Shelter Cats: From Admission to Adoption—Ethical and Welfare Concerns

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Sara Fragoso
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Right ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Way

Abstract Despite the growing popularity of cats as pets, many cats end up housed for long periods of time in shelters. These shelters are increasingly under the spotlight by local communities in the way in which they deal with problematic issues, for they may be seen as an example or as target of criticism. In regards to cat (re)homing there are several relevant welfare and ethical issues. Shelters should have a proactive and well-defined strategy to improve welfare and reduce the number of sheltered cats. Those with the authority to make decisions should consider the available resources and hold in perspective the viewpoints of others, especially that of the cat. The challenge is to avoid judgments based on our own quality of life standards which may lead to decisions based on emotional factors to manage the situation. Is it moral for humans to poses the power to determine a cat’s fate? Despite not having an answer for what is the right solution, the way to proceed should be clearly defined. If there is a strategy and a plan, there is an opportunity to readjust and improve. What are the main reasons for all these problems? Most of the related questions don’t have direct answers. However, instead of reacting in order to solve the problem, we should proactively focus on prevention, mainly through population control and education, knowing that what seems good and right at that moment might be considered wrong and obsolete in a near future, in the light of the development of scientific knowledge and societal values.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence in Radiology—Ethical Considerations

Diagnostics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian P. Brady ◽  
Emanuele Neri
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Substantial Benefit ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Way

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to change much about the way we practice radiology in the near future. The power of AI tools has the potential to offer substantial benefit to patients. Conversely, there are dangers inherent in the deployment of AI in radiology, if this is done without regard to possible ethical risks. Some ethical issues are obvious; others are less easily discerned, and less easily avoided. This paper explains some of the ethical difficulties of which we are presently aware, and some of the measures we may take to protect against misuse of AI.

What Future for the Right to Buy?

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Munro ◽  
A Littlewood
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Influence Analysis ◽  
House Condition ◽  
The Right ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Right To Buy

In this paper evidence from the 1991 Scottish House Condition Survey is used to analyse the extent to which, after over fifteen years of continuing sales under the right to buy, there still remains further scope for sales under this policy. The authors confirm that there are continuing cohorts of people who express a desire to buy in the near future. Multivariate analysis indicates that the motivation to buy is chiefly created by the households' economic circumstances, but family characteristics, the type and perceived quality of the house, and rent levels also exert an independent influence. Analysis also suggests that the responses to the relatively hypothetical questions about future intentions appear to be consistent both with aggregate outturns and with the expected characteristics of possible purchasers.

scholarly journals Specific Business and Management Challenges in Globalised World: Opportunities and Recommendations

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
MA. Arben Salihu
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
The Way

Globalisation is continually shaping the way we live, we travel and also the way and structure we work. It is generally acknowledged that there are a number of fundamental factors that play a crucial role in the business life cycle. Management is one of the main pillars of the organization because it provides direction, implementation, and coordination, so that organizations can attain their goals. An organisation’s life depends heavily on the quality of management. If there is any lack within the management element, it may severely limit an organisation’s existence. It is thus imperative to put all the elements in the right shape and place. Yet still this may be insufficient, due to ever growing competitiveness. Vision, strategy and innovation are fundamental in business enterprises but there are other issues related that have an effect to the management and need careful consideration. This study lists a number of specific challenges (namely leadership, innovation and human resources) that businesses and management is encountering and ought to be facing in several decades to come, and offers recommendation to the topics brought forward

PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ADOPTING INDUSTRY 4.0 IN CAD SYSTEMS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A Muñoz ◽  
R. Pérez Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Ship Design ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Complete Life Cycle ◽  
Cad Cam ◽  
The Right ◽  
Technological World ◽  
Cloud Applications ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Way

Technologies are evolving faster than our ability to assimilate what we can do with them, but the potential is clear and the opportunity will be for those who identifies the right application of each technology. In the information era, we are literally swimming in an ocean of structured and not structured data and thanks to the evolution in the communications technologies, all that data are available everywhere for everyone. But data is not information. It is necessary to have the capability to analyse, extract conclusions and learn from it. Technologies as Big Data (BD) and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) are crucial for this purpose, but the intention of the treatment matters. Imagine how these technologies shall allow to engage the ship design by applying rules which will facilitate the design significantly, how the integration of the validation of the structural models by the Classification Societies will be linked directly by cloud applications. Imagine all the benefits of this two simple examples that can be implemented thanks to the potential of these technologies. The concepts that are absolutely clear from now to the future in shipbuilding is the use of Data Centric model and the concept of Digital Twin, a real and effective synchronization between what we design, what we construct, by covering the complete life cycle of the product thanks to technologies like IoT. It is important to understand how the new generations are immersed in a technological world in constant and rapid evolution. The way they interacts with this ecosystem will determine the way we should define the new rules of the CAD/CAM/CIM Systems. This paper examines different selected solutions describing practical use cases in ship design phase as an example of what IoT, BD or AI will represent for ship design and shipbuilding in the near future.

Higher education—triumph of the knowledge-intensive society?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
The Arts ◽  
World Class ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The Right ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Way

‘Be something great’ and ‘fast track to top jobs’ were two headlines in advertisements for education that caught my eye some time ago. The specific message was that a specific school was offering a route to success and a brilliant career. In other words, education paves the way for success in life. With the passing of time, this has become a well-established truth. There are no other options—unless you have exceptional talents in the arts, sports, or the entertainment context. Fantasies and hopes for an outstanding career are encouraged on a broad front. The higher education sector has developed rapidly, even exploded, in recent decades and so have promises of a fantastic career resulting from a degree of the right kind and at the right place. In one UK university, the business school building is plastered with large posters claiming that ‘We create world-class minds’. And a Swedish university, located in a remote part of the country and with difficulties in recruiting faculty members and students, advertises heavily, claiming ‘research and education in world class’. If an institution is not ‘world class’ it is often described in terms of ‘excellence’. At my own university a few years ago, I saw a poster headed ‘Do you want to be President or Group CEO?’ for a course in commercial law specially designed for people who expect to reach the top in the near future. Since the target group consists of students, and most of them will probably have to bide their time for a decade or two before they can put ‘President’ or ‘Group CEO’ on their business cards, we may conclude that the department in question has realized the value of a long-term approach, and is assuming that many students have a high estimation of their potential. Perhaps education institutions support such more or less realistic self-images and career aspirations. If the department in question succeeds in recruiting a large number of students, it is perhaps primarily the less realistic self-images that will be reinforced. At a more collective level, education is now also considered to pave the way for national greatness.

Slow Reading: Reflections on Jasmine Ulmer’s “Writing Slow Ontology”

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 790-797
Author(s):  
James Salvo
Keyword(s):  
The Right ◽  
The Way

To cite a text is to read it. A citation asserts that I’ve read what I cited. But more importantly, the way we cite indicates the quality of our reading. To have the right to use a text, we must fully engage with it. When our disposition seeks error, we miss the truth of the text. It’s within this spirit that I engage with Jasmine Ulmer’s “Writing Slow Ontology.” At bottom, slow writing deserves slow reading.

scholarly journals Functioning of Public Internal Audit in Albania

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 1047-1056
Author(s):  
Hysen Muceku ◽  
Kreshnik Bello
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Internal Auditors ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Right

Internal audit is an important tool in helping senior management of organizations to find the right solutions in meeting the objectives. Through findings and recommendations, auditors provide assurance and advice on the management of internal control systems, risk and governance. The management of public organizations in Albania still has an incomplete conception and a low level of awareness on the role of contemporary internal audit services. This is firstly related to the quality of audit activities, where in significant cases the quality of this service is assessed to be not at the levels required by contemporary standards and practices, and secondly to the lack of recognition and misuse of these services by many administrators of public organizations. The aim of this research is to determine the state of capacity of public administration employees in the field of internal audit, in public organizations in Albania and give the right recommendations for the development of these capacities in order for the internal audit service to become a powerful tool in the hands of managers to achieve their objectives by adding value to the organization. The methodology used for the research has its own dimensions such as: specification of research subjects and sampling, tools used for research, implementation plan, ethical issues, presentation of research findings, etc. The research is based on primary and secondary data collection. The research is based on the testing of the Hypothesis, H0. The practical implications of this paper consist in the fact that: this is an in-depth study of the problems faced by the internal audit activity in public sector organizations in Albania. The conclusions and recommendations given to address these issues will add value to the management of these organizations, by helping managers reconsider their roles and responsibilities in order to strengthen the Internal Control System, and to make it a powerful tool in meeting their objectives. They also serve internal auditors to improve their practical activities. The paper is original, as so far in Albania no other studies with these dimensions have been conducted in this field, and it also has both theoretical and practical value for researchers, internal auditors and managers of the field.

scholarly journals The Right to Cyborgization in Slovenia

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Blaž Ivanc
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Organism ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Technological Interventions ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

The article deals with the legal aspects of the phenomenon of cyborgization. There is a structured debate about legal and ethical admissibility of the use of scientific and technological interventions in the field of biomedicine, by which we transform or supplement the functioning of the natural human organism in the direction of an increasingly artificial human being. In the discussion, we ask ourselves, to what extent or in what sense it’s possible to talk about the right of a person to cyborgization. After discussing the typology of scientific and technological interventions or technologies that can be classified in the field of cyborgization, the discussion draws attention to ethical dilemmas. First, it identifies the distinction between medically indicated interventions, which means cyborgization, and medically unindicated. In the next step, the discussion deals with the distinction between cyborgization interventions, which must be controlled from the point of view of ethics, and other interventions. It tries to define the typology of existing or future unethical and unlawful interventions. Finally, the discussion opens the questions on the way, content and approach to the legal regulation of the phenomenon of cyborgization and attempts to assess the quality of the current legal regulation of that area.

The adaptation of design thinking in auditing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda MEIJER-WASSENAAR ◽  
Diny VAN EST
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

How can a supreme audit institution (SAI) use design thinking in auditing? SAIs audit the way taxpayers’ money is collected and spent. Adding design thinking to their activities is not to be taken lightly. SAIs independently check whether public organizations have done the right things in the right way, but the organizations might not be willing to act upon a SAI’s recommendations. Can you imagine the role of design in audits? In this paper we share our experiences of some design approaches in the work of one SAI: the Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA). Design thinking needs to be adapted (Dorst, 2015a) before it can be used by SAIs such as the NCA in order to reflect their independent, autonomous status. To dive deeper into design thinking, Buchanan’s design framework (2015) and different ways of reasoning (Dorst, 2015b) are used to explore how design thinking can be adapted for audits.

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