A Call for Ecologically Informed Policy to Address Sex Work

A Call for a Backward Design to Knowledge Translation

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...

Ecologically informed values of Biodiversity for Conservation and Restora - tion

A list of “ecologically informed values” of biodiversity is introduced. These aspects have rarely been the object of normative treatments. Ecologists introduced these scientific concepts as “values”, even though they are based on factual information only. Thus, ecological evaluation often remains implicit or personal. Besides diversity also complementarity, rarity, threat, irreplaceability, and...

a new approach to credibility premium for zero-inflated poisson models for panel data

هدف اصلی از این تحقیق به دست آوردن و مقایسه حق بیمه باورمندی در مدل های شمارشی گزارش نشده برای داده های طولی می باشد. در این تحقیق حق بیمه های پبش گویی بر اساس توابع ضرر مربع خطا و نمایی محاسبه شده و با هم مقایسه می شود. تمایل به گرفتن پاداش و جایزه یکی از دلایل مهم برای گزارش ندادن تصادفات می باشد و افراد برای استفاده از تخفیف اغلب از گزارش تصادفات با هزینه پائین خودداری می کنند، در این تحقیق ...

Tobacco harm reduction: a call to address the ethical dilemmas.

The 2001 Institute of Medicine report Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction has helped to focus attention on the scientific basis for assessing tobacco harm reduction products. As the tobacco research and policy communities tackle the challenges of evaluating harm reduction, there are ethical issues that must also be addressed. There has, however, been very l...

Trump’s Zero-tolerance Policy: Would a Political Response to a Humanitarian Crisis Work?