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Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argues.

According to a recent national survey commissioned by the Business Council of Canada and conducted by Ipsos, Canadians themselves are nearly unanimous in wanting to see this country's companies held to the highest ethical standards, both at home and abroad (93 per cent agree).

The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just war theory» much of it conducted in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and ethical sophistication.

Since it is only faith in the power of Christ that saves, the level of ethical conduct is secondary at best.

As the ethical and regulatory oversight of Golden Rice - related research conducted at other institutes has recently been questioned, some might wonder about how other Golden Rice - related research is conducted.

For now, at least until the air is cleared of the great cloud brought over Albany by Preet, the governor has all the moral authority of a suspected pickpocket to dictate ethical conduct to legislators, and they know it.

The recommended rules, announced during the Gaming Commission's meeting on Monday, stemmed from their own review of an undercover investigation that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, conducted in 2013 at Saratoga Race Course.

A new book by reporter James Risen of The New York Times alleges that APA, the largest U.S. professional association of psychologists, bent its ethical guidelines to give psychologists permission to conduct such interrogations at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.

Some DNA program efforts can raise complex legal and ethical questions, however, and Jennifer Wagner, a 2014 - 2015 AAAS Congressional Fellow and former research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies, and Sara Katsanis, an Instructor of Science & Society at Duke University, are conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups around two such programs to learn more about the perspectives of the people involved and to develop «best practices» guidelines.

«Our prosocial and altruistic impulses play a very important role in sustaining complex societal structure,» explained Giorgia Silani, the principal investigator of this research conducted at SISSA and now a researcher housed in University of Vienna, «However, studying altruism and its neural basis in lab - based environment poses unique ethical challenges.

Although the statistics on the failure rate of human fertilization are not entirely robust, given the biological and ethical delicacy of conducting research in this area, the numbers consistently suggest that, at minimum, two - thirds of all human eggs fertilized during normal conception either fail to implant at the end of the first week or later spontaneously abort.

«Due to the scientific value and ethical dispute of this study, we not only conducted scientific peer - review, but also consulted related publishing and ethical experts,» wrote Rao, a structural biologist at Nankai University in Tianjin, in an e-mail to Science.

Although internal investigations of the kind that might be triggered by the issues that have been raised are confidential, we want to emphasize that matters of integrity in research are at the core of our mission and we are committed to ensuring that all research conducted under the auspices of Johns Hopkins University are conducted to the highest ethical and scientific standards.

Four U.S. representatives — prompted by an aggressive ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which claimed that baby rhesus macaques at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development lab of Stephen Suomi were being ripped from their mothers at birth and being mentally traumatized — called on NIH to conduct a bioethical review of the lab.

We received ethical approval from the responsible conduct of research department at Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee at UCI also has reviewed the project and will ensure that experiments involving embryonic stem cells serve important research goals and are conducted according to the highest ethical standards.

Mats Hansson is the director of the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at the University of Uppsala and has conducted extensive research in biomedical ethics as principal investigator in multi-disciplinary research projects dealing with issues ranging from ethical, social and legal aspects of the implementation of genetic diagnosis in clinical practice and the use of human tissue materials in research, to clinical and medical ethics.

Employees of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are dedicated to upholding the highest standards for patient safety and the ethical conduct of research.

Research projects conducted - or to be conducted - at the IGC have been approved by - or will be submitted to - the local IGC ethical committee and in addition to the Portuguese official veterinary department.

An investigation related to this research has been conducted by the Expert Group for Misconduct in Research at the Swedish Central Ethical Review Board on behalf of Karolinska Institutet.

I am energetic woman, business owner, spiritual, high standards of moral and ethical conduct, several degrees... highest attained at the post graduate level.

This article has been written to hopefully encourage those entrusted with the care of vulnerable clients to look at how their behaviour may cross the boundaries of ethical conduct.

In 2000, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) conducted an undercover investigation at Neilsen Farms, a Kansas puppy mill.

Groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and HSUS (Humane Society of the United States, no direct affiliation with local humane societies) conduct major political lobbying at the state and federal levels and spend millions of dollars annually to promote their agenda and to elect candidates that favor their agenda.

All breeders are expected to conduct themselves in an ethical manner at all times.

What is at issue here is a conflict between the micro ethics of individual responsibility for responsible conduct of research and larger ethical issues associated with the well - being of the public and the environment.

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But the Texas Supreme Court overturned the decision, refusing to create a public policy exception to the at - will nature of a partnership for carrying out one's ethical obligations to report unethical conduct (such as overbilling).

«By introducing ethical principles and endorsing the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation, the Court aims at ensuring that the highest standards of honesty and professional conduct are abided with by all participants in the arbitration.

Although the respect of ethical rules is not strictly speaking the funder's responsibility, we had at heart to ensure that no unwelcome claims of unethical conduct could ever taint our involvement in a dispute.

[81] The duty of lawyers to avoid conflicting interests is at the heart of both the general legal framework defining the fiduciary duties of lawyers to their clients and of the ethical principles governing lawyers» professional conduct.

At all times, the fee and cost arrangement must be in compliance with the rules of ethical conduct applicable to attorneys.

Based on my research so far, my working thesis is that the «do justice» ethic for prosecutors is at best unhelpful in creating ethical conduct, and at worst is toxic for prosecutorial ethics.

Fortunately for many doc review attorneys, software hasn't completely eliminated the need for human reviewers, and predictive coding raises at least two important issues for attorneys: (1) their legal obligations to conduct a reasonable search for responsive documents under federal discovery rules, and (2) their ethical obligation to safeguard a client's privileged information.

Luckily for ethics purposes, we need only look at the professional conduct rules to see the ethical duty the criminal defense attorney, as well as the civil defense attorney would need to follow to avoid violating any rules.

That approach, in my view, would have required consideration of: (i) the high standard of conduct expected of [the plaintiff] given the responsibilities and trust attached to his senior management position; (ii) the essential conditions (characterized as «core values») of integrity and honesty in his employment contract, including the requirement in the Code «to act in an honest and ethical manner at all times» (emphasis added); and (iii) his deliberate concealment of his actions which he later acknowledged to have been wrong and unethical.

The discussion paper recommends rules of conduct aimed specifically at the use of social media, as such rules «may increase awareness regarding the ethical considerations prevailing and may help deter behavior that is inappropriate for judicial officers».

Her project looks at the links between research and practice by considering all three components that serve as guidance for family law lawyers when dealing with ethical challenges in family law ADR: codes of conduct and professional standards, academic research, and ethics in practice.

These advertisements have violated the codes of ethical conduct, and if condoned as an individual scenario, will have collective ramifications for the legal profession at large.

«Like Trusted Choice ® agents, Beacon Mutual is dedicated to its policyholders and to treating them with respect and courtesy as persons and business partners, not just as policies, and to conducting company business in an ethical manner at all times,» continues Rosati.

In addition to the general constraints of conducting research in an applied setting, program evaluations pose special obstacles for researchers because of the clinical and ethical issues involved in withholding treatment or wait - listing participants who clearly might benefit from the program (i.e., at - risk students, low - income families).

A brief definition of VUE is: a) anything that has at least a 50/50 chance of making everybody some money; b) anything that has at least a 50/50 chance of enabling them to stay out of trouble (the courts, Business practices and arbitration committees, ethical standards and conduct, co-operation with other Realtors); c) Technology training (review of money making products and / or programs, which will make a salesperson's life easier and are at the same time income tax deductible).

I'm currently not a member of ORE, but it is clear that I still care more about the correct ways and means of conducting the moral, ethical and legal aspects of the real estate transaction business than do you, otherwise I would not be bothered with real estate issues which do not directly concern me at this time.