A Three-Year Biocrime Sanitary Surveillance on Illegally Imported Companion Animals by Monia Cocchi, Patrizia Danesi, Gabrita De Zan, Marta Leati, Laura Gagliazzo, Margherita Ruggeri, Manlio Palei, Alessandro Bremini, Marie-Christin Rossmann, Melanie Lippert-Petscharnig, Michael-Dieter Mansfeld, Silvia Deotto, Sofia Leardini, Federica Gobbo, Paolo Zucca, Paola De Benedictis

“…The illegal trade of companion animals in the European Union poses several legal, ethical and health issues to the entire community. …”
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Toward a Tiered Model to Share Clinical Trial Data and Samples in Precision Oncology by Stefanie Broes, Stefanie Broes, Denis Lacombe, Michiel Verlinden, Michiel Verlinden, Isabelle Huys

“…The recent revolution in science and technology applied to medical research has left in its wake a trial of biomedical data and human samples; however, its opportunities remain largely unfulfilled due to a number of legal, ethical, financial, strategic, and technical barriers. …”
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The EMPCAN study: protocol of a population-based cohort study on the evolution of the socio-economic position of workers with cancer by Régine L. Kiasuwa-Mbengi, Victoria Nyaga, Renée Otter, Christophe de Brouwer, Catherine Bouland

“…After having solved legal, ethical and technical issues for the coupling, we will perform survival analysis with competing risks using the Fine and Gray model; we will also perform a multistate model using transitions probabilities; and finally, a group-based modeling for longitudinal data using the ‘proc traj’ package in SAS. …”
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A pipeline‐friendly software tool for genome diagnostics to prioritize genes by matching patient symptoms to literature by K. Joeri van derVelde, Sander van denHoek, Freerk vanDijk, Dennis Hendriksen, Cleo C. vanDiemen, Lennart F. Johansson, Kristin M. Abbott, Patrick Deelen, Birgit Sikkema‐Raddatz, Morris A. Swertz

“…However, many of these tools cannot be used in practice because they are embedded within variant prioritization algorithms, or exist as remote services that cannot be relied upon or are unacceptable because of legal/ethical barriers. In addition, many tools are not designed for command‐line usage, closed‐source, abandoned, or unavailable. …”
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Sharing of Clinical Trial Data and Samples: The Cancer Patient Perspective by Stefanie Broes, Stefanie Broes, Ciska Verbaanderd, Ciska Verbaanderd, Minne Casteels, Denis Lacombe, Isabelle Huys

“…Journal editors, pharmaceutical companies, funding agencies, governmental organizations, regulators, and clinical investigators have been debating the legal, ethical, and social implications of clinical data and sample sharing for several years. …”
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Telemedicine practice among Egyptian urologists: knowledge, attitude, and medicolegal concerns by Ezzat A. Ismail, Shaimaa A. Shehata, Ahmed M. Fouad, Moetaz D. Gomaa, Ahmed M. Bakr

“…Conclusions Although most participants practiced telemedicine, many obstacles were highlighted through the study. Ignoring legal, ethical, personal, and patient issues may also jeopardize the future of telemedicine. …”
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Physicians’ approach to end of life care: comparison of two tertiary care university hospitals in Lebanon by George Dabar, Imad Bou Akl, Mirella Sader

“…Establishing a sound and effective framework providing legal, ethical and religious guidance is thus needed in Lebanon.…”
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Machines that feel: behavioral determinants of attitude towards affect recognition technology—upgrading technology acceptance theory with the mindsponge model by Peter Mantello, Manh-Tung Ho, Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Quan-Hoang Vuong

“…As a far more invasive manner of surveillance capitalism, the technological adoption of emotional AI is problematized by a myriad of legal, ethical, cultural, and scientific issues. To better understand the behavioral factors determining an individual’s attitude towards this emerging technology, we first identify five major tensions that may impinge on adoption. …”
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Female adolescents living with HIV telling their story through ‘my story’ book in Malawi: A visual methodology innovation by Gertrude Mwalabu, Ida Mbendera, Pammla Petrucka, Violet Manjanja

“…<h4>Introduction</h4> Female adolescents living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus are a unique population facing lifelong challenges in reproductive and sexual health ranging from relational, social and legal-ethical considerations. While HIV prevalence of young females is higher than the males (4.9% versus 1%), evidence show that these adolescents in Malawi initiate sex as early as 15 years mostly with adult partners. …”
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A meta-analytic perspective on the valid use of subjective human judgement to make medical school admission decisions by Clare Kreiter, Marie O’Shea, Catherine Bruen, Paul Murphy, Teresa Pawlikowska

“…From a fair testing perspective, legal, ethical, and psychometric considerations, all dictate that the scientific evidence regarding human judgement in selection should be given consideration. …”
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“Data makes the story come to life:” understanding the ethical and legal implications of Big Data research involving ethnic minority healthcare workers in the United Kingdom—a qual... by Edward S. Dove, Ruby Reed-Berendt, Manish Pareek, UK-REACH Study Collaborative Group

“…In this article, we present findings from the ethical and legal stream of the study, which undertook qualitative research seeking to understand and address legal, ethical, and social acceptability issues around data protection, privacy, and information governance associated with the linkage of HCWs’ registration data and healthcare data. …”
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Traditional use of medicinal plants in the boreal forest of Canada: review and perspectives by Uprety Yadav, Asselin Hugo, Dhakal Archana, Julien Nancy

“…In addition, several critical issues need to be addressed regarding the legal, ethical and cultural aspects of the conservation of medicinal plant species and the protection of the associated traditional knowledge.…”
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Genetic/genomic testing: defining the parameters for ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) by Tania Ascencio-Carbajal, Garbiñe Saruwatari-Zavala, Fernando Navarro-Garcia, Eugenio Frixione

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Beyond ‘health and safety’ – the challenges facing students asked to work outside of their comfort, qualification level or expertise on medical elective placement by Connie Wiskin, Jonathan Dowell, Catherine Hale

“…This can require legal, ethical, and/or moral reasoning on the part of the student. …”
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Current knowledge status and attitude on heart transplantation among undergraduate medical students of a tertiary care medical institute in India by Anshuman Darbari, Manisha Naithani, Suresh Kumar Sharma, Anish Gupta, Ajay Kumar, Deepak Kumar Satsangi

“…Context: Organ transplantation can save thousands of lives as it is one of the greatest advancements of modern medical science but the process of organ donation and transplantation is very complex and multi-factorial, interplaying with- medical, legal, ethical, organizational and above all social factors. …”
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Governance Challenges to Promoting Data Readiness and Data Linkage for Not-for-Profit Organizational Service Data by Kiran Pohar Manhas, Jason Lau, Xinjie Cui

“…This collaboration required understanding the legal, ethical, policy and data challenges to working with data collected in the NFP sector. …”
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A Survey on Oocyte Donation: Turkish Fertile and Infertile Women’s Opinions by Aygul Akyuz, Nese Sever, Emre Karasahin, Gulten Guvenc, Suzan Cek

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of infor- mation of fertile and infertile Turkish women on oocyte donation in order to understand their awareness of the legal, ethical, social and religious issues regarding this technique and to compare these two groups in terms of these variables. …”
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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF INSTABILITY OF THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE ENTERPRISE IN A HYBRID WAR by I. Zapukhliak, A. Shegda, О. Mykytiuk, T. Onysenko, K. Petrenko

“…The article proposes a methodological approach to comprehensive assessment of the level of instability of environmental factors of enterprises, which, unlike others, involves the detection of instability in terms of seven components (socio-demographic, economic, technological, environmental, political, legal, ethical) on four criteria: complexity, interdependence, variability and uncertainty of factors, which makes it possible to determine their sources and nature, and thus form an effective response of the enterprise to change. …”
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A framework to facilitate interprovincial sharing of secondary health data in Canada by Robin Urquhart, Donna Curtis Maillet, Bev White, Jeanne MacDougall

“…The framework sought to: (1) facilitate researchers’ understanding of the foundational elements (legal/ethical) of interprovincial data sharing for health research; and (2) identify challenges and opportunities for improving sharing of data across the Maritime Provinces to support patient-oriented research. …”
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Enforcing CSR among food manufacturers in Malaysia through legal and institutional framework by Mark Louis, Angelina Anne Fernandez, Muhammad Afiq Ahmad Tajuddin, Rahmah Ismail

“…Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept in which corporations take into account the interest of the society in four areas of responsibility namely economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic. In the area of food manufacturing, corporate social responsibility plays a vital role by ensuring that food is healthy and in adherence to safety standards. …”
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