Conduct code mooted for bioweapons treaty

Beefing up the bioweapons treaty

Alongside support for renewed funding for microbiological research, many scientists are also backing a greater role for international agreements to control potential biological weapons. But such efforts present considerable challenges. One of Britain's leading microbiologists, Hugh Pennington at Aberdeen University, has written of the ease of obtaining agents such as anthrax. " In principle any...

Basic Code of Conduct for Virtual Teams

This is a literature research which provides a general code of conduct for virtual teams. The code of conduct helps virtual teams in preventing known problems for virtual teams like communication and leadership issues. The basic code of conduct is formed on the basis of these problems and the (sometimes partial) solutions found in previous research. The main points of the code of conduct are th...

Code of Conduct for NHS managers.

A better Code of Conduct.

I November 2004, Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) made substantial changes to the industry’s Code of Conduct. Although these changes might not have pleased both the medical and pharmaceutical communities, they were necessary. The original Code of Conduct was first introduced in 1988 and reflected the approach to and expectations of relationships between industry and the m...

New epoch mooted

Geological records on earth are largely set in stone, or at least the distinctive fossils to be found in different layers of rock. The geological time scale also tends to span millions of years though more recently they have comprised mere millennia, with the most recent epoch, the Holocene, traced back to have begun just 11,700 years ago at the end of the last ice age. But geologists are now c...