140-the Arab Spring Implications for British Policy October 2011Foreword 1 preface 2 introduction 3 Chapter 1: Regional Overview 4 Eugene Rogan (university of Oxford) Chapter 2: Tunisia: the Trailblazer and the Benchmark 8 Michael J. Willis (university of Oxford) Chapter 3: Egypt: transition to democracy 13 Tariq Ramadan (university of Oxford) Chapter 4: Six lessons from Libya 16 Shashank Joshi (RUSI) Chapter 5: Syria:revolution and repression 20 Marwa Daoudy (university of
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comes from the Greek word ‘ethos’‚ meaning custom or behaviour. The concept of ethics was originally proposed by the Greek philosopher Aristotle for the discussion of philosophical questions relating to daily life: the ‘ethike theoria’ deals with the study of‚ and gives criteria for the evaluation of human behaviour. Since then‚ ethics has become one of the major topics in Western philosophy when debating social and individual values‚ their relationship and their hierarchy in society. Today‚ the meaning
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U.S.‚ Europe‚ Asia (Morris‚ Cascio & Young‚ 1999; Dahl and Neshheim‚ 1998; Suarez‚ 2000). At this project I will explain the psychological and economical impacts of downsizing for the organizations‚ the workforce and the society. MAIN BODY IMPLICATIONS OF DOWNSIZING FOR THE WORKFORCE DOWNSIZING STRATEGIES Primary‚ employee cut down tactics‚ which are intended to decrease headcount frequently through joblessness. Another‚ work reforms tactics‚ which contain reformatting roles organization
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Probably‚ applied genetics’ most impacts on society are as a result of genetic tests. In general‚ genetic tests seek to detect some feature of a person’s genetic constitution. This feature can be a disease causing mutation or a marker DNA sequence used to detect presence of another gene. Obviously these procedures used for testing the status of DNA‚ RNA or chromosomes are included in genetic tests. What is more it is possible to include some protein based tests and classical medical examinations
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Birth‚ marriage and death are the standard trio of key events in most people’s lives. But only one‚ marriage is a matter of choice (Innocenti Digest‚ 2001). The rights to have a choice were recognized as a principle of law‚ yet many girls and some boys enter marriage life without any chance of their rights to choose. Childhood and adolescence are usually the greatest years of one’s life. However‚ the period is cut short when marriage and adult responsibilities come too early as ones practiced early
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PIRACY IN SOMALIA AND ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS In the past few years‚ pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have received a great deal of public attention. According to the London-based International Maritime Bureau‚ there has been an “unprecedented increase” in Somali pirate activity in the first 9 months of 2009. Until September this year 147 incidents were reported off the Somali coast and in the Gulf of Aden (separating Somalia and Yemen)‚ compared with 63 for the same period
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Barry Young Individual Research Paper: The Ethical Implications of Cloud Computing on Society MGMT 505 Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Policy Spring 2013 Niki A. den Nieuwenboer Cloud Computing is a popular term for “enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction” (Brian‚ 2012). The concept of Cloud Computing was first developed in the 1960’s
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CASE STUDY ON FUTURE SCOPE OF NANOROBOTICS IN MEDICAL FIELD 2 3 Keshav kumar EE Pawan Garg EC‚ Prince kumar Teli E 1 2 3 kumarkeshavee@gmail.com pawangarg14690@gmail.com Princekumart9@gmail.com‚ Institute of Technology &Management‚ Bhilwara 1 ABSTRACT Nanorobotics‚ just as with all nanotechnology is still in very early stages of development and as such is largely based within electronic engineering and physics and concerns micromachining‚ microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)and Scanning Probe Microscopy
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island is now replaced by land and sea. This global melting is a warning sign of climate change‚ but its implications go beyond merely losing snow and ice. Hundreds of millions of people depend on these melting of ice for fresh water supply. If the glaciers are receding at such a fast rate‚ the water supply for them will eventually disappear ‚ causing more frequent drought. Worst still‚ studies have shown that this global melting also causes the sea level to rise‚ at a fast rate of 3mm per year. At
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SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA A SEMINAR PRESENTED BY ADEBAYO‚ SEGUN MATRIC NO: 173998 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY FACULTY OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN COURSE: PHI 713- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY LECTURER IN CHARGE PROFESSOR DIPO IRELE June 2013 INTRODUCTION: Communication is as old as humankind‚ it is the basis of social interactions and life blood of human societies‚ we can say without communication. Each individual would merely be an island
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