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Person who influences the opinions, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of others through

informal communication. [IRW] People who are instrumental in influencing other

people's attitudes or actions. (1)

 

(1) Glossary of communication, University of Jyväskylä

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The open-politics theory, a narrow application of open-source governance, combines

aspects of the free software and open content movements, promoting decision-making

methods claimed to be more open, less antagonistic, and more capable of determining

what is in the public interest with respect to public policy issues. It takes special care

for instance to deal with equity differences, geographic constraints, defamation versus

free political speech, accountability to persons affected by decisions, and the actual

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Open-source politics is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the

philosophies of the open source and open content movements to democratic principles

in order to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a wiki

document.

In recent years, expectations and definitions of open government have changed, now

that information is often freely and readily available via Internet. For example, a US

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request may result in a packet of documents mailed

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In medicine, the first appearance of the signs or symptoms of a disease or disorder.

 

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A disease that, by statutory requirements, must be reported to the public health

authority in the pertinent jurisdiction when a diagnosis is made. A disease deemed of

sufficient importance to public health to require that its occurrence be reported to

health authorities.

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Normative ethics is the study of ethical action. It is the branch of philosophical ethics

that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act,

morally speaking. Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines

standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the

meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts. (1)

 

(1) Wikipedia: Normative Ethics (Visited on 05 January 2015)

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), are not passed from person to person. They

are of long duration and generally slow progression. The four main types of

noncommunicable diseases are cardiovascular diseases (like heart attacks and

stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructed

pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes. (1)

 

(1) WHO: Non-communicable disease

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Avoiding the causation of harm; the healthcare professional should not harm the

patient. All treatment involves some harm, even if minimal, but the harm should not be

disproportionate to the benefits of treatment.

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Regularly published internal documents describing information of interest to employees

regarding an array of business and non-business issues affecting them. (1)

 

(1) Glossary of communication, University of Jyväskylä

 

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A story prepared for the media to share information and generate publicity. (1)

 

(1) Glossary of communication, University of Jyväskylä

 

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