For Obligations we have terms and definitions in 6 topics. The topics are Accounting, Accounting Terms, Advocacy, Congressional, Ethics and Legal Ethics.

Obligations (Accounting)

Any amount which may require payment by an entity at a future time.

Obligations (Accounting Terms)

Any amount which may require payment by an entity at a future time.

Obligations (Advocacy)

Orders placed, contracts awarded, services received and similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or future period. Such amounts include outlays for which obligations had not been previously recorded and reflect adjustments for differences between obligations previously recorded and actual outlays to liquidate those obligations.

Obligations (Congressional)

Orders placed, contracts awarded, services received and similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or future period. Such amounts include outlays for which obligations had not been previously recorded and reflect adjustments for differences between obligations previously recorded and actual outlays to liquidate those obligations.

Obligations (Ethics)

Requirements arising from a person's situation or circumstances (e.g., relationships, knowledge, position) that specify what must or must not be done for some moral, legal, religious, or institutional reasons. For example, students have an obligation see their advisor on or before Registration Day. People have a moral obligation to keep their promises. Notice that usually statements of obligations specify what acts are required or forbidden without reference to the consequences of performing the act (except in so far as these consequences are a part of the characterization of the act itself - for example, killing is an act that results in death). However, occasionally you will see such statements as "engineers have an obligation in their work to ensure the public safety," which mean that engineers are morally required to ensure the public safety but which do not specify what acts they should or should not perform in order to ensure safety. A legal obligation is a legal requirement that specifies what types of actions are permitted, forbidden, or required on legal grounds. Often legal obligations are monetary debts. When we speak of an obligation without specifying its nature we will mean a moral obligation.

Obligations (Legal Ethics)

Requirements arising from a person's situation or circumstances (e.g., relationships, knowledge, position) that specify what must or must not be done for some moral, legal, religious, or institutional reasons. For example, students have an obligation see their advisor on or before Registration Day. People have a moral obligation to keep their promises. Notice that usually statements of obligations specify what acts are required or forbidden without reference to the consequences of performing the act (except in so far as these consequences are a part of the characterization of the act itself - for example, killing is an act that results in death). However, occasionally you will see such statements as "engineers have an obligation in their work to ensure the public safety," meaning that engineers are morally required to ensure the public safety but without specifying what acts they should or should not perform in order to ensure safety.
A legal obligation is a legal requirement that specifies what types of actions are permitted, forbidden, or required on legal grounds. Often legal obligations are monetary debts. When we speak of an obligation without specifying its nature we will mean a moral obligation.
Office of Regulatory Affairs. The office that investigates allegations of misconduct in regulated research monitored by the FDA. It focusses on testing and evaluating human and animal drugs, good and feed additives, and human biological products and medical devices. The jurisdiction of the ORI and this office may overlap if research is supported by PHS grants.
Official responsibility. The responsibility that one is assigned as a result of one's job or office. Of course, official responsibilities might require one to behave unethically--"it was my job" is not a valid excuse for immoral behavior. However, even when the requirements of an official responsibility are ethically acceptable, the concept of an official responsibility functions differently from moral responsibility. Official responsibility resembles moral responsibility in generating prescriptions for conduct--duties, or at least statements about what someone "ought" to do. As philosopher John Ladd points out, moral and official responsibility differ in at least two respects: First, official responsibilities are exclusionary--if one person has a particular official responsibility, another person does not (unless, of course, it was part of the job description of both). Second, official responsibilities, together with whatever rights, duties and requirements for accountability attend them, are all alienable (see rights)--they can be given to or taken over by someone else. In contrast, if one has a moral responsibility to inform the public about some matter, then even if one is in the position to delegate that responsibility to someone else, one still must see that the responsibility is fulfilled, because one does not get rid of a moral responsibility by giving it to someone else.
OPRR. Office for the Protection from Research Risks. An arm of the NIH responsible for responding to allegations of misuse of human and animal subjects in research support by HHS. Allegations in this area involve improper care of research animals, the failure to obtain informed consent from human subjects, mistreatment of human and animal subjects in research, and the failure to get approval from an institutional review board or animal care committee.
ORI. Office of Research Integrity. The entity that handles allegations of scientific misconduct that involve HHS-supported research and that fit within the definition: "Scientific misconduct or misconduct in science means fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and other practices that seriously deviate from commonly accepted practices within the scientific community for proposing, conducting, and reporting research. It does not include honest error or honest diferences in interpretations or judgments of data."

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