Throughout the last decade, international donor community has developed a plethora of regulatory initiatives for responsible agricultural investments. It remains unclear how such guidelines are invoked in practice investment cases, and whether their use can prevent conflict protect local land rights, as promoted. Uncovering work necessitates an understanding formal-legal setting underlying tenu...

Counseling is a professional practice. As such, ethical standards have been delineated to describe the best practices of professionals and to ensure high quality of practice (Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2003). In countries where counseling has existed as a formal profession for some time, such as the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom, codes of ethics have been developed and periodically...

in this paper, we consider a class of column-weight two quasi-cyclic low-density paritycheck codes in which the girth can be large enough, as an arbitrary multiple of 8. then we devote a convolutional form to these codes, such that their generator matrix can be obtained by elementary row and column operations on the parity-check matrix. finally, we show that the free distance of the convolution...

Healthcare today requires the rapport of diverse professionals to give a comprehensive response to the needs and requirements of the population's health. Codes of ethics are the normative expression of secular reflection on the ethical values of the professions. In this study we aim to identify ethical values shared by various professionals codes of conduct and propose a method for evaluating t...

The discipline of medical ethics is concerned with morality, moral obligations and the principles of proper professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of a physician himself, his patients and fellow practitioners, as well as his actions in the care of patients and in relation with their families. Its foundations lie in the philosophical traditions of Eastern and Western thought and h...

In 2011 the National Heart Forum completed a commission from the UK Department of Health to conduct a mapping and consultation exercise on the marketing and promotion of food and drinks to children. One of the outputs was an analysis of the regulatory environment including statutory and self-regulatory rules and voluntary codes of conduct. The key findings and observations from this analysis ar...