... days ofthe operation ofthe black markets, in tandem with existing ethnic mixtures, MaeSot saw the trend of domestic migration from other areas of Thailand to MaeSot for border trade As the ... many changes to the lives of my former informants andthe landscape ofMaeSot Many of them were now staying in MaeSot where the presence of alien people has become more prominent Therefore, I ... find the debates revolving around “borders” andthe degree of their openness In other words, the issue of borders has been the dominant theme in the discourses of globalization regardless of theoretical...
... is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law, University of Manchester MATTI ¨ HAYRY is Lecturer, University of Iceland, in Privacy Law at the Faculty of Law, and in Computer Security and Cryptography ... deal with these theoretical tasks and to reach the objectives of ELSAGEN, five workpackages were formed The following is a brief description of these workpackages and a summary ofthe main lessons ... between them and ethical, legal and social scholars about these issues It is also important to consult the public, of course The concluding chapter of this book deals with the question of how the...
... recall the aim ofthe fourprinciples approach In the words of Raanan Gillon, the foremost advocate ofthe principles in England, they are supposed to provide ‘elements of common moral language and ... place the protection of privacy in the hands of social institutions rather than individuals, or to regulate business and public institutions in this regard The European attitude on the other hand ... achieved by the openness and transparency ofthe system, and by the honesty and clear accountability ofthe individuals working within it.9 In social democracies, it can also be maintained that the political...
... understanding of people’s perceptions of privacy and their trust in the guardians of biobanks andthe institutions setting them up and regulating them The UK team felt that the findings of this existing ... connection with the HSD andthe form ofthe Act A large number of articles, by Icelandic specialists as well as by people from other countries, have been written about the HSD andthe passing ofthe HSD ... in the strict maintenance ofthe boundary between public good and private profit In 2002 the HGC published the results of their consultation on the issues relating to handling and storage of...
... at the University of Tartu, also one ofthe main founders ofthe genome project and a board member ofthe EGP As such, Metspalu appeared as one ofthe main spokespersons and promoters ofthe ... Gibbons and Dr Andrew Smart for their assistance in developing some ofthe ideas in this chapter andthe ELSAGEN law team for increasing my knowledge ofthe law in each ofthe jurisdictions ofthe ... implementation ofthe first phase ofthe EGP At the same time, a large share of media coverage was devoted to the introduction of technical details concerning the logistics and storage of gene samples On the...
... nature of genetic information, but targets solely the protection ofthe individual interests ofthe donor The Estonian Gene Bank contains the names, dates of birth and blood relationships ofthe ... not the interest that the employer wants to protect is proportionate to the violation ofthe integrity ofthe employee On the other hand, neither in the UK nor in Sweden has there been any evidence ... to protect the interests ofthe biobank The Board therefore criticized the representatives ofthe biobank for being more compliant with the police and prosecutor than was necessary and for not...
... opens the way for the consideration ofthe interests of other family members in the data on their relative, which raises the question whether consent will be required from the family or other ... level there are different understandings of ethics andthe appropriate role and resourcing of research, and indeed ofthe concept of global public goods itself Our argument proceeds by outlining the ... but not the content ofthe consent that is required for research use of biological material This has been further defined in the Code of Practice ofthe Human Tissue Authority.5 Therefore there...
... best use of money), governanceofthe project, aims ofthe project, scientific value ofthe project (reliability ofthe data) andthe perception ofthe public Trust 195 In order to create and maintain ... living Icelanders are for instance listed in the Book of Icelanders, which is a database containing the genealogical information of 95% ofthe Icelandic population since the settlement of Iceland over ... biotechnology in the UK has been caused by poor government handling ofthe emergence of BSE in cattle, by the one-sided attitude to the introduction of GM crops, etc On the other hand, there is a longer...
... a theoretical level – and whether the latter is even possible the ways in which the development ofand operation of biobanks give rise to questions about the existing repertoire of ethical theories ... reasonable in the standard type of context Understanding The purpose of disclosure is to help the subject understand the relevant information about the study before she decides whether to participate ... biobank project andthe legal system ofthe country in which it is based, and this is particularly significant in the case of larger scale projects The Icelandic Health Sector Database andthe Estonian...
... situations respect the views ofthe many rather than the views ofthe few The point of social studies is, within this model, to inform the authorities ofthe direction ofthe majority opinion The second ... fibrosis’ The concept ofthe gene is defined in many different ways depending on the purpose ofthe definition, and there is no single way to give a ‘correct’ definition ofthe gene Furthermore, the ... idea of democracy If it is sufficient that the concerns ofthe majority are, by and large, adequately addressed, then the present legal situation is acceptable If, on the other hand, the views of...
... Commission, 2003 Council of Europe Explanatory Report to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity ofthe Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention ... 2003) Iceland Agreement Between the Minister for Health and Social Security and Islensk Erfdagreining Ehf Relating to the Issue of an Operating Licence for the Creation and Operation of a Health ... Dyson and Harris, Ethics and Biotechnology Etzkowitz, H., The Evolution ofthe Entrepreneurial University’, International Journal of Technology and Globalisation (2004), 64–77 Faden, R R., and...
... involved in the preperation ofthe mission statement for the authors Finally, we wish to thank the authors for their generous contribution to this project and their patience in the preparation of this ... Devolution, the Growth of Identity Politics in the UK andthe Unaddressed Question of a Union Identity 424 The Devolution Programme: A New Role for the Judicial Committee and Implications for the ... then Dean ofthe Faculty of Law, for his unfaltering support We also wish to thank the following contributors for their financial and logistical support: the McGill Faculty of Law, the Canadian...
... relative importance ofthe various kinds of data written to disk, both in terms of how much ofthe live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of how much ofthe data written to the log they represent ... delay the cleaning a while and let more ofthe blocks die in the current segment The value of a segment’s free space is based on the stability ofthe data in the segment Unfortunately, the stability ... writes, then reads the file back sequentially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth...
... very specialized audience State -of -the- art researchers need this kind of detailed mathematics to understand the theoretical implications ofthe work A basic premise of this book is that most practical ... word in the incoming audio signal is isolated and then analyzed to identify the type of excitation and resonate frequencies These parameters are then compared with previous examples of spoken ... away at the speed of light Aircraft in the path of this wave will reflect a small portion ofthe energy back toward a receiving antenna, situated near the transmission site The distance to the object...
... patterns Whether these are activated depends on the social demands placed on the individual by the way of life of their community These determine the situational contexts evocative ofthe social ... see the rise of psychology andthe application of its psychometric methods to the study of social phobia The first scale for the measurement of social anxiety À the psychological construct at the ... if the above definitions ofthe two terms andthe distinctions drawn between them were of interest and perhaps of some clinical value, they would hardly be meaningful so far as research and theory...
... referral) may depend on the nature ofthe condition, whether the referral is for reasons of diagnosis and/ or treatment, the preference ofthe provider, andthe relationship between the providers Medical ... situation, that the point of referral may depend on the familiarity or relationship between the providers, and that the nature ofthe referral (e.g., amount and type of information accompanying the referral) ... group composed of both chiropractic and medical professionals The goals ofthe focus group were to explore the attitudes and experiences of medical and chiropractic clinicians regarding their patients...
... Department of State A few ofthe groups on the official list, however, are guerrilla organizations These include the FARC, the LTTE, andthe PKK To be sure, the FARC, the LTTE, andthe PKK engage ... communications, and so forth Whereas the skills ofthe elite terrorist commandos ofthe 1960s and 1970s were often limited to what they learned in training camp, the terrorists ofthe 1990s who ... justification for their killing of other Jews was that these killings demonstrated the consequences ofthe immorality of collaborating with the Roman invaders, and that the Romans could not protect their...
... criteria of good tests and theoretical ideas on test reliability and validity as well as achievement tests Chapter 3- The study is the main part ofthe thesis showing the context ofthe study andthe ... assessment ofthe test reliability and validity These conclusions are as follows: The test with chosen items is compatible with the aims ofthe courses andthe objectives ofthe syllabus andthe test ... kind of software in a server Before the examinations, the person who is in charge of preparing the tests will use the software to mix the test items in the item bank and print out the tests All the...