Towards a Systematic Screening Tool for Quality Assurance and Semiautomatic Fraud Detection for Images in the Life SciencesScience and Engineering Ethics - Tập 23 - Trang 1113-1128 - 2016
Lars Koppers, Holger Wormer, Katja Ickstadt
The quality and authenticity of images is essential for data presentation, especially in the life sciences. Questionable images may often be a first indicator for questionable results, too. Therefore, a tool that uses mathematical methods to detect suspicious images in large image archives can be a helpful instrument to improve quality assurance in publications. As a first step towards a systemati...... hiện toàn bộ
Notices and Policies for Retractions, Expressions of Concern, Errata and Corrigenda: Their Importance, Content, and ContextScience and Engineering Ethics - Tập 23 - Trang 521-554 - 2016
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Judit Dobránszki
A retraction notice is an essential scientific historical document because it should outline the reason(s) why a scientific manuscript was retracted, culpability (if any) and any other factors that have given reason for the authors, editors, or publisher, to remove a piece of the literature from science’s history books. Unlike an expression of concern (EoC), erratum or corrigendum, a retraction wi...... hiện toàn bộ
The engineer’s responsibility for qualityScience and Engineering Ethics - Tập 4 - Trang 347-350 - 1998
Michael C. Loui
This paper offers a definition of quality for products, explains why engineers are morally responsible for quality, and outlines how engineers can fulfill this responsibility.
Hospital Ethics Committees in PolandScience and Engineering Ethics - Tập 21 - Trang 1525-1535 - 2014
Marek Czarkowski, Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk, Beata Szymańska
According to UNESCO guidelines, one of the four forms of bioethics committees in medicine are the Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs). The purpose of this study was to evaluate how the above guidelines are implemented in real practice. There were 111 hospitals selected out of 176 Polish clinical hospitals and hospitals accredited by Center of Monitoring Quality in Health System. The study was conduc...... hiện toàn bộ
Editors’ Overview Perspectives on Teaching Social Responsibility to Students in Science and EngineeringScience and Engineering Ethics - Tập 19 - Trang 1413-1438 - 2013
Henk Zandvoort, Tom Børsen, Michael Deneke, Stephanie J. Bird
Global society is facing formidable current and future problems that threaten the prospects for justice and peace, sustainability, and the well-being of humanity both now and in the future. Many of these problems are related to science and technology and to how they function in the world. If the social responsibility of scientists and engineers implies a duty to safeguard or promote a peaceful, ju...... hiện toàn bộ