Providing an Ethical Questionnaire in Research

Providing ethical guidance for collaborative research in developing countries

Experience has shown that the application of ethical guidelines developed for research in developed countries to research in developing countries can be, and often is, impractical and raises a number of contentious issues. Various attempts have been made to provide guidelines more appropriate to the developing world context; however, to date these efforts have been dominated by the fields of bi...

An Ethical Dilemma in Stem Cell Research

Every day engineers develop inventive, resourceful solutions to fix the newly discovered problems in society. Yet with every implemented decision comes benefits and repercussions. Engineers must understand both the national code of ethics and the code of ethics specific to their occupation in order to ensure that their proposed solution does not violate any rights protected within these ethical...

Providing free heroin to addicts participating in research – ethical concerns and the question of voluntariness

Providing heroin to people with heroin addiction taking part in medical trials assessing the effectiveness of the drug as a treatment alternative breaches ethical research standards, some ethicists maintain. Heroin addicts, they say, are unable to consent voluntarily to taking part in these trials. Other ethicists disagree. In our view, both sides of the debate have an inadequate understanding ...

An Ethical Theory of Action Research Pedagogy

Providing an Analytical Model in Determining Nanofluids

The influence of temperature, mean nanoparticle size and the nanoparticle concentration on the dynamic viscosities of nanofluids are investigated in an analytical method followed by introduction of modified equations for calculating the nanofluids’ viscosities. A new correlation is developed for effective viscosity based on the previous model where the Brownian movement of the nanoparticles is co...

An overview on ethical considerations in stem cell research in Iran and ethical recommendations: A review

Conducting research on the stem cell lines might bring some worthy good to public. Human Stem Cells (hSCs) research has provided opportunities for scientific progresses and new therapies, but some complex ethical matters should be noticed to ensure that stem cell research is carried out in an ethically appropriate manner. The aim of this review article is to discuss the importance of stem cell ...