Ethical Operational Codes and Dealing with China

Dealing with Uncertainty in Operational Transport Planning

An important problem in transportation is how to ensure efficient operational route planning when several vehicles share a common road infrastructure with limited capacity. Examples of such a problem are route planning for automated guided vehicles in a terminal and route planning for aircraft taxiing at airports. Maintaining efficiency in such transport planning scenarios can be difficult for ...

Are Ethical Codes of Conduct Toothless Tigers for Dealing with Employment Discrimination?

This study examined the influence of two organizational context variables, codes of conduct and supervisor advice, on personnel decisions in an experimental simulation. Specifically, we studied personnel evaluations and decisions in a situation where codes of conduct conflict with supervisor advice. Past studies showed that supervisors’ advice to prefer ingroup over outgroup candidates leads to...

Ethical Challenges for Journalists in Dealing with Hate Speech

Operational Aspects of Dealing with the Large BaBar Data Set

To date, the BaBar experiment has stored over 0.7PB of data in an Objectivity/DB database. Approximately half this data-set comprises simulated data of which more than 70% has been produced at more than 20 collaborating institutes outside of SLAC. The operational aspects of managing such a large data set and providing access to the physicists in a timely manner is a challenging and complex prob...

Dysphagia Management for School Children: Dealing With Ethical Dilemmas

Hillary is a 6-year-old with severe cerebral palsy and cognitive disability. Hillary has been attending a private school for children with developmental disabilities and severe handicaps for the past 2 months. According to her record, the student has a history of oral-pharyngeal dysphagia with silent aspiration and several bouts of pneumonia in the past 2 years. She has a PEG tube by which she ...