Research Integrity

Mobile Agents Integrity Research

Mobile agents are an important technology in e-commerce systems and offer new possibilities for the e-commerce applications. This paper examines some mobile agent integrity protocols and proposes a new protecting protocol of mobile agent integrity. It can defend most known attacks, provides encryption transmission and route secrecy of mobile agents.

Professional integrity in clinical research.

In response to public concern over abuses in human medical experimentation, the dominant approach to the ethics of clinical research during the past 30 years has been regulation, particularly via institutional review board review and approval of scientific protocols and written consent forms. However, the effectiveness of regulatory mechanisms in ensuring the ethical conduct of clinical researc...

Research and scientific publication integrity.

Scientific integrity in research methods

Recent cases of research misconduct have prompted psychologists to suggest that there is too much vulnerability in the research process (e.g., Simmons et al., 2011; Pashler and Harris, 2012). Regardless of whether this is the case, ensuring the integrity of a discipline requires a clear understanding of what conventions and norms define the research process. In what follows, I consider the rese...

Scientific Misconduct and Research Integrity

R esearch integrity and a corollary scientific misconduct have received increasing attention in the literature in the last three decades. Most of the research conducted on scientific misconduct has been focused on principal investigators (PIs) and other scientists involved in the research enterprise. By virtue of their position, research coordinators (RCs), many of whom are nurses, are often cl...