buying and selling human organs is among the newly-arisen jurisprudential issues, about which the imāmī jurists have opted two theories in response to this issue. some of them have regarded the situational decree of buying and selling human organs as invalidity according to the traditions comprising of the contents invalidating the purchase of dead animal and the consensus on it, and have viewe...

This review article provides a new perspective on the ethics of green nudging. We advance model for assessing ethical permissibility nudges (GNs). On this model, which normative guidance policymakers, GN is ethically permissible when intervention (1) efficacious, (2) cost-effective, and (3) advantages (i.e. reducing environmental harm) are not outweighed by countervailing costs/harms nudgees). ...

the present paper measures natural radioactivity in different areas of wassit governorate, using (hpge) detector. gamma spectrum analysis for each sample along with caululated specific activity show that the average concentrations of u-238, th-232, and k-40 have been 19.420±4.7 bq/kg, 18.487±5.05 bq/kg, and 204.266±46.9 bq/kg respectively, which is lower than the worldwide average value. while ...

The present paper measures natural radioactivity in different areas of Wassit governorate, using (HPGe) detector. Gamma spectrum analysis for each sample along with caululated specific activity show that the average concentrations of U-238, Th-232, and K-40 have been 19.420±4.7 Bq/kg, 18.487±5.05 Bq/kg, and 204.266±46.9 Bq/kg respectively, which is lower than the worldwide average value. While ...

The present paper measures natural radioactivity in different areas of Wassit governorate, using (HPGe) detector. Gamma spectrum analysis for each sample along with caululated specific activity show that the average concentrations of U-238, Th-232, and K-40 have been 19.420±4.7 Bq/kg, 18.487±5.05 Bq/kg, and 204.266±46.9 Bq/kg respectively, which is lower than the worldwide average value. While ...

Ethical considerations for the use of unregistered interventions for Ebola virus disease have sparked considerable debate among academic and clinical ethicists. In August 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a panel of experts to discuss approaches to the outbreak in West Africa, with the goal of determining "whether it is ethical to use unregistered interventions with unknown adve...

n this issue of theJourna1 of Law, Medicine &Ethics, Peter Clark provides a comprehensive and sound ethiI cal analysis of clinical trials examining the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease with fetal tissue transplantation.' These studies raise profound questions about how clinical trials of surgical interventions ought to be conducted. At stake is not only the ethical basis of such trials...

Predation causes a lot of suffering in the wild. Yet, a lot of people believe it is morally permissible. This article presents an ethical principle that justifies (condones) predation without referring to anthropocentric notions such as moral agency or species membership. The moral intuition that predation is permissible is coherent with other intuitions about harmful behaviors in the wild, suc...

This paper investigates the appropriateness of LP-based reasoning to machine ethics, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that emerges from the need of imbuing autonomous agents with the capacity for moral decision making. The first contribution of the paper is that of identifying morality viewpoints, as studied in moral philosophy and psychology, which are amenable to computational modeling, ...