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El Séptimo Programa Marco de la Comisión Europea (CE) es uno de los programas de investigación y desarrollo más importantes financiados con fondos públicos.ResumenAdemás de la valoración científica de cada proyecto, las cuestiones éticas planteadas en éstos se evalúan de acuerdo con la legislación europea actual y los principios éticos establecidos en las declaraciones internacionales respaldadas por los estados miembros. Esta evaluación ética está organizada por la Unidad de Gobernanza y Ética (Dirección General de Investigación de la CE), si bien la realizan profesionales de diversos sectores y procedencias que se registran voluntariamente en una base de datos(AU)
The Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (EC) is one of the most important instruments for public funding of research and technological development.AbstractBesides the scientific assessment of each proposal, the ethical issues raised in them are evaluated in accordance with the current European legislation and the ethical principles laid down in the international declarations supported by Member States. Such ethical review is organized by the Governance and Ethics Unit (Directorate-General for Research), although it is done by professionals from different sectors and backgrounds who register themselves voluntary in a database(AU)
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Humans , Male , Female , Bioethics/trends , Bioethical Issues/standards , Ethics, Research/education , Mass Screening , Technological Development/methods , Technological Development/policies , Research/methods , Research/organization & administration , Research/statistics & numerical data , European Union/organization & administration , European Union/statistics & numerical data , Europe/epidemiology , /methods , /organization & administration , Technological Development/ethicsABSTRACT
The Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (EC) is one of the most important instruments for public funding of research and technological development. Besides the scientific assessment of each proposal, the ethical issues raised in them are evaluated in accordance with the current European legislation and the ethical principles laid down in the international declarations supported by Member States. Such ethical review is organized by the "Governance and Ethics" Unit (Directorate-General for Research), although it is done by professionals from different sectors and backgrounds who register themselves voluntary in a database.
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Ethical Review , Ethics, Research , European UnionABSTRACT
We combine the formulation of Mandelbaum [Mandelbaum, A. (1986) Probab. Theory Rel. Fields 71, 129-147] with ideas from Whittle [Whittle, P. (1980) J. R. Stat. Soc. B 42, 143-149] to obtain a simple and constructive proof for the optimality of Gittins index processes in the general, nonmarkovian dynamic allocation (or "multi-armed bandit") problem. Our approach also provides an explicit expression for the value of this problem.
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The problem is that of following the Brownian path by a nondecreasing, bounded process in such a way as to minimize the expected cost over a finite horizon. Using purely probabilistic arguments, one obtains a fairly explicit representation for the value of this problem, as well as information about the nature of the optimal process.
