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Favoritism: Ethical Dilemmas Viewed Through Multiple Paradigms
Favoritism is a controversial issue in many cultural settings. Related terms include nepotism and cronyism; all three are identified with misconduct in the merit-based business world. The flip side is ethics â the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group (Merriam-Webster, 2012). According to John Dewey (1902), âEthics is the science that deals with conduct insofar as this is considered to be right or wrong, good or bad.â Since favoritism is perceived as being linked to workplace misconduct, it is necessary to use ethics in examining this issue. The current study applied four lenses of ethics identified by Shapiro and Stefkovich (2011) to help people deal with ethical challenges: justice, critique, care, and the profession. Findings have implications for criteria used to handle ethical challenges in the workplace
Intermediate coherent-phase(PB) states of radiation fields and their nonclassical properties
Intermediate states interpolating coherent states and Pegg-Barnett phase
states are investigated using the ladder operator approach. These states reduce
to coherent and Pegg-Barnett phase states in two different limits. Statistical
and squeezing properties are studied in detail.Comment: 9 pages, 3 EPS figures, use epsf.sty. Accepted for publication in
Phys.Lett.
The flavour asymmetry of polarized anti-quarks in the nucleon
We present a study of the flavour asymmetry of polarized anti-quarks in the
nucleon using the meson cloud model. We include contributions both from the
vector mesons and the interference terms of pseudoscalar and vector mesons.
Employing the bag model, we first give the polarized valence quark distribution
of the meson and the interference distributions. Our calculations show
that the interference effect mildly increases the prediction for \Delta
\dbar(x)-\Delta \ubar(x) at intermediate region. We also discuss the
contribution of `Pauli blocking' to the asymmetry.Comment: 22 pages, LaTex, 5 PS figures. Version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C.
An appendix is added for expressions for the helicity dependent fluctuation
functions. An error in the programme for fluctuation function
f_{(\pi\rho)\Delta /N} is corrected, which increases numerical results by
about 10%. Unchanged conclusion
Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 155:Lobbying for protection under uncertainty: a real option approach
Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 155:Lobbying for protection under uncertainty: a real option approach
Maximal entanglement of nonorthogonal states: classification
A necessary and sufficient condition for the maximal entanglement of
bipartite nonorthogonal pure states is found. The condition is applied to the
maximal entanglement of coherent states. Some new classes of maximally
entangled coherent states are explicited constructed; their limits give rise to
maximally entangled Bell-like states.Comment: LaTeX, 8 pages, uses elsart.cl
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