scholarly journals Proceed with Caution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Annette Zimmermann ◽  
Chad Lee-Stronach
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Structural Injustice ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Similarity Judgments

Abstract It is becoming more common that the decision-makers in private and public institutions are predictive algorithmic systems, not humans. This article argues that relying on algorithmic systems is procedurally unjust in contexts involving background conditions of structural injustice. Under such nonideal conditions, algorithmic systems, if left to their own devices, cannot meet a necessary condition of procedural justice, because they fail to provide a sufficiently nuanced model of which cases count as relevantly similar. Resolving this problem requires deliberative capacities uniquely available to human agents. After exploring the limitations of existing formal algorithmic fairness strategies, the article argues that procedural justice requires that human agents relying wholly or in part on algorithmic systems proceed with caution: by avoiding doxastic negligence about algorithmic outputs, by exercising deliberative capacities when making similarity judgments, and by suspending belief and gathering additional information in light of higher-order uncertainty.

scholarly journals Between liberty and control: citizens’ attitudes towards Romanian state surveillance

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-205
Author(s):  
Paul Tap
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
And Control ◽  
Source Of Information

Surveillance was extensively analyzed in the literature from multiple standpoints. Some studies looked to the temporal development of surveillance, while others analyzed the traditional theories that influenced many of the contemporary surveillance studies. All these studies define surveillance as an activity that is ubiquitous and performed globally, by multiple private and public institutions, through the involvement of specific technologies. However, little attention was paid to the perceptions of citizens about surveillance. This article addresses this gap in the literature and analyses how state surveillance is perceived by the Romanian citizens according to the socio-demographic factors (i.e., age, education, income, gender and medium of residence). The aim of the study is to explain how socio-demographic factors influence the acceptance of state surveillance. It also controls for the left-right self-placement, and the use of Facebook as source of information. The statistical analysis uses individual level data from an original survey conducted between October-November 2020. The survey was completed by 1,140 respondents, and the article uses correlation and linear regression to analyze the data. The findings illustrate that the acceptance of state surveillance is influenced by the gender, level of education and medium of residence of the individuals. The age and income of the citizens have no effect on the acceptance of state surveillance.

scholarly journals Assessing knowledge of genetics in undergraduate students in Quito, Ecuador

F1000Research ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
David Ortega-Paredes ◽  
César Larrea-Álvarez ◽  
Michelle Herrera ◽  
Esteban Fernandez-Moreira ◽  
Marco Larrea-Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Personal Genomic ◽  
Actual Knowledge ◽  
National Education ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

Knowledge of genetics is crucial for understanding genetic and genomic tests and for interpreting personal genomic information. Despite this relevance, no data are available about the level of knowledge of genetics in an Ecuadorian population. This investigation sought to survey such knowledge in undergraduate students affiliated with private and public institutions in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. A total of 350 individuals responded to a validated questionnaire measuring knowledge of genetics. Scores ranged from 45% to 87% (mean: 66.8%), and students achieved slightly better results when asked about genetics and diseases (mean score: 68.3%) than when asked about genetic facts (mean score: 64.9%). Additionally, no significant differences in performance were found among students from private and public institutions. Surprisingly, the lower score obtained (45%) was from a question about how chromosomes are passed to the next generation. The highly educated status of the surveyed population could explain the overall adequate results; nonetheless, the possibility that the correct responses were given by chance cannot be ignored. Therefore, the actual knowledge of genetics among the participants might be less than that revealed by the percentages of correct answers. Consequently, to achieve the goal of ensuring informed decision-making concerning genetic and genomic tests, it seems evident that the national education programs of Ecuador require improvement in teaching of genetic concepts.

TRENDS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-102
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Dental School ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Pediatric Education ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Further Development

Having surveyed the health services for children throughout the nation during the postwar years and having given attention to ways of meeting the needs which were revealed, the Academy, through its Committee for the Improvement of Child Health, called attention to the importance of further development of regional planning for pediatric education and services. This Committee in a report published in 1950 stated: To meet this two-fold need [better training for physicians and better distribution of services], a solution is evolving which has as its keystone regional planning for the decentralization of training which carries with it a better distribution of medical care into the very areas where the greatest deficiencies have been shown to exist. This concept is not new or original. It has been receiving a great deal of emphasis particularly in relation to hospitals and to a lesser degree in relation to medical schools. Evidence of progress along lines recommended by the Academy in its 1950 report is again apparent. Early in October 1953 a group of 100 educators, doctors and public officials met under the auspices of the Massachusetts Medical-Dental School Commission to explore the possibilities of regional cooperation in medicine, dentistry and veterinary practice. Emphasis was placed upon a program that would cooperate with existing private and public institutions rather than compete with them.

Green IT Project Management

2013 ◽  
pp. 1072-1103
Author(s):  
Nathalie Bachour
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Green It ◽  
It Project ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
And Performance

With the constant evolution of technology and the world critical environmental status, all private and public Information Technology (IT) businesses are moving towards sustainability. Faced with influences from government regulations, market competition and constraints, as well as watchdogs, IT decision makers within organizations are forced to ride the green technology wave with a challenging and uncertain approach. This chapter defines methods to optimize Green IT projects for sustainable value creation within organizations. It only focuses on economic viability and environmental impact, but could be stretched out in the future to social aspects. The contributions of this chapter allow the project management community and decision makers to follow a framework for Green IT project success evaluation and performance follow-up throughout the project life cycle and the three levels of the organization: operational, tactical, and strategic. A macro-model is also developed to aid them in successfully selecting, prioritizing, managing, and aligning their Green IT projects with the corporate and environmental strategies.

Green IT Project Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 146-178
Author(s):  
Nathalie Bachour
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Green It ◽  
It Project ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
And Performance

With the constant evolution of technology and the world critical environmental status, all private and public Information Technology (IT) businesses are moving towards sustainability. Faced with influences from government regulations, market competition and constraints, as well as watchdogs, IT decision makers within organizations are forced to ride the green technology wave with a challenging and uncertain approach. This chapter defines methods to optimize Green IT projects for sustainable value creation within organizations. It only focuses on economic viability and environmental impact, but could be stretched out in the future to social aspects. The contributions of this chapter allow the project management community and decision makers to follow a framework for Green IT project success evaluation and performance follow-up throughout the project life cycle and the three levels of the organization: operational, tactical, and strategic. A macro-model is also developed to aid them in successfully selecting, prioritizing, managing, and aligning their Green IT projects with the corporate and environmental strategies.

scholarly journals Higher order intrinsic weak differentiability and Sobolev spaces between manifolds

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Convent ◽  
Jean Van Schaftingen
Keyword(s):  
Sobolev Space ◽  
Isometric Embedding ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Smooth Maps ◽  
Homogeneous Sobolev Space ◽  
The One ◽  
Intrinsic Definition ◽  
Sobolev Spaces Between Manifolds

AbstractWe define the notion of higher-order colocally weakly differentiable maps from a manifold M to a manifold N. When M and N are endowed with Riemannian metrics, {p\geq 1} and {k\geq 2}, this allows us to define the intrinsic higher-order homogeneous Sobolev space {\dot{W}^{k,p}(M,N)}. We show that this new intrinsic definition is not equivalent in general with the definition by an isometric embedding of N in a Euclidean space; if the manifolds M and N are compact, the intrinsic space is a larger space than the one obtained by embedding. We show that a necessary condition for the density of smooth maps in the intrinsic space {\dot{W}^{k,p}(M,N)} is that {\pi_{\lfloor kp\rfloor}(N)\simeq\{0\}}. We investigate the chain rule for higher-order differentiability in this setting.

EXTRACTING SUB-SURFACE INFORMATION FROM LONG OFFSET P-WAVE DATA—A CHEAPER ALTERNATIVE TO MULTICOMPONENT OBC FOR EXPLORATION?

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 627
Author(s):  
R.G. Williams ◽  
G. Roberts ◽  
K. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Energy ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
P Wave ◽  
S Wave ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Wave Data ◽  
Wave Velocities ◽  
Avo Inversion ◽  
Long Offset ◽  
Multicomponent Data

Seismic energy that has been mode converted from pwave to s-wave in the sub-surface may be recorded by multi-component surveys to obtain information about the elastic properties of the earth. Since the energy converted to s-wave is missing from the p-wave an alternative to recording OBC multi-component data is to examine p-wave data for the missing energy. Since pwave velocities are generally faster than s-wave velocities, then for a given reflection point the converted s-wave signal reaches the surface at a shorter offset than the equivalent p-wave information. Thus, it is necessary to record longer offsets for p-wave data than for multicomponent data in order to measure the same information.A non-linear, wide-angle (including post critical) AVO inversion has been developed that allows relative changes in p-wave velocities, s-wave velocities and density to be extracted from long offset p-wave data. To extract amplitudes at long offsets for this inversion it is necessary to image the data correctly, including correcting for higher order moveout and possibly anisotropy if it is present.The higher order moveout may itself be inverted to yield additional information about the anisotropy of the sub-surface.

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