Balancing responsibilities

The gambling take: balancing revenues and responsibilities.

Veterans' health care: balancing resources and responsibilities.

This paper looks at the health care benefits and services administered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It examines management strategies adopted within the department to allocate resources, structure benefits, and improve quality. Some recommendations made by the General Accounting Office and the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans are re...

Neuroethical responsibilities.

Neuroscience represents a dynamic area of biomedical research where neuroethical responsibilities for researchers are emerging. This paper is the companion piece to the French-language one also published in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. It serves as a review of recent advances in neuroethics through the lens of three cases: (1) incidental finding of anomalies in n...

Responsibilities in Organizations

This paper addresses the issue of responsibilities within organizations of agents. The main aim of the research is to provide a formal analysis of the connections between collective obligations to individual responsibilities. Which individual agent in a group should be held responsible if an obligation directed to the whole group is not fulfilled? To this aim, concepts from planning literature ...

Forgotten your responsibilities?

The online banking systems offered by the Lloyds Banking Group (including Bank of Scotland & Halifax) and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (including Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland & Ulster bank) are vulnerable to a remote attack which allows an adversary to commit financial fraud. The vulnerability has arisen as a result of poor software engineering practice which neglected security in favour...