Professional Disequilibrium

2014 ◽  
pp. 454-474
Author(s):  
Dennis Thompson
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Economics Profession ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Effective Procedures

The economics profession lags behind others in adopting policies to regulate conflict of interest. The purposes of conflict of interest regulations, which are often misunderstood, are to minimize bias in research and maintain confidence in the profession. With only minimal rules of professional ethics (such as those in the American Economics Association code), the work that economists publish and advice they give are at risk of manifesting analytic bias and generating public distrust. More effective procedures for regulating conflicts must go beyond disclosure. They include divesting, creating blind trusts, pooling multiple sources of support, and establishing an independent oversight bodies. Some relationships may have to be prohibited when the source of support is closely related to the research. Failure to deal with the challenge of conflict of interest is likely to undermine efforts to address the other serious problems the profession faces today.

scholarly journals DV-DVFS: merging data variety and DVFS technique to manage the energy consumption of big data processing

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Ahmadvand ◽  
Fouzhan Foroutan ◽  
Mahmood Fathy
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Evaluation Phase ◽  
Dynamic Voltage ◽  
Processing Resources

AbstractData variety is one of the most important features of Big Data. Data variety is the result of aggregating data from multiple sources and uneven distribution of data. This feature of Big Data causes high variation in the consumption of processing resources such as CPU consumption. This issue has been overlooked in previous works. To overcome the mentioned problem, in the present work, we used Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) to reduce the energy consumption of computation. To this goal, we consider two types of deadlines as our constraint. Before applying the DVFS technique to computer nodes, we estimate the processing time and the frequency needed to meet the deadline. In the evaluation phase, we have used a set of data sets and applications. The experimental results show that our proposed approach surpasses the other scenarios in processing real datasets. Based on the experimental results in this paper, DV-DVFS can achieve up to 15% improvement in energy consumption.

scholarly journals Yellow fever in two unvaccinated French tourists to Brazil, January and March, 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Oliosi ◽  
Chantal Serero Corcos ◽  
Paulo Feijo Barroso ◽  
Alexandre Bleibtreu ◽  
Gilda Grard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
Serological Tests ◽  
Vaccination Recommendation

We report two yellow fever cases in unvaccinated French travellers in Brazil in January and March 2018, respectively; one exposed during an excursion in Minas Gerais and the other in Ilha Grande. Both presented with fever, hepatitis, thrombocytopenia and leucopenia. Yellow fever diagnosis was based on RT-PCR and serological tests. Both patients recovered within a few days. The increasing occurrence of cases in unvaccinated travellers highlights the need to reinforce vaccination recommendation for travellers at-risk.

scholarly journals Right of cooperation between States: The search for solutions to the internal interests of immigration

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Dioclécio Salomão Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Research Proposal ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cooperative Model

The research proposal is based on analyzing whether the most different forms of Cooperation between States occur, the sovereignty of one or the other may be at risk, from the point of view of international relations with the independent treatment of immigrants. In this context, we seek to evaluate the assumptions and consequences of this cooperative model among the Constitutional States as a form of articulation and condition of this cooperative, guaranteeing the so-called fundamental rights to this portion of individuals.

scholarly journals Soldati e neuropsichiatria nell'Italia della Grande Guerra

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Romano
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Psychiatry ◽  
Constant Tension ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The One ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Relationship

Against the backdrop of a critical reflection on the psychiatric concepts of organicism and predisposition to mental illness, the research investigates the relationship between psychiatry and the Great War from a perspective that considers the complexity of the orientations assumed by both the Italian alienists on war pathologies and the health practices implemented towards soldiers. The study highlights the comparison/clash between two totally different approaches forced to coexist during the conflict: on one side, the one from military psychiatry, and on the other the distinctive one from civil asylums. The two perspectives were not always clearly separated, but it is possible to detect a constant tension between the duties towards the war effort and the professional ethics dictated by the neuropsychiatric discipline.

scholarly journals The Future of The Profession of Accountant Sharia Enter MEA In 2017

2017 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Agus Arwani
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Accountants are the actors who contribute to the establishment and implementation of accounting as a structure. On the other hand the consequences of the application of modern accounting shows the impact of a less than satisfactory. Facts show the number of accounting manipulation scandal that hit the company's financial statements and the low awareness of their social responsibility and the environment implies that very large changes in accounting principals. Accounting reality is part of how accountants take on the role. Deviations reality always brings accountants as party central is how actors and structures form mutually met. Habitus actor '' greedy '' met with accounting (capitalism) as a structure that legitimize it. In reality accountant (agent) looks so lost in the shackles of capitalism, so the agency theory in the form of a conflict of interest, it seems to shift the basis of mutual symbiosis between the interests of management and accountants. Accountants must be returned khittah her as a sovereign profession, he is an ideologue as Rausyan Fikr. All forms of deep-an accountant in worship, glorify the '' number '' in the sense of making all tasks as tasks (treatises) '' prophetic '' to map the right stakeholders fairly and correctly. This can only take place within the frame sovereign  and raise awareness of the Godhead (fervently) to put God at the summit toward accountability. Readiness accountant sharia in entering the MEA in 2017 with preparing the capabilities and expertise of sharia-based accounting standards IFRS, Accounting Sharia must understand the risks of sharia, sharia accounting should be standardized SDI International, science and technology capabilities accountant sharia be reliable.

Social Support and Nonsuicidal Self-injury among Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Kellerman ◽  
Alexander Millner ◽  
Victoria W. Joyce ◽  
Carol C. Nash ◽  
Ralph Buonopane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Protective Effects ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury

Objective: Cross-sectional studies and prospective studies with long follow-up periods (e.g., years) have shown that lower levels of social support are associated with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents. This study examined how short-term changes in social support may contribute to NSSI behavior and whether different sources of support (e.g., friends, family members) provide differential protective effects against NSSI. Methods: We examined fluctuations in NSSI and social support perceived from multiple sources among a sample of 118 high-risk adolescents hospitalized for serious self-harm risk. Participants provided daily reports of social support and any self-injurious behavior for the duration of their inpatient treatment (721 total observations, average observations per participant = 6.11). Multi-level models were used to assess variability in social support and how these fluctuations relate to whether or not an individual engages in NSSI. Results: Over one-third of participants reported engaging in NSSI at least once during inpatient hospitalization and self-reported social support varied considerably within-person across sources of support. Support perceived from family members and inpatient unit staff was inversely associated with NSSI, but no relationship was found between NSSI and support from other patients on the unit or friends outside of the unit. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the protective effects of social support for NSSI vary over short periods of time and that support perceived from adults is particularly relevant among this high-risk clinical sample. This study represents an important step in identifying risk factors to improve the detection and prevention of NSSI among adolescent inpatients.

Preventing lead poisoning

1926 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1181-1182
Author(s):  
E. Board
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Lead Poisoning ◽  
The Other

The author recommends that workers at risk of inhaling or ingesting lead be given the following solution for this purpose: magn. sulph. 0.95, Na sulph. 1.25, as. sulph. 0.38, as. sulph. arom. 0.003, water in an amount of 100.0 per 13 g of mixture. Half of this solution is used to rinse the mouth, the other half is taken per os.

To Support and Defend

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-187
Author(s):  
Juliane Hammer
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
The One ◽  
Muslim Communities

This chapter highlights Muslim service providers of many kinds and the organizations in which they work. Muslim service providers, in different ways from advocates and community leaders, not only are at the front lines of the struggle against domestic violence (DV) in Muslim communities but also most directly and persistently interact with the mainstream DV landscape/movement. Service providers are at risk themselves in more acute ways as their direct contact with victims and survivors can also become contact with perpetrators who are a threat not only to DV victims but also to anyone who supports those victims. The chapter then explores the significance of their religious convictions and identities for the work they perform and for the ways in which they relate to their clients on the one hand and to “the system” on the other. It also sketches the landscape of Muslim DV services and offers some insights into the specific challenges this work entails.

Fanconi Anemia: Prenatal Diagnosis in 30 Fetuses at Risk

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 794-800
Author(s):  
Arleen D. Auerbach ◽  
Michal Sagi ◽  
Barbara Adler
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Prenatal Diagnosis ◽  
Fanconi Anemia ◽  
Chorionic Villus ◽  
Chromosome Breakage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chorionic Villus Sampling ◽  
Chromosomal Breakage ◽  
Born Infant ◽  
In Cells

We report our experience, since 1978, with prenatal diagnosis in fetuses at risk for Fanconi anemia. Amniotic fluid cells from 30 fetuses from 24 families were monitored for baseline and diepoxybutane-induced chromosomal breakage. Seven of the fetuses at risk were diagnosed as affected; baseline and diepoxybutane-induced breakage ranged from 0.18 to 0.45 and 0.69 to 0.96 breaks per cell, respectively. The range of baseline and diepoxybutane-induced chromosomal breakage in amniocytes from the 23 pregnancies at risk that were diagnosed prenatally as unaffected ranged from 0 to 0.08 and 0 to 0.13 breaks per cell, respectively. Four of these cases were also diagnosed as normal on the basis of chromosomal breakage studies in cells obtained by chorionic villus sampling. The range of baseline and diepoxybutane-induced breakage in cells from five control fetuses was 0 to 0.05 and 0 to 0.10 breaks per cell, respectively. Of the pregnancies diagnosed as affected, two were carried to term, whereas five were terminated. One newborn and two abortuses had congenital malformations including abnormalities of the thumb and radius. The other affected live-born infant, now 5½ years old, has severe growth retardation and pancytopenia. No Fanconi anemia-associated malformations were found in any of the other fetuses or newborns studied. In all cases in which tissue was available for study, diagnoses were confirmed by chromosome breakage studies. This method thus permits reliable detection of Fanconi anemia.

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