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The benefits and ethical challenges of targeted online advertising

Calls from telemarketers, mailboxes stuffed with coupons for products don't use, and dreary advertisements for things you don't need, from diapers to dentures: that was the bad old age of advertising.

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Primary health teams and health equity in Australia

Addressing Australia's healthcare needs on a population-wide basis calls for the involvement of a wide array of public agencies, private companies, research institutions and treatment facilities.

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HIPAA compliance requirements and consumer health privacy protections

Imagine studying the Health Information Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) from the perspective of a consumer. How are various agencies accountable to this law? What are the rights of the individual? Are businesses obligated to it?

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Pumps for All's market entry strategy in the UAE

The United Arab Emirates has developed rapidly over the past several years. Each Emirate is run under separate administrations, such that economic development varies between them. Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah are the most developed emirates, with relatively open economies for the region.

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The decision to attend college: opportunity costs and philosophical justification

Action: I decided to attend college, and obtain my undergraduate degree. Risk: First, there is the opportunity cost of the income I could earn at a full-time job.

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Measuring the effectiveness of expatriate remuneration in multinational organizations

Globalization has allowed virtually all categories of resources, be them technological, human, capital, commodities or other, to freely circulate from one region to the other.

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Secular humanism's rise and influence in the twentieth century

Basically, humanists believe in freedom and pluralistic democracy as virtually our first principle, and we are disturbed by any authoritarian effort to impose one point-of-view on America.

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Ethical analysis of the Satyam Computer Services scandal

The Satyam Computer Services scandal involved India's fourth-largest software services exporting company and likely represents the largest case of corporate fraud in India's corporate history.

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Student plagiarism through internet paper-selling websites

One of the first lessons on which college students receive instruction and lecture about is a lesson of integrity: your work must be your own. If a student writes a paper, they must give credit to the originator of any ideas that you incorporate into your work in support of your ideas and theories.

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Evolution of informed consent requirements in the Tri-Council Policy Statement

The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans 2008 draft version is substantially different from its 2003 first draft predecessor. In particular, the chapter dedicated to "Free and Informed Consent" is much more extensive in the 2008 draft.

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