One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I consider the personhood of the human embryo. If the human embryo is a person, we are morally obligated to permit the practice of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save...

Cognitive Moral Development theory was first developed by Jean Piaget in order to explain the mental processes that occur when deriving meaning from experience. From this theory, Lawrence Kohlberg developed the hypothesis that the higher the moral reasoning, the higher the ethical decision....

Das Thema dieser Dissertation ist die Frage, wie kulturelle Unterschiede zwischen deutschen und israelischen Personalmanagement-Stilen und Arbeitsnormen zu Problemen in der täglichen Arbeit führen können und wie man diese Probleme vermeiden bzw. mit ihnen besser umgehen kann. Der zentrale...

Economics

Government

Philip Clarke and colleagues examined patient-level data for over 11,000 participants with type 2 diabetes from 20 countries and find that major complications of diabetes significantly increased hospital use and costs across settings. Background: Diabetes imposes a substantial burden globally in...

This paper presents the results of Phase 3 of The RETURN Project, a European Study which aimed to reduce long term absenteeism in the workplace. Phases 1 and 2 have been described in detail elsewhere. The Study adopted an iterative approach that explored LTA from three different perspectives:...

This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and socioeconomic factors. Regression modeling is used to determine(1) whether population mortality or child mortality better forecasts fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a...

BACKGROUND: The Health and Health Services Research Fund (HHSRF) is dedicated to support research related to all aspects of health and health services in Hong Kong. We evaluated the fund's outcomes and explored factors associated with the translation of research findings to changes in health...

In this dissertation we present mathematical models that help answer health policy questions relating to HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV), and analyze bias in Markov models of disease progression. We begin by developing a Markov decision process model that examines the timing of testing and treatment...