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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Registered Nurses work in hierarchical and gendered organizations. They face many of the same constraints and limits to their autonomy and decision making that subordinate workers in other occupations experience. The subordinate position of nurses in health care organizations interferes with their ability to act in accordance with their most cherished values and therefore challenges their ability to maintain their moral integrity. A qualitative study was undertaken to identify the practices nurses use to maintain their moral integrity and to discover patterns in nurses' use of these practices. Using Grounded Theory methods, seventeen randomly selected Registered Nurses were interviewed about times in their practices when their most cherished values were challenged or threatened by the decisions of more powerful others. Interviews were tape recorded, transcribed and analyzed using open coding technique. Analysis of the interview data revealed that nurses use four categories of practices to maintain their moral integrity: integrity-seeking practices, integrity-diminishing practices, integrity-repairing practices, and integrity-preserving practices. Data also indicated that nurses alternate or zigzag between all four practice categories in their attempts to act in accordance with their cherished values, rather than relying exclusively on practices in one category or steadily progressing toward an increased reliance on practices that preserve integrity. The findings of this study challenge the conventional concept of moral integrity as the unconditional commitment to fundamental values. They lend support, instead, to a sociological construction that considers moral integrity as the balancing of competing values. Moral integrity is constructed as a matter of degree rather than an all-or-nothing virtue. The findings argue for understanding the maintenance of moral integrity as a lifelong or career-long process of learning "to get it right" rather than the achievement of moral excellence. This research has implications for nursing practice. Chief among them is the need for nurses to better understand their sociological position in the organization of health care. Such an understanding will help nurses appreciate the challenges and complexity of maintaining moral integrity within the context of health care institutions. Additionally, this study points to the need for nurses and the Profession of Nursing to examine the integrity-diminishing practices nurses use. Many of these are subtle and insidious tactics, and nurses need to find more morally comfortable alternatives. Further research that involves theoretical sampling with a larger cohort of nurses will refine and further the hypotheses generated here. Such research may also help to identify the correlates of nurses' choice of integrity practice. / 2999-01-01

Univerzita Karlova 1. lékařská fakulta Studijní program: Psychologie Studijní obor: Lékařská psychologie a psychopatologie Tereza Příhodová, M.A. Měření integrity v klinických podmínkách a v situaci výběru Využití testu integrity v klinické praxi a psychologii práce Integrity measures under clinical conditions and in selection situations The use of integrity test in clinical practice and at work psychology Disertační práce - abstrakt v anglickém jazyce Vedoucí závěrečné práce/Školitel: doc. PhDr. Marek Preiss, Ph.D. Konzultant: PhDr. et PaedDr. Pavel Harsa, Ph.D. et Ph.D. Praha, 2021 ABSTRACT Integrity is a psychological and philosophical construct, which is closely related to the concepts of moral psychology. In different psychological disciplines it is often associated with related constructs including conscientiousness, virtue, honesty or emotional stability. In Czech psychological and psychiatric practice integrity is a variable, which is commonly not measured and evaluated as a personal asset, mainly due to the fact that there is a lack of proper instruments, which would be accessible to clinicians or researchers. The main goal of this dissertation thesis was to introduce newly developed integrity test, which is applicable in clinical and in non-clinical settings. Thus, this thesis summarizes the...

Published Article / In this article the focus is on the role of ethics in the research cycle. The author argues that current thinking with regard to ethics in research is very often scattered and limited to certain disciplines and certain activities only. It is also pointed out that research ethics is not only applicable to the actual doing of research but also processes associated with research such as supervision, the commercialization of research and the presentation of research within the public domain.

ITC/USA 2009 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Fifth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 26-29, 2009 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Morgan State University's iNET effort is aimed at improving existing telemetry networks by developing more efficient operation and cost effectiveness. This paper develops an enhanced security architecture for the iNET environment in order to protect the network from both inside and outside adversaries. This proposed architecture addresses the key security components of confidentiality, integrity and authentication. The security design for iNET is complicated by the unique features of the telemetry application. The addition of encryption is complicated by the need for robust synchronization needed for real time operation in a high error environment.

Verbal memory deficits are among the most prominent cognitive sequelae in individuals with left temporal lobe epilepsy (LTLE). However, relationships between verbal memory function and white matter integrity (WMI) in the left temporal lobe remain unclear. Current study aims included determining fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) differences as an index of WMI between participants with left temporal lobe epilepsy (LTLE), participants with right TLE (RTLE), and controls, establishing group differences based on verbal memory function between TLE groups, and describing relationships between WMI and verbal memory function within TLE groups. Probabilistic tractography defined the left fornix (FRX), left uncinate fasciculus (UF), left parahippocampal cingulum (PHC), and a control region, the left corticospinal tract (CST), in 26 LTLE, 29 RTLE, and 20 control participants. The LTLE group demonstrated significantly lower fractional anisotropy (FA) along the PHC compared with controls. LTLE and RTLE groups did not differ significantly on measures of verbal memory until analyses were restricted to participants with left-lateralized language functioning. PHC FA was negatively correlated with semantic memory function in LTLE, but positively associated with episodic memory functioning in RTLE. Overall, findings highlight the PHC as vulnerable in LTLE, and differentially related to verbal memory functioning based on TLE group. Both findings are likely secondary to left-lateralized white matter disruption in LTLE. The current study also highlighted the importance of identifying homogenous groups to more clearly identify brain-behavior relationships. Current findings further define left-lateralized white matter alternations and related verbal memory deficits in TLE. Implications for these findings are presented in context with previous TLE literature, and future directions for further study are discussed.

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Anecdotal evidence suggests that international undergraduate students are engaging in academically dishonest behavior on an increasing basis (Marcus, 2011; McGowan & Lightbody, 2008). In other words, they are found to occupy more time and resources than domestic students in the promotion of academic integrity and in administering punishments for academic dishonesty. This study explores international undergraduate student perspectives on issues related to academic integrity at a large, Western-Canadian university. Hofstede’s (1980) six cultural dimensions are used to learn to what extent, if any, culture and academic integrity are intertwined. Participants of the study were international undergraduate students in various faculties, years of study, and from various countries of origin: Azerbaijan, China, Hong Kong, India, Malta, Pakistan, South Korea, and United States of America. The findings of this study indicate that international undergraduate students have the impression that their group is more susceptible to engaging in academic dishonesty. Conversely, international undergraduate students are also found to possess a more advanced understanding of moral behavior, although they are sometimes unable to translate this fully to their academic lives. Implications for practice include: shifting to a taxonomy that frames positive or desired behaviors as opposed to the negative, sharing the burden of dealing with academic dishonesty, and better supporting faculty in relaying the message of academic integrity at the university using a bottom up approach. / October 2016

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Science, 2011 / A multifactor ecological integrity index, focusing on freshwater ecosystems on a quaternary catchment scale, can be of great benefit to conservation planning. No ecological integrity index has previously been developed for South African quaternary catchments. In this study an index was developed based on three environmental surrogates: land cover, river integrity and fish species conservation status, with the intention of identifying quaternary catchments of highest conservation concern. By developing such an index, the aim was to provide a general indication of the degree to which catchments have been transformed from a natural environment to a human altered environment, thereby identifying catchments most in need of conservation. For the three available datasets, indices were developed using a five category point-scoring system. A score of one indicates a completely degraded environment and a score of five indicates a pristine environment. The original land cover data consisted of 49 different land cover types which were reduced to five land cover transformation scores. Available river integrity data already existed in five categories and a numerical score of one to five was applied to each category. Fish species conservation status was scored according to the IUCN red data list classifications on a similar basis. Subsequently, a weighted mean score expressed as a percentage was calculated for the three indices for each quaternary catchment. These indices indicate the degree of change/transformation from a natural system (100%) to a largely degraded system (20%). Ultimately, an ecological integrity index was calculated as a mean value of the three related but independent indices. However, the results of the developed ecological integrity index were not representative of real world conditions. This is largely attributed to the lack of complete data found in two out of the three datasets used in the study. Some of the main limitations encountered were the lack of river segment definitions within each catchment and the incomplete and un-systematic collected fish species data records. The land cover data, on the contrary, was of high definition and high standard. It is recommended that in the interim, the developed land transformation index, based on a detailed analysis of land cover, be used as an indicator index of ecological integrity of catchments

I dagens kunskapssamhälle är arbetstagaren en investering i tid och pengar för arbetsgivaren. Det har medfört att det inte är lika lätt för arbetsgivaren att ersätta arbetare som tidigare, utan det läggs större vikt vid att hitta ”rätt person”. Enligt politiska beslut har arbetsgivarna tillförts ett växande ansvar för arbetstagarna i form av sjuklön, rehabiliteringsutredningar samt att organisera rehabiliteringsverksamhet på arbetsplatsen. Detta ansvar har gjort arbetsgivarna mer angelägna att veta så mycket som möjligt om arbetssökande och anställda, vilket har rest en fråga om integritet i arbetslivet. På grund av teknologisk utveckling kan arbetstagare övervakas på flera olika sätt. Dessa nya teknologier har även medfört en diskussion om etisk och laglig oro över integritetsrättvisa på arbetsplatsen.Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att illustrera de faktorer som påverkar legitimering av övervakning på arbetsplatsen. Vi har betraktat fenomenet utifrån ett managementperspektiv, där risk management och integritet har varit i fokus.Vi valde att använda oss av agentteorin och panoptikon då de är etablerade teorier inom vårt valda ämne. Risk management valde vi eftersom det används för att motivera övervakningsåtgärder. Vi har inriktat oss på riskbedömning då det är i denna fas som riskidentifieringen sker. För att läsaren ska förstå begreppet integritet, har vi valt att förklara det i den teoretiska referensramen samt presentera tre principer för att förenkla definitionen av vad dess rättighet innebär.Övervakning kan tillgodose olika intressen från arbetsgivarens sida för att till exempel upprätthålla god produktivitet och skydda tillgångar. Arbetsgivaren har även en skyldighet att bistå med en säker arbetsplats vilket gör att vissa övervakningsåtgärder legitimeras. Övervakning kan ogillas av arbetstagaren utav flera anledningar, bland annat har forskning visat att överdriven övervakning kan leda till missnöje, stress samt minskad motivation. Arbetstagarens negativa inställning till övervakning kan även bero på illegalt beteende vilket bland annat kan vara stöld eller missbruk. Vissa övervakningsåtgärder kan dock även tillgodose arbetstagarens intresse i form av exempelvis en säker arbetsmiljö.Uppsatsens studie visar att legitimering påverkas av ett flertal faktorer och att det inte finns något klart och tydligt svar på hur hantering av motsättningen mellan övervakning och personlig integritet ska behandlas. Det beror på hur arbetsgivaren motiverar övervakning samt om arbetstagaren är villig att godta de motiven. Vi anser att det är viktigt att båda parter för en kontinuerlig dialog över frågan.