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  2. Beneficence (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    The antonym of this term, maleficence, describes a practice that opposes the welfare of any research participant. According to the Belmont Report, researchers are required to follow two moral requirements in line with the principle of beneficence: do not harm and maximize possible benefits for research while minimizing any potential harm on others.

  3. Prosocial behavior - Wikipedia

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    Prosocial behaviour [1] is a social behavior that "benefit[s] other people or society as a whole", [2] "such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering". The person may or may not intend to benefit others; the behaviour's prosocial benefits are often only calculable after the fact.

  4. Benefit - Wikipedia

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    Benefit (sports), a pre-retirement event to benefit a player; Benefit performance, entertainment to support a cause Benefit concert, or charity concert; Employee ...

  5. Altruism - Wikipedia

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    Giving alms to the poor is often considered an altruistic action.. Altruism is the concern for the well-being of others, independently of personal benefit or reciprocity.. The word altruism was popularised (and possibly coined) by the French philosopher Auguste Comte in French, as altruisme, for an antonym of egoism. [1]

  6. Probiotic - Wikipedia

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    Only products that contain live organisms shown in reproducible human studies to confer a health benefit may claim to be probiotic. [7] [139] [140] The correct definition of health benefit, backed with solid scientific evidence, is a strong element for the proper identification and assessment of the effect of a probiotic. This aspect is a ...

  7. What Is Cost-Benefit Analysis? - AOL

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    Today's term: cost-benefit analysis. Most of us are familiar with the term, and have a basic grasp of it. It refers to how a project or decision might be evaluated, comparing its costs with its ...

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

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