In his book The Law of Peoples, John Rawls adds an eighth law to his previous account: peoples have a duty to assist other peoples living under unfavorable conditions that prevent their having a just or decent political and social regime.” This addition is meant to show that Rawls’ proposal can give a plausible account of global economic justice, albeit a less egalitarian one than his cosmopoli...

Pandemics and acute emergencies raise pressing medical, ethical and organisational challenges. These include global governance, priority setting, triaging of patients, allocation of scarce resources and restricting individual liberty in the interests of public health. We will focus particularly on an issue of direct relevance to all respiratory team members, i.e. what is the duty of the healthc...

BACKGROUND Emergency Medical Services workers' willingness to report to duty in an influenza pandemic is essential to healthcare system surge amidst a global threat. Application of Witte's Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) has shown utility for revealing influences of perceived threat and efficacy on non-EMS public health providers' willingness to respond in an influenza pandemic. We thus ...

Camera sensor networks—wireless networks of low-power imaging sensors—have become popular recently for monitoring applications. In this paper, we argue that traditional vision-based techniques for calibrating cameras are not directly suitable for low-power sensors deployed in remote locations. We propose approximate techniques to determine the relative locations and orientations of camera senso...

The original Tarasoff decision created a duty for California psychotherapists to warn potential victims of their patients. After rehearing the matter two years later, the California Supreme Court, in the landmark second Tarasoff decision, changed the duty to warn to a duty to protect potential victims, with warning as only one of the options for discharging that duty. Despite this change, the T...

Separation of duty, as a security principle, has as its primary objective the prevention of fraud and errors. This objective is achieved by disseminating the tasks and associated privileges for a specific business process among multiple users. This principle is demonstrated in the traditional example of separation of duty found in the requirement of two signatures on a check. Previous work on s...

In this paper, we study the fundamental optimization problem in Wireless Sensor Networks of base-station positioning such that data from the sensors may be transmitted to it in an energy-efficient manner. We primarily consider the setting where a sensor transmits all of its data directly to the base-station or relays it via one other node. This setting provides two benefits: low duty-cycling du...

Table 1: Sample Concordances of duty (split into two senses) Sense Examples (from Canadian Hansards) tax fewer cases of companies paying duty and then claiming a refund and impose a countervailing duty of 29,1 per cent on candian exports of the united states imposed a duty on canadian salttish last year obligation it is my honour and duty to present a petition duly approved working well beyond ...