Policy and Attitudes towards Collection of Personal DNA in genetic databases in Japan

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiko Suda ◽  
Darryl Macer
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Genetic Database ◽  
High Level

AbstractThis paper presents the results of public opinion research conducted in Japan on the willingness of persons to contribute their DNA to a genetic database, and the reasons behind their choices. The results are discussed in light of the Act Concerning Protection of Personal Information issued in 2003, and with reference to genetic database projects that have been conducted in Japan. There appears to be increasing concerns about privacy in Japan, despite a high level of support for science and technology. While 44% said they would agree to blood donation for a DNA bank, 28% were negative to donate, and another 28% answered they “don't know”. The reasons behind these choices and the concepts of storage of genetic databases are partially reflected in the guidelines applied to collection of genetic databases, but greater and more independent community engagement will be important to increase public involvement in large scale genetics projects in Japan.

scholarly journals Views on Differential Management in Safety Supervision of Construction Engineering

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Yinghua
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Deep Foundation ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
Engineering Construction ◽  
Engineering Structure ◽  
High Level ◽  
Socialist Market

Given the advances in science and technology, rapid development of socialist market economy and continuous advance of urbanization, it is necessary to enlarge the scale of engineering construction. As the form of engineering structure becomes more complex, large-scale and high-level projects with deep foundation have appeared in engineering construction. For construction engineering, one of its technologies includes solving the difficulties in construction. It is required to deal with the safety risk of construction in time to guarantee safety construction, timely solve the management difficulties and contradictory problems of the project and ensure both the safety of engineering construction and the rationalization of the institution setting of the safety supervision on the project. 

Integration of Refugees and Support for the Ethos of Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 2040-2067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hall
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Social Identity Complexity ◽  
Migration Crisis

Following forced expulsion and campaigns of ethnic cleansing, substantial portions of national communities affected by conflict no longer live within the boundaries of the state. Nevertheless, existing wartime and postwar public opinion research is largely confined to countries directly affected by conflict. As a result, current research may overlook important war-affected populations and processes shaping their opinions. I address this problem by examining the question: does incorporation in settlement countries reduce support for conflict ideology? Examining this question requires new microdata. I examine the results of a large-scale survey of ex-Yugoslavs in Sweden. The findings suggest that incorporation undermines support for conflict ideology by increasing the socioeconomic security and social identity complexity of migrants. This has important implications for multiculturalism policies in the context of the current global migration crisis.

scholarly journals ‘The Kāpiti Distressway’: A Sociological Case Study of Public Involvement in a Socio-Technical Controversy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Morgan Jasper Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
National Significance

<p>This thesis examines public involvement in socio-technical controversies from a sociological perspective. Public engagement in science and technology is becoming increasingly important in societies where citizens are asked, and expected, to be involved with issues that have been dominated by experts. In New Zealand, a contemporary example of public participation in science and technology is the large-scale road building programme called the Roads of National Significance. The central aim of this thesis is to understand how the public engage with and create meaningful evaluations of complex issues that are associated with expert-driven politics and top-down decision-making processes. I examine the public’s involvement in the Kāpiti expressway project by discussing how locally-based groups evaluated and publicised it as an object of concern. Specifically, I investigate the demonstration and visual imagery technologies that were utilised to publicise the expressway as a public matter. I then explore how opponents translated their concerns with the environmental, political, and social aspects of the project as legal and technical issues. The second aim of this thesis is to contribute to the material turn in the human sciences by engaging with object-oriented (Barry, 2013; Latour, 2005a; Marres & Lezaun, 2011) and socio-cultural (Boltanski & Thévenot, 2006) approaches to public involvement in socio-technical controversies. The role that technologies play in materialising public participation and re-presenting the Kāpiti expressway project as an object of concern are examined. However, to create a dialogue between object-oriented and socio-cultural approaches to public dispute, I investigate the technologies of justification and criticism, and the cultural modes of evaluation that qualify people and things within moral vocabularies. I argue that the public were obliged to re-present the Kāpiti expressway as an object of concern by demonstrating how their personal objections were relevant to the legal and technical aspects of the project. A range of technological devices enabled local groups to evaluate the project during the early planning stages of the project, but convincing decision-makers to reject the expressway involved the difficult task of critiquing the planning process, and enrolling allies. This thesis uses a qualitative, case study approach to socio-technical controversies. I use interviews, qualitative observations, and documentary methods to examine the actions of locally-based groups and the modes of evaluation used to challenge the Kāpiti expressway project.</p>

scholarly journals ‘The Kāpiti Distressway’: A Sociological Case Study of Public Involvement in a Socio-Technical Controversy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Morgan Jasper Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
National Significance

<p>This thesis examines public involvement in socio-technical controversies from a sociological perspective. Public engagement in science and technology is becoming increasingly important in societies where citizens are asked, and expected, to be involved with issues that have been dominated by experts. In New Zealand, a contemporary example of public participation in science and technology is the large-scale road building programme called the Roads of National Significance. The central aim of this thesis is to understand how the public engage with and create meaningful evaluations of complex issues that are associated with expert-driven politics and top-down decision-making processes. I examine the public’s involvement in the Kāpiti expressway project by discussing how locally-based groups evaluated and publicised it as an object of concern. Specifically, I investigate the demonstration and visual imagery technologies that were utilised to publicise the expressway as a public matter. I then explore how opponents translated their concerns with the environmental, political, and social aspects of the project as legal and technical issues. The second aim of this thesis is to contribute to the material turn in the human sciences by engaging with object-oriented (Barry, 2013; Latour, 2005a; Marres & Lezaun, 2011) and socio-cultural (Boltanski & Thévenot, 2006) approaches to public involvement in socio-technical controversies. The role that technologies play in materialising public participation and re-presenting the Kāpiti expressway project as an object of concern are examined. However, to create a dialogue between object-oriented and socio-cultural approaches to public dispute, I investigate the technologies of justification and criticism, and the cultural modes of evaluation that qualify people and things within moral vocabularies. I argue that the public were obliged to re-present the Kāpiti expressway as an object of concern by demonstrating how their personal objections were relevant to the legal and technical aspects of the project. A range of technological devices enabled local groups to evaluate the project during the early planning stages of the project, but convincing decision-makers to reject the expressway involved the difficult task of critiquing the planning process, and enrolling allies. This thesis uses a qualitative, case study approach to socio-technical controversies. I use interviews, qualitative observations, and documentary methods to examine the actions of locally-based groups and the modes of evaluation used to challenge the Kāpiti expressway project.</p>

scholarly journals Public Opinion in Affluent Democracies

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Consumer Confidence ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
Additional Information

Public-opinion research ranges from political attitudes to understanding family life in sociology to consumer confidence surveys in economics. This article covers some of the major resources for studying and understanding opinions on political topics in the United States and other affluent democracies. It describes the major books on the content and methodology of public-opinion research as a guide to current scholarship. In addition, the article includes information on primary resources and journals emphasizing research on political attitudes. Many of the large-scale US and international public-opinion projects also provide the survey data and additional information on their research topics, and these projects are listed in the various sections of the article.

Social inequality in the evolution of human societies

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-120
Author(s):  
Georgi Derluguian
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Tangible Assets ◽  
Transition To Agriculture ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
High Level ◽  
Political Economic

The author develops ideas about the origin of social inequality during the evolution of human societies and reflects on the possibilities of its overcoming. What makes human beings different from other primates is a high level of egalitarianism and altruism, which contributed to more successful adaptability of human collectives at early stages of the development of society. The transition to agriculture, coupled with substantially increasing population density, was marked by the emergence and institutionalisation of social inequality based on the inequality of tangible assets and symbolic wealth. Then, new institutions of warfare came into existence, and they were aimed at conquering and enslaving the neighbours engaged in productive labour. While exercising control over nature, people also established and strengthened their power over other people. Chiefdom as a new type of polity came into being. Elementary forms of power (political, economic and ideological) served as a basis for the formation of early states. The societies in those states were characterised by social inequality and cruelties, including slavery, mass violence and numerous victims. Nowadays, the old elementary forms of power that are inherent in personalistic chiefdom are still functioning along with modern institutions of public and private bureaucracy. This constitutes the key contradiction of our time, which is the juxtaposition of individual despotic power and public infrastructural one. However, society is evolving towards an ever more efficient combination of social initiatives with the sustainability and viability of large-scale organisations.

Feline blood donation adverse reactions: classification and description of acute and delayed reactions in a donor population

2021 ◽  
pp. 1098612X2110202
Author(s):  
Tiago AM Abreu ◽  
Andreia ST Oliveira ◽  
Rui RF Ferreira ◽  
Sandrina MV Correia ◽  
Mafalda SSQ Morais ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donors ◽  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Animal Blood ◽  
Veterinary Practitioner ◽  
Donor Programme ◽  
Donor Population ◽  
Delayed Reactions ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
High Level

Objectives This article aims to analyse the safety of feline blood donation by describing the frequency and nature of any adverse reactions and their causes, as well as propose measures to decrease the incidence of adverse reactions. Methods In this prospective study, any blood donor adverse reactions detected by the clinical staff during and immediately after donation were recorded. The owners of the cats were also surveyed by a veterinary practitioner or veterinary nurse 5 days after donation, using a predefined questionnaire to assess for any clinical or behavioural changes. Data were collected between January 2019 and March 2020 from blood donors enrolled in an animal blood bank programme. Results Of 3690 blood donations from 1792 feline donors assessed, post-donation reactions were reported in 1.14% (n = 42): 0.22% (n = 8) were acute reactions, which included weakness, pallor, tachypnoea and open-mouth breathing; and 0.92% (n = 34) were delayed post-donation reactions, with 0.16% involving cutaneous (haematomas and skin rashes, n = 6), 0.68% involving behavioural (n = 25) and 0.08% involving digestive (emesis and inappetence, n = 3) signs. Conclusions and relevance The low incidence of post-donation reactions in this study is encouraging, suggesting that a well-established protocol and competent staff can help to ensure a high level of safety in a feline donor programme and, in turn, increase the confidence of cat owners.

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