BACKGROUND The concept of vulnerability has held a central place in research ethics guidance since its introduction in the United States Belmont Report in 1979. It signals mindfulness for researchers and research ethics boards to the possibility that some participants may be at higher risk of harm or wrong. Despite its important intended purpose and widespread use, there is considerable disagre...

In face of the increasingly serious ecological crisis, this paper discusses origin and meaning a community shared life from perspective ethics, as well goodness beauty life, which is essence human natural practice in accordance with law beauty. From integration aesthetics, focusing on unity utilitarianism non-utilitarianism, new realm pursuing harmonious coexistence man nature, contains deep re...

Using qualitative data from a Fortune 500 company undergoing a strategic change, I describe the emergence of three ethical issues and build a theory to explain how this emergence unfolds. I find that some employees reframe the meaning of strategic issues as involving ethical implications because of trigger points, ambiguity, and the use of an available employee welfare frame. These employees ta...

BACKGROUND Many studies have been published about ethics committees and the clarifications requested about the submitted applications. In Finland, ethics committees require a separate statement on ethical aspects of the research in applications to the ethics committee. However, little is known about how researchers consider the ethical aspects of their own studies. METHODS The data were colle...

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We investigated the basic meaning dimensions of overt interpersonal behavior in an observational multirater multi-situation study. The interpersonal behavior of 99 participants in 17 different interpersonal role-plays was videotaped and judged by three independent observers using 35 adjective-pairs. Principal Components Analysis yielded three factors with Eigenvalues above chance level. The fir...

This special session addresses a challenge posed by engineering ethics: What does it mean? Review of the literature shows many competing definitions, each with their own understandings of the term ethics and the role it plays in engineering. Our aim is to review the different uses of the term ―engineering ethics,‖ along with several other common terms, such as ―professional ethics‖ and ―profess...

Sartre and Levinas both described the relation to other referring Descartes’ idea of infinite. Comparing these two phenomenologies sheds a light on great influence had Levinas’ ethics. While philosophers agree that is « hole in world » sense he negates my intentionality, they fundamentally differ ultimate meaning this negation. Following thread Cartesian infinite, article deciphers critique Sar...

We describe in this article an annotation scheme for deep dependency syntax, built from the surface annotation scheme of the Sequoia corpus, abstracting away from it and expressing the grammatical relations between content words. When these grammatical relations take part into verbal diatheses, we consider the diatheses as resulting from redistributions from the canonical diathesis, which we re...