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Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes : New Research Methods to Study…
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, many ethical transgressions in business get addressed. By illustrating and criticizing such transgression, jokes can serve as an example in a theoretical argument, as a prompt …
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- 978-3-031-10201-1
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- XIII, 101
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
This book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the implications for law and regulation. The five chapters examine the main forms of contemporary biometrics–fingerprint recognition, facial recognition and DNA identification– a…
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- 978-3-030-90256-8
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- IX, 99
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation : Organisational and Nationa…
This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough understanding of the different aspects of RRI, and of barriers and drivers of implementation of RRI related policies. It shows how different organisational and national context…
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- 978-3-030-57850-3
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- XIX, 120
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Human Challenge Studies in Endemic Settings : Ethical and Regulatory Issues
This open access book provides an extensive review of ethical and regulatory issues related to human infection challenge studies, with a particular focus on the expansion of this type of research into endemic settings and/or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Human challenge studies (HCS) involve the intentional infection of research participants, and this type of research is rapidly inc…
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- 978-3-030-41480-1
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- XVII, 134
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19 : How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?
This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 co…
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- 978-3-030-89125-1
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- XVI, 117
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific developments in the field of tuberculosis research, with an emphasis on diagnosis and treatment. It may serve as a practical resource for students, clinicians and researchers who…
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- 978-3-319-19132-4
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- VIII, 66
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC, volume 2)
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Indikatoren für die Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation : Stec…
Diese Open-Access-Publikation diskutiert unterschiedliche Ansätze zur Messung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation in Unternehmen, Hochschulen und staatlichen Forschungsinstituten. In Form von Steckbriefen beschreibt sie die wichtigsten Eigenschaften und Anwendungsgebiete von über 180 Indikatoren. Dabei werden die Gebiete, aus denen die Indikatoren stammen (Publikationen, Patente usw.), …
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- 978-3-658-32886-3
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- XVI, 246
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- FOM-Edition (FOMEDITION)
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Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. …
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- 978-3-030-96844-1
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- XII, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Crime and Safety in the Rural : Lessons from research
Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. Yet, there are many reasons why scholars, decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This book highlights 20 reasons why crime a…
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- 978-3-030-98290-4
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- XIX, 123
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police by the commun…
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- 978-3-319-89297-9
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- XII, 102
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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