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Ethical Challenges with Welfare Technology: A Review of the Literature
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2012Demographical changes in high income counties will increase the need of health care services but reduce the number of people to provide them. Welfare technology is launched as an important measure to meet this challenge. As with all types of technologies we must explore its ethical challenges.
Bjørn Hofmann, Hofmann Bjørn
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Reproductive technologies and animal welfare
2020In general, animal welfare and reproduction are strictly related. Numerous studies have reported that both chronic and acute stress and the associated reduced level of animal welfare may impair the reproductive functions in both males and females. For instance, stress can reduce the secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) by the hypothalamus
NAPOLITANO F. +3 more
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Information Technology (IT) and Welfare in India
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2020The use of information technology (IT) in public administration is seen as a significant tool for improving efficiency, transparency and accountability and in popular rhetoric, and is often heralded as a necessary and sufficient condition for this. We study the use of various forms of IT such as computerization, public management information systems ...
Reetika Khera, Vineeth Patibandla
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Information technology for the welfare of mankind
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1984THE PRINCIPAL thrust of activities within the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society is the development and use of the methods of systems engineering, together with the strongest of emphasis on human-system interaction concerns, for the design of knowledge-based cybernetic systems and processes that support human activities in planning, design ...
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Technological Innovation and Welfare
Concepts and Transformation, 1998The first part of this article presents a brief analysis of the reasons why the immense amount of technological innovation in (old and new) industrialized countries does not seem to have contributed to any increase in social welfare. It is argued that the support from the political system to multinational firms' strategies for globalization is too ...
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Interoperability and Convergence for Welfare Technology
2018Interoperability and convergence are two key features of any working sociotechnical infrastructure that includes a plurality and multiplicity of communities of practice using technologies. However, as information systems scale up and the heterogeneity of users increases, it becomes challenging to actualise interoperability and convergence.
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Technology licensing, R&D and welfare
Economics Letters, 2013zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Chang, RY (Chang, Ray-Yun) +2 more
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Universal Design and Welfare Technology
2016The paper presents the background for the increased interest for and use of welfare technology. It discusses current definitions of welfare technology and suggests a typology of this technology based on the different definitions. It compares the definitions with that of assistive technology and endeavors to draw a clearer limit between them, in ...
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MEDICAL INSURANCE, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND WELFARE
Economic Inquiry, 1984Concerns have been expressed about the welfare effects of expensive innovations in medical care financed largely through medical insurance. This paper develops a model which considers such issues. It is shown that even if insurance is purchased optimally (subject to a plausible constraint on the form of the contract), innovations may be adopted that ...
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The Contribution of Information Technology to Consumer Welfare
Information Systems Research, 1996Over the past two decades, American businesses have invested heavily in information technology (IT) hardware. Managers often buy IT to enhance customer value in ways that are poorly measured by conventional output statistics. Furthermore, because of competition, firms may be unable to capture the full benefits of the value they create. This undermines
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