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The Hybrid Incidence Susceptible-Transmissible-Removed Model for Pandemics
The susceptible-transmissible-removed (STR) model is a deterministic compartment model, based on the susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) prototype....
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Assessing the Effects of Holling Type-II Treatment Rate on HIV-TB Co-infection
In this paper, a HIV-TB co-infection model is explored which incorporates a non-linear treatment rate for TB. We begin with presenting a HIV-TB...
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Ethical and coordinative challenges in setting up a national cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
With the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), global researchers were confronted with major challenges. The...
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Ambiguity in Ethical Standards: Global Versus Local Science in Explaining Academic Plagiarism
The past decade has seen extensive research carried out on the systematic causes of research misconduct. Simultaneously, less attention has been paid...
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IPS Implications of IIE(θ(ε))-Model in Specifics of the Socio-economic Theory
The specific problem examined here is the theory underlying abolition of interest rate and its ethical, multiplier, stabilization, and wellbeing...
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Predicting Accounting Misconduct: The Role of Firm-Level Investor Optimism
Motivated by a large literature on how firm-specific resources (such as leadership and management skills, strategies, organizational capabilities and...
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Creating a Sustainable Society Beyond Times of Crisis
Japanese society is facing a historical transition characterized by a declining population, a declining birth rate, and an aging society. This...
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Individual Auditor Social Responsibility and Audit Quality: Evidence from China
Capitalizing on a unique setting in China where auditors disclose their prosocial activities, we examine the role that auditor social responsibility...
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Male Caregivers in Japan: Between Care and Masculinity
This chapter examines the relationship between care and masculinity, based on the actual caregiving practices of male caregivers in Japan. As the...
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The Abortion Wars
Conceiving a childChild is widely considered a happy event. The advent of IVFIn vitro fertilization (IVF) has highlighted the joy of this common...
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Comparison of the end-of-life decisions of patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia after the enforcement of the life-sustaining treatment decision act in Korea
BackgroundAlthough the Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) Decision Act was enforced in 2018 in Korea, data on whether it is well established in actual...
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On Metaphysics and Method in Newton
When I was a student, reigning opinion held that Newton, although unquestionably in the foremost rank of the great among scientists, was a shallow...
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Healthy Eating Policy, Public Reason, and the Common Good
The contribution of food and diet to health is much disputed in the background culture in the US. Many commercial or ideological advocates make...
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Applying the Foundational Method
The foundational or mathematical method reduces to the method of hypothetical models when applied. René Descartes brilliantly used it to derive a new...
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Consent to organ offers from public health service “Increased Risk” donors decreases time to transplant and waitlist mortality
BackgroundThe Public Health Service Increased Risk designation identified organ donors at increased risk of transmitting hepatitis B, hepatitis C,...
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Life Extension and Overpopulation: Demography, Morals, and the Malthusian Objection
One of the main objections to life extension is that life extension will cause severe overpopulation. This objection presents both moral and...
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The Kidney Transplantation Program in Iran
Kidney transplantation in Iran started in 1985. The transplantation program, known as the Renal Transplantation Initiative, was designed as a...
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Religion and Mortgage Misrepresentation
We investigate whether religion acts as a deterrent to the types of mortgage misrepresentation that played a significant role in the recent housing...
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Philosophy of Epidemiology
The philosophy of epidemiology is a recent addition to the philosophy of science. Its focus is on metaphysical and epistemic problems concerning the...
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“Lights out” poultry production and pandemic influenza
Poultry production makes a substantial contribution to global food security, providing energy, protein, and essential micro-nutrients to humans....