Trampling on maritime Antarctica: can soil ecosystems be effectively protected through existing codes of conduct? Pablo Tejedo, Luis R. Pertierra, Javier Benayas, Peter Convey, Ana Justel & Antonio Quesada 1 Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/ Darwin 2, Madrid, ES-28049, Spain 2 British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross...

Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduct...

This paper examines two failed land acquisition processes for food and biofuels production in Africa with the aim to establishing more equitable governance strategies. More specifically it explores the roles of certification schemes and codes-of-conduct can play in these processes. The two cases used are the South Korean Daewoo Logistics case in Madagascar and the Swedish SEKAB in Tanzania. The...

It often has been argued that no technology is value-neutral. Therefore, one extension of the argument suggests that the power of geographic information system (GIS) technologies should be used for beneficial purposes. GIS should be used to enhance the quality of life, promote equity in access to knowledge for all members of society, reduce socio-economic gaps between members of the social syst...

Under the regime of private company or multi-stakeholder voluntary codes of conduct and industry social auditing, workers have absorbed low wages and unsafe and abusive conditions; labor leaders and union members have become the targets of both government and factory harassment and violence; and trade union power has waned. Nowhere have these private systems of codes and audits so clearly faile...

Information Systems Technology (IST) has an increasingly central role in today’s globalised information society. In this regard, it is imperative to recognise the impossibility of a technological life without ethics. As typical components for an ethics program, the authors use Codes of Ethics/Conduct/Practices (CE/CC/CP) as some professions (physicians, lawyers, etc.) have adopted them. The cod...

introduction: standard codes and their descriptions are important tools for research, design, implementation and evaluation of the injury control program and its sub-categories. methods: in this research the medical records of 735 patients diagnosed with injuries, burns or poisonings from teaching-hospitals of the iran, tehran and shahid beheshti medical universities (n=22) were selected to be ...

OBJECTIVE To develop a standard taxonomy for inpatient complaints that could be adopted in a wide array of health service institutions. DESIGN A taxonomy was developed by merging the coding schemes from eight prior studies of patient complaints, and then by revising the received coding scheme in light of the codes and clarifications that emerged from a content analysis of patient complaints. ...

Empirical performance optimization of computer codes using autotuners has received significant attention in recent years. Given the increased complexity of computer architectures and scientific codes, evaluating all possible code variants is prohibitively expensive for all but the simplest kernels. One way for autotuners to overcome this hurdle is through use of a search algorithm that finds hi...