Typically, information assurance (IA) professionals utilize information warfare (IW) techniques learned in professional development courses when performing vulnerability and security assessments. With cyber crime on the rise, both government and industry have come to rely on academia to properly train future IA professionals, reducing the need for professional developmental courses. This presen...

Being at the doorstep of the 21st century it is imperative to take stock of prevailing psychiatric practices so that the profession is adequately prepared to face the challanges ahead. Psychiatry has advanced rapidly during the last few decades and today our armamentarium includes an array of effective pharmacological and psychological methods to modify behaviour. Since more powerful the tool g...

There is a long history of public debate as to the acceptability of the use of animals for scientific purposes be that for research, for teaching or for product testing. The basic tenet of the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes (the Code) is that there is an ethical imperative in our decisions as to if and how animals are used in these circumstan...

Assaults on patients and medical personnel, facilities, and transports, denial of access to medical services, and misuse of medical facilities and emblems have become a feature of armed conflict despite their prohibition by the laws of war. Strategies to improve compliance with these laws, protection, and accountability are lacking, and regular reporting of violations is absent. A systematic re...

Abstract This essay examines what AI can dofor government, specifically through three generic tools at the heart of governance: detection, prediction, and data-driven decision-making. Public sector functions, such as resource allocation protection rights, are more normatively loaded than those firms, poses greater ethical challenges earlier generations digital technology, threatening transparen...

OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristics, motivations, ideologies, experience and perspectives of experienced medical humanitarian workers. DESIGN We applied a qualitative descriptive approach and conducted in-depth semistructured interviews, containing open-ended questions with directing probes, with 44 experienced international medical aid workers from a wide range of humanitarian organisat...

Health impact assessment (HIA) is increasingly being used to predict the health and social impacts of domestic and global laws, policies and programs. In a comprehensive review of HIA practice in 2012, the authors indicated that, given the diverse range of HIA practice, there is an immediate need to reconsider the governing values and standards for HIA implementation [1]. This article responds ...

While the concept of responsibility is a cornerstone Christian ethics, recognition theory still lacks thorough theological–ethical analysis. This essay seeks to fill gap and develop normative ethics responsibility. The first part provides systematic analysis conceptual elements recognition, emphasizing need focus on misrecognition as heuristic tool ethical priority. coincides with responsivity ...

Abstract This article presents selected legal, industry, and ethical issues raised by autonomous vessels ( MASS ). The are deemed important on the basis of work done at International Maritime Organization level, literature and/or practice . Such revolve around defi-nition a vessel, seaworthiness, presence crew master board Polar Code (legal concerns) smart ports (industry concerns). Another asp...