An ethical ideologies model based on relativism and idealism was tested. Subjects judged the morality of an individual who produced a mildly or extremely positive or negative consequence by conforming to or violating a common moral norm. As predicted, an averaging model with differential weights accounted for situationists' (high relativism and idealism) and absolutists' (low relativism and hig...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the infant feeding experiences of women and their significant others from pregnancy until 6 months after birth to establish what would make a difference. DESIGN Qualitative serial interview study. SETTING Two health boards in Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 72 of 541 invited pregnant women volunteered. 220 interviews approximately every 4 weeks with 36 women, 26 partners, ...

Philosophy of education especially higher is central to making a discipline or subject rational regarding its study as well implication in human society. In this regard, the research an attempt examine philosophical foundation stated major western-liberal philosophies e.g. Idealism, Realism, Thomism, and Pragmatism. It also figured out strengths weaknesses basis western system. The argues that ...

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) marks a unique point in the history of global health governance. This convention produced the first legally binding treaty under the auspices of the World Health Organization. Another first was the extent to which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) participated in the negotiation process. This article explores the relationship between one gr...

In recent years society has come to expect more from the "socially-responsible" company and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in particular has resulted in some critics saying that the "Big Pharma" companies have not been living up to their social responsibilities. Corporate social responsibility can be understood as the socio-economic product of the organizational division of labor in complex moder...

While many seem to understand, in theory, the value of high-quality information, the realities of daily organizational dynamics may cause information quality projects to falter. In our conference paper last year, we described how Ingenix moved from ‘theory’ to an established Information Quality initiative, and how it laid the groundwork for its first and future information quality improvement p...