Merck‚ the FDA‚ and the Vioxx Recall 1. Do you believe that Merck acted in a socially responsible and ethical manner with regard to Vioxx? Why or Why not? In your answer‚ please address the company’s drug development and testing‚ marketing and advertising‚ relationships with government regulators and policymakers‚ and handling of the recall. I do not believe that Merck made a socially responsible decision when Vioxx was introduced into the pharmaceutical market. Scientists that were involved
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics‚ Hong Kong‚ 19-22 August 2007 A MONEY LAUNDERING RISK EVALUATION METHOD BASED ON DECISION TREE SU-NAN WANG1‚ 2‚ JIAN-GANG YANG1 1 College of Computer Science and Engineering‚ Zhejiang University‚ Hangzhou 310027‚ China 2 Shanghai Pudong Development Bank‚ Shanghai 200002‚ China E-MAIL: wangsn@spdb.com.cn‚ yangjg@cs.zju.edu.cn Abstract: Money laundering (ML) involves moving illicit funds‚ which may be
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Merck and river blindness are a good example for Utilitarianism theory because the results brought happiness for both the company and the people. Utilitarianism is an ethical framework that focuses on the outcomes or results of actions. In fact‚ its name comes from the Greek word Telos‚ which means “end.” The two most influential developers of the utilitarian viewpoint were Englishmen Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–1873). Under this framework‚ acting ethically means making
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Trees and Graphs Pat Hanrahan Tree Drawing Page 1 Why Trees? Hierarchies File systems and web sites Organization charts Categorical classifications Similiarity and clustering Branching processes Genealogy and lineages Phylogenetic trees Decision processes Indices or search trees Decision trees Tournaments Two Major Visual Representations Connection: Node / Link Diagrams Containment / Enclosure F6 G6 H6 J36 U8 B10 C30 L7 M7 V12 O4 P4 Q4 R4 S4 T4 W8 Page
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“A Poison Tree” Poetry Analysis “A Poison Tree”‚ by William Blake is a poem of four stanzas‚ with a rhyme scheme of aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff-gg-hh‚ and in which the poet examines the negative effects of unresolved anger. Blake cleverly presents this idea by way of an extended metaphor in order to make the point that if you let anger fester and build up‚ deplorable actions may occur. Blake also employs allusions and tone to help convey this theme. An extended metaphor is a literary device that compares
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Brand Communications Reporting Issue: IMC plan for The Banyan Tree Nichapat Fongsmut MBAII Glion Institute of Higher Education M947 Brand Communications Hand-in date 3rd October 2014 Statement of Authorship I certify that this assignment is my own work and contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any degree or diploma in any institute‚ college or university. Moreover‚ to the best of my knowledge and belief‚ it contains no material previously published or written
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In the play The Pohutukawa Tree‚ written by Bruce Mason‚ an important relationship was the relationship between Aroha Mataira and her mislead daughter Queenie Mataira. Throughout the play the relationship between these two main characters is a cause of constant conflict. The conflict is shown through the lack of a mother-daughter relationship‚ followed by Queenie falling pregnant and being sent away for good. This conflict helped me learn that firstly‚ even the closest family members can turn against
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Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications Version 1.1 Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications Prepared for NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance NASA Headquarters Washington‚ DC 20546 August‚ 2002 Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications Version 1.1 Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications NASA Project Coordinators: Dr. Michael Stamatelatos‚ NASA Headquarters Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Mr. José Caraballo‚ NASA Langley Research Center
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gets the topic tree. She struggles throughout the school year to create the perfect one. By the time June rolls around‚ she figures out how to speak up about being raped by Andy Evans and put feelings into her art. Melinda’s journey parallels the development of her tree project by depicting trees that are almost dead represent how she feels
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strategy tree analysis is one participatory tool of mapping out main problems‚ along with their causes and effects‚ supporting project planners to identify clear and manageable goals and the strategy of how to achieve them. There are three stages in this analytic process: (1) the identification of the negative aspects of an existing situation with their “causes and effects” in a problem tree‚ (2) the inversion of the problems into objectives leading into an objective tree‚ and (3) the decision of the
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