polynomial Weights or Generalized Geometric Weights: Yet Another Scheme for Assigning Credits to Multiple Authors

Devising a weight assignment policy for assigning credits to multiple authors of a manuscript is a challenging task. In this paper, we present a scheme for assigning credits to multiple authors that we call a polynomial weight assignment scheme. We compare our scheme with other schemes proposed in the literature.

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN