Introduction Although the US has a lower suicide rate than Japan today, both nations recognize this phenomenon to be an important problem. Suicides are committed by tens of thousands of people every year. The numbers are connected to the general situation within the nation and are linked to economic, social and cultural factors. Both Japan and the US are trying to reduce their suicide rates through prevention and treatment measures. 1. Suicide Rates in Japan and North America Japan has long been known to have a relatively low suicide rate: before 1998, it averaged 17 people per 100,000 of population. In 1998, there was a splash to about 27 instead…

Introduction My personal values have developed over the period of time encompassing my entire life and, in my opinion, have resulted in a coherent and stable ethics code. Constructed under a set of external influences such as family, school, friends, media and others, my personal values nevertheless reflect my individual approach that reworked many norms present in society. These values have formed the basis for behavior norms that constitute a consistent standard of conduct. Although I may sometimes deviate from behaviors prescribed by my personal values, over the long run my behavior patterns are corrected to be in accordance with ethical beliefs. In this paper, I will explore the part…

Organized crime has much more dangerous consequences for the economy of the country than badly informed person could imagine. Canada loses millions of dollars every day because of the crimes committed by gangs, Mafia and other criminal organizations. Money laundry creates a serious threat for the economy of the country. Washing out dirty money gangsters ruin the businesses of honest people as they can afford lower prices in order to wash out the criminal money. In addition the illegal profits of these organizations are not shown in any tax declarations and country loses money this way also. About 17 billions $ is laundered in Canada each year. Damage to property…

The process of democratization of information had been going at full speed for the past few decades thus making information more and more available to people regardless of their level of expertise in the subject. Now one can not only know well what the US forces do across the globe, the government expenditures, or the number of casualties in New Orleans, but also how to make a dirty bomb, or how to poison your neighbor without getting caught. In the following essay I will speak about the advantages and disadvantages of having health and wellness information freely available on the web with some of the major issues being considered. I…

Espionage means an activity when a government, a company, or an individual comes across or trying to come across information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of whoever possesses it. Such an activity by definition occurs in secret, because it is generally considered unwelcome and, in many cases, is illegal and punishable. Espionage is spying. A similar activity in the time of war is treason. It is not known exactly when the first espionage took place, but we know that since there have been secrets, there have been spies.

Psychometrics is a statistical discipline that deals with the techniques of measuring psychological phenomena such as knowledge, skills, attitudes, traits, and personal characteristics. The subjects of psychomotorics’ research are typically the differences between individuals or between groups of individuals. As an auxiliary science, psychometrics is used within the marketing, developmental psychology, and other social sciences. The main psychometrics’ research area is formulating and refining the theoretical underpinnings of the measure itself, as well as developing and refining specific psychometric’ measuring instruments.

The issue of non-human animals having consciousness has important philosophical implications, not least for their moral status. It is controversial and positions are diverse, from Descartes’s view that animals can be likened to dispassionate and unconscious machines to the theories that attribute to the animal rich cognitive abilities. The topic has gained renewed relevance since the latter part of the 20th century, when the so-called “cognitive revolution” took place. Experiments that have been performed suggest that some animals, such as chimpanzees, have a far more developed mentally life than previously thought, although they still differ greatly from humans. A crucial distinction in question is the one between consciousness and self-consciousness,…

Pharmacotherapy is a treatment using drugs or other pharmacological agents. A similar notion of chemotherapy refers to the pharmacotherapy in oncology. Pharmacotherapy is a conservative (non-invasive) treatment. Pharmacotherapy is also a subdivision of pharmacology, which studies the drug therapy.

Crowdsourcing is a method to solve problems with, or seek proposals for solving problems from many other partners. It has largely become possible with Web 2.0. The concept involves a wider range of ideas, faster solutions to complex problems and are often economically beneficial part of a project. Crowdsourcing is a project of open innovation, individual providers is its opposite and involves few people, such as parent-teacher meetings.

Genetic screening is a screening of asymptomatic population to identify persons who have (arguably) a given genotype. We will take for our study the definition of the Dutch Health Council:, according to which genetic screening is an examination carried out on human beings for purposes of screening or early systematic exclusion of hereditary disease, predisposition to this disease or the porting of this predisposition that may induce a hereditary disease affecting the offspring, regardless of the type of examination whereby this is achieved. This definition includes therefore the three distinctive features of the genetic screening: it’s a hereditary illness (predisposition or carrier status); It is not a request of assistance…