Deconstruction – Space – Ethics: Where to Start…

Medical ethics in Libya: where to start?

When it was decided that I will write the editorial for the second issue of the Libyan Journal of Medicine, I was not sure where to start. There are many topics that are related to global health issues and many are specifically related to the health system in Libya. For this issue, I decided to start some discussion on medical ethics as it relates to the Libyan medical culture. In our culture w...

Administrative Reform in Bangladesh: Where to Start?

Expansion of the private, NGO, and international sectors has made administrative reform very urgent in Bangladesh. The rigidity of the government pay scale in presence of private and international pay scales has led to a bad equilibrium in the government service factor market. This bad equilibrium has led to decline in effort and quality of entrants. It has led to an unhealthy gap in official a...

Where to Start Browsing the Web?

Both human users and crawlers face the problem of finding good start pages to explore some topic. We show how to assist in qualifying pages as start nodes by link-based ranking algorithms. We introduce a class of hub ranking methods based on counting the short search paths of the Web. Somewhat surprisingly, the Page Rank scores computed on the reversed Web graph turn out to be a special case of...

Where to Start a Geometric Random Walk?

Leadership: Where organization studies meet ethics

Leadership Studies is a new interdisciplinary field of Organization Studies that is growing at a steady rate all over the world. Leadership studies are seen as a branch of Management and Organization Sciences despite its philosophical roots that can be traced back to Plato’s philosophical writings such as Laws, Politics, or The Republic. Starting from Burns’ seminal book, Leadership (1978), and...