ethical issues in quantitative research methods

... determine how ethically prepared these students are to face the intricacies found in the business world This research will also provide insight to employers in developing further training for internal ... have in addition taken auditing courses These groups also will be given six internal auditing scenarios, representing ethical and unethical internal auditing situations used by Larkin (2000) in ... development and his/her ethical choice in resolving an internal auditing dilemma? Is there a difference in a student’s gender and his/her ethical choice in resolving an internal auditing dilemma? Is

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... contribute to engineering ethics It will provide detailed information on which ethical issues play a part in engineering design and how engineers decide about these issues This information should ... Peopeintereste indesign research and at engineering ethics mish be interested the 3 Trang 15Until now I have assumed that the reader knows intuitively what ethical issues are, Iwill now explain in ... engineers themselves think ate ethical issues, Engineers may or may not share this conception of ethical issues Even in cases that engineers do not consider an issue to be ethical, ifit is an ethical

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... MEDICINE AND GENE THERAPY: ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE CLINICAL CONTEXT 321 seem to be anything ethically problematic about physicians offering such an intervention to that individual, or that individual ... would support a presumption in favor of continuing the development of germline genetic engineering That is, we have argued that germline genetic engineering is not intrinsically morally objectionable ... distinctions in mind we can raise some additional ethics issues regarding gene therapy from a social point of view Is there anything intrinsically morally objectionable about gene therapy in any

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... 1990.Surveys in Social Research Allen and Unwin Table 4.7 From Research Methods in Social Relations, sixth edition, by Charles M Judd, Eliot R Smith and Louise H Kidder Copyright # 1991, Holt,Rinehart ... But working late atANU, designing and administering the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)population surveys, I came to see what a symbolic and interactional process inter-Qt work could be in practice ... 8viiTrang 9Using SPSS: Correlation and Regression 163Looking at CategoricalData 171Exploring Bivariate Categorical Data 171Example 6.3: Computing the contingency coefficient 174Inference: From

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... knowing Valentin's style of reasoning, leaves odd clues for Valentin to see, assuming that Valentin will observe things that not obviously look like clues Valentin's following of the `train of ... says that quantitative science involves two tasks, namely (1) investigating that the attribute of interest is in fact quantitative, and (2) devising procedures to measure the magnitude of quantitative ... Deduction, induction and abduction are quantitative They include or exclude meanings and include or exclude particular conclusions Evidence `adds up' Even guessing involves choices that include

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... particularly appealing to indus-tries involved in human persuasion The advertising industry trade journals at the beginning of the century, for example, made it clear that an standing of the psychology ... design Manipulating and controlling variables in social science research has itslimitations Hamlet was planning to intervene in people's lives to see howthey reacted This raises obvious issues about ... create brain-damaged people, for example, to see how brain damageaffects their driving behaviour In such cases we would be looking at choos-ing brain-damaged people after they had received the injuries

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... not straightforward in terms ofthe original labelling of the columns in Table 5.5 A simple rearranging orreframing of the data will assist in aiding the interpretation of the inter-action Table ... values in the distribution in descending order Draw avertical line to the right of these stems 3 For each score, record the leaf on the line labelled by its stem andarrange the leaves in increasing ... (or leading digits) in a distributionserve to sort the data; the remaining or trailing digits are used to display thedata The leading digits are also referred to as stems while the trailing digitsare

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... theoretical underpinning of the study. The data snooper may also find that the points on a scatterplot cluster into groups. This type of pattern may suggest that there are distinct groups of individuals ... representing a perfect linear association, all the points would lie on the line. If the relationship is curvilinear, the correlation coefficient can be mis- leading. Consider the scatterplot in Figure ... suggesting a strong linear association. But clearly the relationship is curvilinear, not lin- ear. This shows the importance of plotting your data as one way of checking that the underlying assumptions

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... presented research examples that used abduction, or guessing. However, not surprisingly, there is an element of guessing in the whole process of a research project. Indeed, abduction is involved in ... formats for reporting quantitative research findings. Table 2.3 provided an overview of the types of content that are addressed in both the design and reporting of quantitative research. But this ... summary of the findings of the research. It is here that the main findings relevant to the hypothesis or hypotheses are presented and, in some cases, additional information as well. It is in the results

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... vulnerable individuals identified in the study 6 Consider benefit-sharing or similar measures for commercially valuable research findings Trang 48FINAL THOUGHTSOCIAL JUSTICETrang 49Is it ethical ... manufacturer to invest in developing a targeted therapeutic Trang 28The Orphan Drug Act of 1983 defines an "orphan drug" as one affecting fewer than 200,000 persons in the U.S., and it gives incentives ... to provide warnings to the consumer?Are product labels, package inserts, or other types of warnings sufficient? Is there a danger in having too many warnings? Trang 122 LEARNED INTERMEDIARYCan

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... discussed in greater detail in Chapter 6 Also, some ideas may initially seem extremely interest-ing but become rather plain or uninspirinterest-ing on further investigation Some ideas are interesting ... rationale for identifying and using investiga-a pinvestiga-articulinvestiga-ar setting investiga-as investiga-a dinvestiga-atinvestiga-a-collection site (Minvestiga-arshinvestiga-all & Rossman, ... in your topics when searching for reference materi-als in indexes In fact, most online indexes provide users with a thesaurus to assist them in locating subject terms used to index material in

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... from inadequate training It can also include insufficient knowledge of the patient presenting, foregoing clinical examination in favor of imaging, duplicating examinations already undertaken, inadequate ... and incorporate findings of effectiveness research based on health outcomes Guidelines assist in avoiding inappropriate examinations IT-based orderentry decision support systems for requesting ... easons, including population dose, individual dose, financial and health economics Chapter | 7  Ethical Issues in Clinical Radiology 119 issues, and the appropriateness or justification of the examinations

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... may undermine a preexisting willingness to something perceived as in the overall public interest The second point is an ethical one, to the effect that that there is something intrinsically undesirable ... possibility of exploring ways of preventing it from continuing to arise Chapter | 19  Compensation or Bribery? Ethical Issues in Relation to Radwaste 371 in the future It tends toward an ongoing attempt ... means all, methods of public consultation involve dialogue and critical discussion Others simply involve eliciting currently held opinions and then entering these into a decision-making process

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... 1Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing: 6th Edition Test Bank – Guido Sample Guido, Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing, 6e Chapter 06 Question 1 Type: MCSA A nurse is leaving the parking lot ... little time as possible interacting with the patient and family so that there will be less chance of saying the wrong thing or performing in an incompetent manner 2 Provide care in a compassionate, ... Management of Care Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation Learning Outcome: 6.8 List the more commonly occurring intentional torts in health care settings and give an example

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... Unsurprisingly, uptake in these countries is high (as well as in Sweden and the US). In the UK it is much lower but rising (de Cock and 71HIV in pregnancy 4 HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening ... contravene existing guide- lines – in particular, the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, 1996) and the international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involv- ing human subjects ... 12: 21–6. UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998). Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in the United Kingdom. London:...

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... in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... now face a growing number of controversial issues involving human reproduction. To illustrate the variety of issues, consider the following three scenarios. In the Wrst case, involving a pregnant ... according to the view in question, infants lack a right to life. However, this is at odds with our moral intuitions, according to which infants have moral interests that deserve protection, including...

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... which 15 3Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning 9 Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Franc¸oise ShenWeld Centre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UK Introduction Although ... stimulating debate. 15 7Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Conclusion Cloning is only one example, among the many discussed in this chapter, of ethical dilemmas in the new reproductive ... pertinent. Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recognized in...

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... developmental morbidity in children less than 26 weeks gestation at 2.5 years of age. Pediatric Research 45: 259A. 34 5Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment interest at the time ... 21.1. Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates – in the presence of uncertainty. light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant ... be severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renal agenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days. Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treat- ment...

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... encounter. In what follows I describe diVerent methods of fetal termination in multiple gestation, and critique the terminology used in discussing these methods. The perspective I bring to this ... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p. 1). At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... (DiVerent feminist standpoints are supported by feminist standpoint theory, which I have described and defended in Mahowald, 1995a.) Within the context of that imperative, targeting some fetuses...

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... of research question, influences on the funding of some research projects (and not others), influences on the outcome of research (i.e., findings), and influences on the dissemination of research ... miners in terms of the “frame” of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing. That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been increasing ... more interesting if students address issues, pollutants, workplaces, and problems faced in their own communities. Such emphases will bring ethical issues “home.” Module 7: Ethical Issues in...

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