Merck and River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) In understanding the decision Merck made to donate medicines‚ we need to start by understanding the motivations and core values behind the company that undertook the actions. We can get some insight into these by examining and understanding their company mission statement: The mission of Merck is to provide society with superior products and services‚ innovations‚ and solutions that improve the quality of life and satisfy customer needs-to provide employees
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This article is a compilation of historical events and speculation that provide the blurred lines between perception and truth. Neiberg refers to inattentional blindness in correlation to the way our mind perceives our own nation’s accomplishments and ideals. Inattentional blindness is the lack of attention to supposedly irrelevant information generally related to our visual perception; in the article’s context‚ this was our mind’s perception of the information we receive. The article states that
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss and explain Mayeroff’s caring philosophy as well as how culture relates to one of Mayeroff’s ingredients‚ knowledge. Milton Mayeroff uses several concepts to allow the person caring and the person receiving the care the opportunity to personally grow. In Mayeroff’s book‚ On Caring‚ Mayeroff describes his ingredients of caring‚ which are knowledge‚ alternating rhythms‚ patience‚ honesty‚ trust‚ humility‚ hope‚ and courage (1971). For my paper‚ I decided to use
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the introduction‚ is to assess change blindness in real life with direct participants rather than through television‚ photographs and computer screens. The experiment tests the hypothesis that people are more likely to detect changes in a scene when directly participating in the experiment. Due to the results of the initial experiment‚ the aim of the study evolved to assess the effect of social groups on change blindness. They hypothesised that change blindness would increase if the participant viewed
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“River Blindness” In 1979‚ Dr. William Campbell‚ a research scientist working for Merck and Company‚ discovered evidence that one of the company’s drugs might kill the parasite that causes river blindness. He then decided to request permission to research this new finding. The mangers for the company noticed that it would take enormous amount of funding and time to develop this new vaccine. This new product could be really hard to market and who was going to actually buy it; it could also
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Simons & Ambinder (2005)‚ is ‘change blindness’‚ i.e.‚ the inability to detect change in a visual stimulus. Jensen et al. (2011) differentiate this from another phenomenon‚ ‘inattentional blindness’‚ in which an unexpected object is not detected within the field of view. Though both phenomena are fundamentally failings of visual awareness‚ each has its own set of cognitive influences and potential implications (Jensen et al.‚ 2011). Moreover‚
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Theme of Blindness Sophocles was a prolific writer and his long life enabled him to have a prodigious literary output. There is always a deep philosophic content at the back of Sophocles’ plays. Men suffer in the tragedies of Sophocles‚ characterisation always charged with emotion and poetry guesstimates the growth and development of his dramatic genius. One of the main underlying themes in Oedipus Rex is blindness. Not just physical blindness‚ but intellectual blindness as well. The blindness issue
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Tamar Kirkland Pd. 2 Title: 11/9/15 Choice Blindness Question: Does Choice Blindness occur more in females or males? Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to see how much we pay attention to things we feel are confidently right‚ when they are actually wrong. I can conclude from this project if female pay more attention than males‚ and vice versa. Hypothesis: My Hypothesis is that if I show the female test subjects photos‚ a smell or jam that they did not choose‚ then more females
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Stake for Vagelos as CEO and for Merck as a company in deciding whether to invest in Dr. Campbell’s idea Although Dr. Campbell’s idea of a drug (Ivermectin) that could cure River blindness was a path-breaking opportunity for Merck‚ the company was faced with a number of ethical‚ financial and moral issues that forced its CEO to undergo deep thought and contemplation before investing in this idea. * Feasibility: There were concerns about the use of this drug on humans and the potential adverse
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“John Montague expresses his themes in a clear and precise fashion” You have been asked by your local radio station to give a talk on the poetry of John Montague. Write out the text of the talk you would deliver in response to the above title. You should refer to both style and subject matter. Support the points you make by reference to the poetry on your course. Good evening listeners and welcome to our Friday night poetry segment‚ Poetry Aloud. Tonight we will explore the works of the famous northern
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