Word: informative
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...Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla., and co-sponsored by the respected University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. It had been approved by the university's institutional review board, or IRB, a body set up to ensure that such trials meet federal standards for experimental design--including the obligation to inform participants of any safety issues. And it had been given the green light by the FDA itself...
...past, the Faculty has been divided over whether the College has a responsibility to inform potential employers and graduate schools of the relative worth of a Harvard grade...
...notion that his purpose in this world was to do God’s work, namely destroying demons and expelling them from the earth. Hence, he was the original “God’s Hand.” Angels in hallucinations visit Dad during the day to inform him of the next targets, and armed with a divinely supplied axe, lead pipe and garden gloves, he dispatches his victims and buries them in the rose garden of a neighbouring church. Worst of all, Dad enlists the aid of his sons Fenton and Adam and forces them to watch...
...although this slim volume is not an easy read, it would be unfair to simply deny Marcus credit for his sincere attempt to “invent new uses of language.” If the premise of fiction is that an exploration of what was never real can inform our understanding of what is and might be real, then Notable American Women certainly has an intriguing contribution to offer. Unfortunately, Marcus’ inventiveness seems to be a double-edged sword, which means that his contribution is limited to an intellectual realm in which “hugely emotional?...
...failure to inform human subjects of their rights is unpardonable. The convoluted legal terms of the consent forms, said some peasants, were far too complicated for them to understand. Sometimes the forms were only provided months after the actual research took place, showing blatant disregard for the ethical standard of informed consent. “Information must be presented to enable persons to voluntarily decide whether or not to participate as a research subject,” stipulates the Office for Human Research Protections of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. There is no excuse for these standards...