Key Issues and Guiding Principles for Negotiating a Software License or OEM Agreement

A Guide to IT Contracting ◽

10.1201/9781003166467-13 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 131-140

Author(s):

Michael R. Overly

Keyword(s):

Key Issues ◽

Software License ◽

Guiding Principles

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Guiding Principles for Identifying and Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses

Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-358-6.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 147-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mark Stansfield ◽

Thomas Connolly

Keyword(s):

Best Practice ◽

Virtual Campus ◽

High Profile ◽

Key Stakeholders ◽

E Learning ◽

Key Issues ◽

Level Model ◽

Guiding Principles ◽

Executive Agency ◽

Different Levels

This chapter will outline a set of guiding principles underpinning key issues in the promotion of best practice in virtual campuses. The work was conducted as part of the “Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses” (PBP-VC) project that is aimed at identifying underlying issues and examples of best practice in providing a better understanding into virtual campus development and sustainability. The PBP-VC project was a two year European Commission Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) co-financed project running from March 2007 to February 2009. The PBP-VC project team have worked with key stakeholders from virtual campus projects across Europe and globally in identifying and exploring key issues relating to best practice. The importance of developing a practical set of guiding principles for identifying, evaluating and promoting best practice in virtual campuses and e-learning can be demonstrated by the significant number of high profile e-learning and virtual campus failures that have occurred over the last decade both within Europe and globally at great financial cost. This chapter will highlight key enablers and inhibitors to success, provide a description of the different elements comprising the guiding principles in the promotion of best practice, as well as describing a tentative four level model aimed at illustrating different levels of virtual campus maturity in the achievement of sustainability and organisational transformation.

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New age issues in medical ethics - time to address

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20210256 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 998

Author(s):

Juhi Yadav ◽

Shalini Gupta

Keyword(s):

Medical Ethics ◽

Decision Maker ◽

Medical Technology ◽

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

New Age ◽

Medical Negligence ◽

Key Issues ◽

Guiding Principles ◽

Provision Of Care ◽

Current Code

Medical technology advancements and understanding along with constricted resources in provision of care to the needed, has arised ethical dilemmas. These are associated with the necessity of making decisions dependent on conflicting priorities, in the absence of established polices about the choice of the decision maker and the guiding principles checklist. Varying values and ethical models conflict current code of medical ethics making it inadequate. This article summarises key issues in contemporary medical ethics and a special note of medical negligence.

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Probing vacancies and structural distortions at individual defects in ceramics using EELS

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100165859 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 678-679

Author(s):

D. J. Wallis ◽

N. D. Browning

Keyword(s):

Structural Information ◽

Core Loss ◽

Nearest Neighbors ◽

Ceramic Materials ◽

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽

Real Space ◽

Atomic Scale ◽

Structure Property ◽

Scanning Transmission ◽

Key Issues

In electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), the near-edge region of a core-loss edge contains information on high-order atomic correlations. These correlations give details of the 3-D atomic structure which can be elucidated using multiple-scattering (MS) theory. MS calculations use real space clusters making them ideal for use in low-symmetry systems such as defects and interfaces. When coupled with the atomic spatial resolution capabilities of the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), there therefore exists the ability to obtain 3-D structural information from individual atomic scale structures. For ceramic materials where the structure-property relationships are dominated by defects and interfaces, this methodology can provide unique information on key issues such as like-ion repulsion and the presence of vacancies, impurities and structural distortion.An example of the use of MS-theory is shown in fig 1, where an experimental oxygen K-edge from SrTiO3 is compared to full MS-calculations for successive shells (a shell consists of neighboring atoms, so that 1 shell includes only nearest neighbors, 2 shells includes first and second-nearest neighbors, and so on).

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