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Paying for Pharmaceutical Care
No full textThis chapter aims to provide a summary of different approaches to the payment of pharmaceutical care that have been adopted in selected countries. Each of them is described in brief, with the ultimate goal of highlighting the pros and cons of each approach. The second part of the chapter elaborates on a possible solution to make pharmaceutical care not only a clinical activity which is essential to ensure the patient receives optimal therapy to attain better outcomes, but also to transform this practice into a profitable service. We believe this option is essential for pharmaceutical care to flourish worldwide
Factores críticos en la intención de compra de alimentos orgánicos: caso de estudio en consumidores del área metropolitana de Lima, Perú.
Full text linkActualmente, el Perú cuenta con una gran oportunidad de lograr un posicionamiento
relevante como país orgánico. Posterior a la aprobación de la Ley de Promoción de la
Producción Orgánica o Ecológica, se evidencia en el mercado peruano una mayor
preocupación del consumidor por realizar actividades que contribuyan con el cuidado del
ambiente a través del aumento en la compra de alimentos orgánicos. En la investigación
realizada, pregunta general fue ¿Cuál es el efecto de la preocupación por la seguridad
alimentaria, a preocupación ambiental y la preocupación por una vida saludable, mediado
por la actitud hacia los alimentos orgánicos, sobre la intención de compra de alimentos
orgánicos en consumidores del área Metropolitana de Lima, Perú?
Por lo anterior, el objetivo fue determinar el efecto de la preocupación por la seguridad
alimentaria, a preocupación ambiental y la preocupación por una vida saludable, mediado
por la actitud hacia los alimentos orgánicos, sobre la intención de compra de alimentos
orgánicos en consumidores del área Metropolitana de Lima, Perú
The Circular Economy:A Critique of the Concept
Full text linkThe circular economy is an increasingly influential school of sustainable economic thinking, dominating recent five-year plans in Chinese policy and regularly featuring the sustainability discourse in the European Union and beyond. It is often said that the history of a concept tells us more about it than the concept itself, so we begin by contextualizing the circular economy through its historical development. We then compare and contrast the two dominant geopolitical versions of the circular economy, the Chinese and Western (European) models, identifying differences and issues in underlying principles. Particular attention is paid to the impact of populist economics and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dual Circulation Strategy of the 14th Five-Year Plan is then examined. In order to explore the current and future prospects for the circular economy, we explore the Earth system, on which, ultimately, our species relies upon. By teasing apart its functionality, two levels of organization emerge: local and global. The chapter ends by exploring the concept of sustainable economics and concludes by identifying the key characteristics of such a concept
X Economies: Towards Comprehensive Policy Intelligence Among Economy Visions and Practices in Europe and Latin America
No full textWe observe a proliferation of various economic visions and practices (e.g., Blue Economy, Circular Economy, Digital Economy, Social Economy). In this chapter, we conceptualize such newly proposed economy visions and practices as specific cases of a general meta-level concept, X economies, and introduce an indicator-based emphasis on the interactions among them to attain comprehensive sustainability outcomes. “X economies", as technologies of economy, are being proposed as systemic and societal fixes to various ills of the current political-economic system at the socio-technical regime level, yet the role and the importance of the interactions among them to substitute it as an alternative in-the-making are overlooked in the literature. To this end, we constructed X Economies Index (XEI), which quantifies how countries in Europe and Latin America perform in each X economy’s environmental, social, governmental, economic, and scientific dimensions, including their interactions. XEI covers in total 58 indicators for 48 countries in Europe and Latin America. The results emphasize the need for comprehensive policy intelligence for human-centered governance of the interactions among X economies to create further positive impact and accelerate multiple system transitions, societal transformations, and change
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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