There is a considerable history of how medical research has been conducted in morally inappropriate, even devastatingly inappropriate ways. People have forced into serving as human subjects in research projects, deceived, risks not being disclosed or at least not fully disclosed to get people to volunteer but in the absence of full disclosure of risks, informed consent is not fully informed. But what to do if full disclosure of risks would scare people away from volunteering? The dilemma is that research is vitally important for continued progress in terms of medical technology and break-throughs while at the same time abiding by the strictest of ethical standards in terms of how research is carried out -- can we have it both ways? Does the importance of progress in terms of combating illnesses outweigh the importance of taking ethics seriously in terms of risks to the human subjects which are part of the means of reaching the goal of such progress -- a sure conflict between the utilitarian standard of doing what benefits the greatest number versus the Kantian ideal of respecting people and not simply using them to achieve a desired end. To those ends, do we offer incentives to get people to volunteer as human subjects of research projects; is that putting unfair pressure on the less affluent to agree; do we say let respect for the individual be damed given the importance of eradicating disease; do we put animals into service -- who cares if animals are put at risk so long as we humans derive a benefit in terms of finding treatments and cures for what ails us; do we make use of the findings of research immorally conducted -- why waste possibly important findings even though such was obtained in ethically improper ways or would doing so encourage further improperly conducted research to be undertaken again? Discuss these important issues raised by considerations of the ethics of medical research.
In: Nursing
1.) In order for data security systems to be effective, there must be a proper balance between what an individual is expected to divulge and another factor. What is this second factor?
a. what the security system costs and the known or projected benefits
b. what level of technology acceptance and user satisfaction is expected
c. what the size of the organization is relative to its external environment
d. what information employment and management decisions require
2.) Systems thinking views change issues within the framework of the entire organization.
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3) What is an essential component that is necessary for senior management prior to developing a downsizing strategy?
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The textbook discusses various mechanisms that influence the external supply of human capital. Which of the following is one of these influences?
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Human capital must be obtained from two sources. What are these two sources?
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In: Operations Management
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ASSIGNMENT :
IMHR DILEMMA: WHOM DO YOU SATISFY? EXPATRIATE OR
NATIONALS
Hi-Tech Electronics Limited was established in 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It produces and markets all types of electronics goods in most of the Asian and Pacific countries. It has been one among the top five companies as for the level of technology and one among the top three companies regarding marketing of the products in Malaysia. The company’s policy and practices concerning human resource management are top in the country. The company’s salary administration policies and practices were taken as guidelines not only by the other companies but also by various wage boards and pay commissions in the country. But this company has been struggling a lot because of a minor problem relating to administration of salary and benefits. The problem is stated hereunder.
The company employed nearly 400 national young graduate and post graduate engineers and 20 expatriate engineers. This employee forms the cream of the company’s present human resource. The expatriate employees occupied higher position in all the departments including Human Resource Department. The company’s salary policy and benefit policy were formulated mainly on the basis of the expatriate employee’s desire. The base salary of the company is the same for both the expatriate and national employees. But expatriate receive additional allowances like international market allowance, educational allowance, settling-in allowance, car allowance, housing allowance and entertainment allowance. Thus, expatriate receives nearly 250% more salary than the nationals doing the same job.
The national employees demanded the management to pay equally with that of expatriates immediately. According to them, the pocket frustrates them severely.
QUESTIONS:
1. Identify the crucial issue in this case.
2. From your opinion what are the 3 factors that
enables expatriate receives more salary than the nationals who are
doing the same job? Explain and justify your statements.
In: Operations Management
ASSIGNMENT
IMHR DILEMMA: WHOM DO YOU SATISFY? EXPATRIATE OR NATIONALS
Hi-Tech Electronics Limited was established in 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It produces and markets all types of electronics goods in most of the Asian and Pacific countries. It has been one among the top five companies as for the level of technology and one among the top three companies regarding marketing of the products in Malaysia. The company’s policy and practices concerning human resource management are top in the country. The company’s salary administration policies and practices were taken as guidelines not only by the other companies but also by various wage boards and pay commissions in the country. But this company has been struggling a lot because of a minor problem relating to administration of salary and benefits. The problem is stated hereunder.
The company employed nearly 400 national young graduate and post graduate engineers and 20 expatriate engineers. This employee forms the cream of the company’s present human resource. The expatriate employees occupied higher position in all the departments including Human Resource Department. The company’s salary policy and benefit policy were formulated mainly on the basis of the expatriate employee’s desire. The base salary of the company is the same for both the expatriate and national employees. But expatriate receive additional allowances like international market allowance, educational allowance, settling-in allowance, car allowance, housing allowance and entertainment allowance. Thus, expatriate receives nearly 250% more salary than the nationals doing the same job.
The national employees demanded the management to pay equally with that of expatriates immediately. According to them, the pocket frustrates them severely.
QUESTIONS:
3. What are the 4 factors affecting standardization of compensation packages for expatriate and nationals’ employees? provide mind map for more proper illustration.
4. Identify 4 challenges the company will face if they did not
fulfil the national’s employees demand.
In: Operations Management
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this assignment is to enable the students to enhance their knowledge on the environmental engineering and sustainable development for environmental engineering.
TASK 1 (DOCUMENTATION)
Development in science and technology has increase the level of human lifestyle which leads to technology advancement. However, everything good comes with a price. One of the greatest problems that the world is facing today is that of environmental pollution, increasing with every passing year and causing grave and irreparable damage to the earth as a results of the chemical by-products produced from a human activities. Nowadays, more than 700 emerging pollutants, their metabolites and transformation products, are listed as present in the European aquatic environment alone (www.norman-network.net). The presence of emerging contaminants, including pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), pesticides, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), in water bodies is a serious problem in many countries. However, the environmental fate of emerging contaminants and their behavior is largely unknown. They are presently not monitored in the environment but have a high potential of causing environmental damage and suspected detrimental effects on ecosystems and human health (Geissen et al., 2015).
The goverment of Malaysia is requesting the environmental consultant company you are currenly working to do a study on the impact of emerging pollutants to water suppy system in Malaysia. This study must include the current management apply to manage this pollutant. As a team leader you are required to prepare a documentation consist of:
requirement:
[TOTAL: 100 marks]
In: Civil Engineering
1)
Nadiya does very well on a psychology exam. According to research on the self-serving bias, Nadiya is likely to credit her success to all of the following except ______________________.
her intelligence
her teacherher talent in the field of psychology
her teacher
her hard work
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In Milgram’s obedience study, who played the role of “learner?”
a participant who was recruited through a newspaper ad
a computer program
a confederate
Milgram himself
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Travis wants to sell childhood toys that have been collecting in his garage. In order to do this, he posts several ads in local newspapers mentioning how rare the toys are and that they will only be available for a limited amount of time. Travis is using ___________.
the door-in-the-face technique
a technique based on scarcity
the foot-in-the-door technique
the bystander effect
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Which of the following compliance techniques works because it tricks our brain into believing another person has done us a favor by reducing what they are asking for?
low-ball
door-in-the-face
foot-in-the-door
that’s-not-all
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______________________ involves behaving in accord with a request, while ___________________ involves performing an action as the result of a direct order.
compliance; conformity
compliance; obedience
obedience; conformity
obedience; compliance
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The self-serving bias is _____________________________________.
only present in children under the age of 16
the human tendency to put one’s own needs before the needs of others
the human tendency to be louder when one is speaking about themselves than when they are speaking about other
the human tendency to take credit for success and avoid blame for failure
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___________________ is the scientific study of how a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior are affected by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others.
social psychology
social work
cognitive science
sociology
In: Psychology
We explored adult male infanticide in African lions in order to learn more about the ultimate causal logic of this behavior and of non-human animal social behavior more generally. Which of the following is the most accurate and complete statement of this ultimate logic?
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Infanticidal male lions are more likely to transmit copies of their personal design information in all social contexts wherein they find themselves. |
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Male lion infanticide evolves because it is likely to increase the average fitness of the local lion population by eliminating less fit individuals. |
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Infanticidal male lions are more likely to transmit copies of their personal design information in the specific circumstances where they are in head-to-head competition with non-infanticidal males lions. |
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Male lion infanticide occurs because individual males' evolved minds find this behavior highly gratifying. |
We explored the simple logic of "kin selection," a process central to understanding non-human animal social behavior (and some human behaviors, as we will shortly see). Which of the following is the most accurate and complete statement about the ultimate causal logic of kin selection? [Note that more than one answer might be a true statement without being the best answer to the specific question asked.]
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Kin selection results in the optimal level of cooperation for the benefit of the species of the animals engaging in such cooperation. |
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Kin-selective cooperation creates a situation in which two pieces of information that are recent copies of one another can mutually assist in each other's ongoing replication. |
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Kin selection results in the optimal level of cooperation for the benefit of the gene pool represented by the animals engaging in such cooperation. |
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Kin-selective cooperation creates a situation in which two individuals who are members of the same closely related family mutually assist each other's ongoing reproduction. |
In: Biology
Identify leadership topics Prior to the meeting, you will also
be required to identify potential topics for the leadership
conference by reviewing and analysing information from the report
Global Human Capital Trends 2017 at:
https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/human-capital/articles/global-human-capital-trends2017.html
Based on your interpretation of the information in the report,
identify at least two ideas for leadership topics. You should make
notes (handwritten or typed) to speak from at the meeting for two
proposed conference topics and that include: Proposed conference
topic title Summary of the content to be discussed.
When speaking about your ideas at the meeting, as a guide you will
speak for 1 to 2 minutes on each topic. Use the following example
to guide you in developing your ideas and making notes (this
example has not been taken from the above report, it is an example
only to help you write down your ideas).
Mindful Leadership: Becoming a Mindful Leader by the Application of
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Principles. ACT is an
evidence-based approach that has been applied to clinical and
organisational settings. When used as a leadership model, the
application of ACT principles can assist managers in increasing
work performance and innovation while reducing work stress and work
errors. The presentation will introduce basic ACT principles and
provide an introduction to the qualities of being and acting as a
mindful leader and person. Such qualities include empathy and
selfcompassion. This will be a practical session with the focus on
teaching and applying mindfulness techniques at work.
During the meeting, you need to be able to demonstrate that you can
identify and interpret information from complex texts. That is,
that you can identify two topics based on the information in the
report, and then summarise the information in your notes for
discussion at the meeting. The example above provides an indication
of the level of response required.
In: Operations Management
What is substrate-level phosphorylation
? What is oxidative phosphorylation
? Explain how cellular respiration produces ATP from molecules with high potential energy, such as glucose
? Describe the four components of cellular respiration? What goes into each and comes out of each?
? What is fermentation? How are cellular respiration and fermentation regulated?
? Describe how fermentation operates in the absence of the electron transport chain?
? What does cellular respiration do? What is the chemical equation? ? What is the role of the electron carriers NADH and FADH2
? What is the final electron acceptor of aerobic respiration?
? What is the difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration?
? What does the enzyme phosphofructokinase do and how is it regulated?
? What is acetyl CoA?
? Where do all of the processes involved in cellular respiration take place within the cell?
? What is ATP synthase and what is its role? ? What is cytochrome C and ubiquinone (Q)? What do these do?
? What is chemiosmosis and how does it generate ATP?
In: Biology
CATABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATED CAN BE DIVIDED INTO 4 MAIN STAGES
Stage 1 is ___________ which occurs in the __________-. At the end of stage 1 Carbohydrates have been converted to ______________.
Stage 2 for monosaccharides is formation of pyruvate which occurs in the ________. Formation of pyruvate from glucose is called ________________.
Under aerobic conditions, pyruvate moves to the mitochondria where it is converted to ____________, resulting in fewer ATP being produced.
Stage 3: involves a cycle of chemical reactions. Three common names for this cycle are:
citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle and Kreb's. The molcule ________ enters the Citric Acid Cycle. What are the products of the CItric Acid Cycle?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The electron carries (coenzymes) involved are derivatives of ______________ vitamins.
Stage 4: Electron Transport and Oxidative phosphorylation (oxphos) Reduced coenzymes carry ______ to ______ __________ ________ found in the inner membrane of the ____________. Electrons are transferred along carrier molecules. This helps set up a ______ gradient which used to power a large motor like enzyme called ATP synthase. This process accounts for 90% of the cell's _________ production.
In: Biology