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Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry, 2nd Edition, empowers a new generation of built environment professionals to navigate the ethical challenges confronting them at every stage of a project, from the initial bid to its completion and beyond.

Despite years of heated social controversy over the use of human embryos in embryonic stem cell research, the caravan of stem cell science continues to proceed at an unrelenting pace all around the world. Bioethics and the Future of Stem Cell Research urges readers to look beyond the embryo debate to a much wider array of ethical issues in basic stem cell science and clinical translational research, including research involving adult and induced pluripotent stem cells. Insoo Hyun offers valuable insights into complex ethical issues ranging from pre-clinical animal studies to clinical trials and stem cell tourism, all presented through a unique blend of philosophy, literature and the history of science, as well as with Dr Hyun's extensive practical experiences in international stem cell policy formation. This thoughtful book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the science of stem cells and the practical and philosophical elements of research ethics

This is a practical guide on how to navigate thecomplexities of ethical leadership in sport, whilerecognizing the increasing pressure placed on individualsand organizations to win and be exemplaryrole models.While you and most leaders know right fromwrong, giving voice to your values isn't alwaysstraightforward. This book explores how to approachthe ethical decisions, dilemmas, and valuebasedconflicts that emerge for leaders in sportsorganizations in order to make good choices, drivea sound culture, and reduce the risk of going awry.The approach in this book is two-fold: Coachingto help you le

Why do leaders fail ethically? In this book, Terry L. Price applies a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of immorality in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders can know that a certain kind of behavior is generally required by morality but nonetheless be mistaken as to whether the relevant moral requirement applies to them in a particular situation and whether others are protected by this requirement. Price articulates how leaders make exceptions of themselves, explains how the justificatory force of leadership gives rise to such exception-making, and develops normative prescriptions that leaders should adopt as a response to this feature of their moral psychology

Corruption... How can policymakers and practitioners better comprehend the many forms and shapes that this social pandemic takes? From the delivery of essential drugs, the reduction in teacher absenteeism, the containment of illegal logging, the construction of roads, the provision of water and electricity, the international trade in oil and gas, the conduct of public budgeting and procurement, and the management of public revenues, corruption shows its many faces. The Many Faces of Corruption attempts to bring greater clarity to the often murky manifestations of this virulent and debilitating social disease. It explores the use of prototype road maps to identify corruption vulnerabilities, suggests corresponding "warning signals," and proposes operationally useful remedial measures in each of several selected sectors and for a selected sample of cross cutting public sector functions that are particularly prone to corruption and that are critical to sector performance. Numerous technical experts have come together in this effort to develop an operationally useful approach to diagnosing and tackling corruption. The Many Faces of Corruption is an invaluable reference for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers engaged in the business of development.

Disagreements about the morality of markets, and about self-interested behavior within markets, run deep. They arise from perspectives within economics and political philosophy that appear to have nothing in common. In this book, Daniel Finn provides a framework for understanding these conflicting points of view. Recounting the arguments for and against markets and self-interest, he argues that every economy must address four fundamental problems: allocation, distribution, scale, and the quality of relations. In addition, every perspective on the morality of markets addresses explicitly or implicitly the economic, political, and cultural contexts of markets, or what Finn terms 'the moral ecology of markets'. His book enables a dialogue among the various participants in the debate over justice in markets. In this process, Finn engages with major figures in political philosophy, including John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Michael Walzer, as well as in economics, notably Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and James Buchannan

This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts, and defence consultants. It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear utilization target selections (NUTS). The essays examine and assess the arguments for these and other positions on the spectrum of policy options, and elaborate the implications of this analysis for strategic policy and for the further pursuit of research into SDI, and other matters

"While every war is horrific and reflects the worst kind of human failure on all sides, reality indicates that, in an imperfect world, war will always exist. The challenge remains for national leaders and ordinary citizens to make every effort to wage war in a moral manner"--Provided by publisher

In The Ethics of Care, Fiona Robinson demonstrates how the responsibilities of sustaining life are central to the struggle for basic human security. She takes a unique approach, using a feminist lens to challenge gender biases in rights-based, individualist approaches.Robinson's thorough and impassioned consideration of care in both ethical and practical terms provides a starting point for understanding and addressing the material, emotional and psychological conditions that create insecurity for people. The Ethics of Careexamines "care ethics" and "security" at the the

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Program Committee -- Scientific Committee -- Organizing Committee -- DITTET 2021 Organizers -- DITTET 2021 Collaborates -- Contents -- Track on Artificial Intelligence -- An Overview on Cloud Services for Human Tracking -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Related Work -- 4 Implementation -- 5 Results -- 6 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- A New Algorithm to Generate Image Sets for Classification and Forecasting Problems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transformations -- 2.1 Removal of Transparency and Substitution of Background -- 2.2 Rotation -- 2.3 Size Reduction -- 2.4 Change of Perspective -- 2.5 Reduction and Repositioning -- 2.6 Contrast and Brightness -- 3 Proposed Algorithm -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Deep Learning Based Human to Human Interaction Detection Using Wireless Fidelity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Background of Channel State Information -- 4 Proposed Model -- 4.1 Input Phase -- 4.2 Feature Extraction Phase -- 4.3 Recognition Phase -- 5 CSI Dataset -- 6 Experimental Results and Discussion -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Estimating Time Lost on Semaphores with Deep Learning -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Traffic Flow Optimization -- 2.2 Traffic Simulators -- 3 Method -- 3.1 Single Layer Network -- 3.2 Multilayer Network -- 3.3 Residual Network -- 4 Experimental Results and Performance Evaluation -- 4.1 Dataset -- 4.2 Evaluation and Training Methodology -- 4.3 Comparison and Results -- 5 Conclusion and Future Works -- References -- One-vs.-One Mitigation of Intersectional Bias: A General Method for Extending Fairness-Aware Binary Classification -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 2.1 Fairness-Aware Binary Classification -- 2.2 Fairness Metrics -- 2.3 Intersectional Bias -- 3 Preliminaries -- 4 Method -- 4.1 Basic Idea of One-vs.-One Mitigation.