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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35, 2022 To act safely and ethically in the real world, agents must be able to reason about harm and avoid harmful actions. However, to date there is no statistical method for measuring harm and factoring it into algorithmic decisions. In this paper we propose the first formal definition of harm and benefit using causal models.
Jonathan G. Richens +2 more
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To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol's Harms to Others [PDF]
Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2015 Objective To examine how sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption are related to a four-way typology of causing harm to others and/or being harmed by othersș and one's own drinking. Data and Methods Data from the 2011 Danish ...
K. Seid, Abdu +3 more
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"Cloning Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful [PDF]
2006 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2006 Current literature on the topic of duplicated (cloned) code in software systems often considers duplication harmful to the system quality and the reasons commonly cited for duplicating code often have a negative connotation. While these positions are sometimes correct, during our case studies we have found that this is not universally true, and we have
Cory Kapser, Michael W. Godfrey
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The harms of promoting ‘Zero Harm’ [PDF]
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2019 In this issue, Amalberti and Vincent1 ask ‘what strategies we might adopt to protect patients when healthcare systems and organizations are under stress and simply cannot provide the standard of care they aspire to’. This is clearly a critical and much overdue question, as many healthcare organisations are in an almost constant state of stress from ...
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A Qualitative Analysis of Perceptions of Self-Harm in Members of the General Public. [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose: Previous research into health care professionals’ perceptions of self-harm has found that, although complex, in some cases, their perceptions can be somewhat negative and unsympathetic towards individuals who harm themselves.
Bale, Chris +2 more
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The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2023 AbstractThe Harm Threshold (HT) holds that the state may interfere in medical decisions parents make on their children’s behalf only when those decisions are likely to cause serious harm to the child. Such a high bar for intervention seems incompatible with both parental obligations and the state’s role in protecting children’s well-being.
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Global state of harm reduction 2020. [PDF]
, 2020 he Global State of Harm Reduction is the only report that provides an independent analysis of harm reduction in the world. Now in its the seventh edition, the Global State of Harm Reduction 2020 is the most comprehensive global mapping of harm reduction ...
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, 2023 Background: Social work with people who use drugs (PWUD) has traditionally focused on abstinence and rehabilitation. In recent years, harm reduction has gained an increasingly more important role in social work with PWUD, and social workers are key ...
Richert, Torkel +5 more
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Being bullied during childhood and the prospective pathways to self-harm in late adolescence [PDF]
, 2013 Objective: To assess whether being bullied between 7 and 10 years of age is directly associated with self-harm in late adolescence when controlling for previous exposure to an adverse family environment (domestic violence, maladaptive parenting ...
Lereya, Suzet +9 more
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The importance of drug checking outside the context of nightlife in Slovenia
Harm Reduction Journal, 2018 Background The main purpose of the research was to evaluate the implementation of the drug checking service in Slovenia and to obtain the opinion of users included in harm reduction programmes for high-risk drug users and of drug users in nightlife ...
Matej Sande, Simona Šabić
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