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  1. Feb 2022
    1. The paper did not seem to have consent from participants for: (a) Agreeing to participate in the different types of interventions (which have the potential of hurting the health of citizens and could even lead to their death.); (b) using their personal health data to publish a research paper.

      Given that the authors are government actors who can easily access millions of citizens and put them in the study groups they desire, without even telling citizens that they are in a study, I worry that this practice will be popularized by governments in Latin America and put citizens in danger.

      I also want to note that this is a new type of disinformation where government actors can post content on these repositories and given that most citizens do NOT know it is NOT peer reviewed it can help the government actors to validate their public policy. The research paper becomes political propaganda and the international repository helps to promotes the propaganda.

  2. Aug 2021
    1. What are the best features of Agra Etawah **[Toll Road Project]

      On September 1, 2015, the NHAI and AETPL (AE Tollway Private Limited) (a Concessionaire), a SPV of IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd., went into a Concession Agreement to make, work and keep up the Agra Etawah Bypass NH 2 Project. The franchise season of the Project is quite a while from the Appointed Date. The Concessionaire is allowed to accrue the exhorted customer cost from the road customers during this period. AETPL was completed to grow a 124.52 Km part of NH 2 among Agra and Etawah in Uttar Pradesh from four ways to six ways on a BOT evidence or a DBFOT plan. Agra Etawah Toll Road Project contains the share of NH 2 from km 199.66 to 323.525

      The project features are as under:

      124.52 km of six-way carriageway 747 Lane km 84.725 km of organization road 30.282 km of slip road 3 huge expansions 30 minor expansions 7 flyovers 7 rail course over-ranges 3.08 km uproar impediments 44.68 km edified stretch with streetlights 213 courses 12 vehicular underpasses 10 light vehicle underpasses 6 man by walking underpasses 164 assemblies 4 truck lay byes 22 vehicle straights 2 toll cost courts – FASTag pleasing Rs.3,244 Crs is the Project Cost 24 Years is the Concession Period

      Path depiction:

      NH 2, for the most part implied as Delhi–Kolkata Street, is a clamoring National Highway in India that energies through the states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. Agra Etawah Toll Road Project is important for the most objective decided and famous Golden Quadrilateral project strived by the NHAI. The project highway goes through Agra, Firozabad, Mainpuri and Etawah area in the State of Uttar Pradesh. Serious towns/metropolitan payments obviously are Agra, Etmadpur, Firozabad, Shikohabad, Jaswantnagar and Etawah. Agra is a perceptible spot in the crusade business map with three heritage milestones – Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Red post and the fourth world inheritance site is bird refuge at Bharatpur National Park. Akbar's Tomb in Sikandra and Itmad–ud Daula's interment place have been proposed for a world heritage site task.

      Agra Etawah Toll Road Project

  3. Jan 2020
    1. You do not process your projects through an Institutional Review Board, nor you are equipped to deal with persons who express trauma to you.

      This is a valid concern that needs to be addressed. While some engineers certainly do use IRB for their projects, it is not nearly as common as it should be.

  4. Jun 2016
    1. demanding that technologies designed for a group of people be designed and built, in part, by those people

      Despite some differences, it sounds a bit like the standard by which risks and benefits of research are measured in terms of a given population. Since the troublesome Tuskegee syphilis experiments, it has led to the evaluation of “fair or just distribution of risks and benefits to eligible participants” (WP). The connection may be a little bit strained, especially since Zuckerman is talking about pragmatic issues instead of ethical ones. But there’s some insight in this line of thought, IMHO.