background and purpose: professional ethics is one of the foremost components of every occupation. the ethical standards are essential to the improvement of quality of care. on the other hand, job satisfaction is a critical challenge for healthcare organizations. this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between compliance with professional ethics and job satisfaction among nurses. methods:...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. therefore, pharmacy practice i...

Why an Ethics Program?; How to Organize Ethics as a Program; Principles of Ethics; Strategies for Fostering an Ethical Organization; Adopt the Goal of Implementing an Ethics Program; Establish an Ethics Committee and Assign Operational Responsibility to an Ethics Officer; Adopt a Code of Ethics; Make the Ethics Program Visible; Establish a Reporting Mechanism; Conduct an Ethical Analysis; Consi...

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...

This talk is a rather sceptical review of our knowledge and understanding of deep inelastic scattering at low x ( high energy). We show that the well known success of the DGLAP evolution equations in describing of experimental HERA data brought more problems and puzzles than answers. We advocate that more systematic theoretical and experimental investigations of the nonperturbative QCD are need...

We propose an argumentation based explanation for query failure explanation under ICR-semantics in an Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) setting. We use a rule-based language and we base our work on the equivalence between ICRbased query answering in inconsistent knowledge bases and sceptical acceptance of arguments. We propose a multilevel explanation that exploits both the inference power of t...