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    Perceptions of the effectiveness of ethical guidelines: an international study of physicians (review)
    with D. C. Malloy, P. Sevigny, T. Hadjistavropoulos, M. Jeyaraj, E. Fahey McCarthy, M. Murakami, S. Paholpak, and I. Park
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 12 (4): 373-383. 2009.
    The intent of ethics is to establish a set of standards that will provide a framework to modify, regulate, and possibly enhance moral behaviour. Eleven focus groups were conducted with physicians from six culturally distinct countries to explore their perception of formalized, written ethical guidelines (i.e., codes of ethics, credos, value and mission statements) that attempt to direct their ethical practice. Six themes emerged from the data: lack of awareness, no impact, marginal impact, other…Read more
  •  9
    A New Measurement of the Partial 0+->0+ Half Life of 10C with GAMMASPHERE
    with B. K. Fujikawa, S. J. Asztalos, R. M. Clark, M. -A. Deleplanque-Stephens, P. Fallon, S. J. Freedman, L. J. Lising, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, J. C. Reich, M. A. Rowe, S. -Q. Shang, F. S. Stephens, E. G. Wasserman, and J. P. Greene
    We report on a new measurement of the strength of the superallowed 0+->0+ transition in the beta-decay of 10C: 10C->10B+e+nu. The experiment was done at the LBNL 88-inch cyclotron using forty seven GAMMASPHERE germanium detectors. Precise knowledge of this branching ratio is necessary to compute the superallowed Fermi ft, which gives the weak vector coupling constant and the u to d element of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi- Maskawa quark mixing matrix.
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    Ethical considerations for biobanks serving underrepresented populations
    with Nelson Luis Badia Garrido, George Lord, Zane Allan Maggio, and Bohdan B. Khomtchouk
    Bioethics. forthcoming.
    Biobanks are essential biological database resources for the scientific community, enabling research on the molecular, cellular, and genetic basis of human disease. They are crucial for computational, data‐driven biomedical research, which advances precision medicine and the development of targeted therapies. However, biobanks often lack racial and ethnic diversity, with many data sets predominantly comprising individuals of white, primarily northern European, ancestry. Establishing or enhancing…Read more
  • Žižek's Postmodern Ideology, or Traversing the Fantasy and the Specters
    International Journal of Žižek Studies 3 (2). 2009.