Balancing Unbalanced Lives

Environmental Ethics: Balancing the Values of Current Lives, Future Lives, and Quality of Life

E ethics literature often argues that we should conserve the environment in order to (1) preserve the lives of future people and (2) provide future people with a basic level of quality of life. (For instance, see the writings of Barry, Bayet, and Naess.) But what must we give up in exchange? Garrett Hardin’s argument for lifeboat ethics implies that we should conserve the environment even if it...

The holistic healthcare executive: balancing personal and professional lives.

Analysis of Balancing of Unbalanced Rotors and Long Shafts using GUI MATLAB

Mining ICDDR, B Hospital Surveillance Data and Exhibiting Strategies for Balancing Large Unbalanced Datasets

This research uses a number of classifier models on Hospital Surveillance data to classify admitted patients according to their critical conditions. Three class labels were used to distinguish the criticality of the admitted patients. Furthermore, set forth are two distinct approaches to address the over-fitting problem in the unbalanced dataset since the frequency of instances of the class ‘lo...

The balancing act: key issues in the lives of women general practitioners in Australia.

OBJECTIVE To identify key issues affecting women general practitioners in their professional and non-professional lives. DESIGN A qualitative study using the Delphi technique, with three rounds of data provision circulated to each participant. Coding was used to ensure anonymity. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The participants were a purposive sample of 40 women GPs drawn from all Australian Stat...