Business processes are an important source for the engineering of customized software systems. In this context, the definition, monitoring, and enforcement of the duties associated with different tasks in a business process is one important factor to ensure compliance of an IT system with certain laws and regulations. In this paper, we present a UML2 extension for an integrated modeling of busi...

Prominent transhumanists Julian Savulescu, Ingmar Persson, and Thomas Douglas argue that moral enhancement could solve global poverty. They argue that by engineering individuals with better moral dispositions, they will have better motives, and therefore the will to act more morally. These morally enhanced individuals will more effectively discharge their duties regarding global poverty, thus l...

This article investigates the contribution of pension funds in harnessing power finance to achieve social and environmental objectives. After reviewing discussing potential main hurdles fund engagement Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), common law approach shareholder activism is contrasted with EU on sustainability-related disclosures taxonomies. Unlike US other jurisdictions, where duties...

Railway crew scheduling problem is the process of allocating train services to the crew duties based on the published train timetable while satisfying operational and contractual requirements. The problem is restricted by many constraints and it belongs to the class of NPhard. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model for railway crew scheduling with the aim of minimising the number of cre...

As humanity is facing a “triple planetary crisis” of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, it seems imperative to strive for an effective integration new international legal principles, rights, duties in environmental law. Following the recognition right clean, healthy, sustainable environment as human by UN Human Right Council (2021) General Assembly (2022), Covenant on Healthy Env...

Why do environmental health professionals strive to be Registered Environmental Health Specialists/ Registered Sanitarians (REHS/RS)? Why do engineers want to be Professional Engineers (PE); dieticians want to be Registered Dieticians (RD); industrial hygienists want to be Certifi ed Industrial Hygienists (CIH); and safety professionals want to be Certifi ed Safety Professionals (CSP)? You can ...

Epidemiology is a core science of public health, focusing on research related to the distribution and determinants of both positive and adverse health states and events and on application of knowledge gained to improve public health. The American College of Epidemiology (ACE) is a professional organization devoted to the professional practice of epidemiology. As part of that commitment, and in ...

This essay rebuts Gary Seay's efforts to show that committing euthanasia need not conflict with a physician's professional duties. First, I try to show how his misunderstanding of the correlativity of rights and duties and his discussion of the foundation of moral rights undermine his case. Second, I show aspects of physicians' professional duties that clash with euthanasia, and that attempts t...