The Funding statement is incorrect. The publisher apologizes for the error. The complete, correct Funding statement is: This work has been supported partially by a grant from Fundación de Investigación Médica Mutua Madrileña (ref number AP27072008), a grant from Universidad Europea de Madrid (project number 2013/UEM31) and by the help of Cátedra Florencio Tejerina-UEM in blood sample collection...

There is information missing from funding section of this paper. The funding section should read: This work was supported by the Health and Medical Research Fund (grants 13121282 and 12111232) and the Area of Excellence Scheme of the University Grants Committee (grant AoE/M-12/-06) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. The funders had no role in study design, data collectio...

Finland is one of the biggest exporters of paper and board in the world. A competitive forest industry is a necessity for the economy of the country. Strategic planning and decision making must cover the whole organization in the industry, where for example investments are extremely large. Therefore there is a need to synthesize all available knowledge, experience, and expertise. Substantively ...

The innovation of supply chain financial services can alleviate the plight of SMEs financing difficulties. In the aspect of supply chain finance model, there is a credit guarantee financing model, which is different from the simple external financing and internal financing mode of supply chain. Based on this, this paper studies the decision-making of supply chain finance under the partial credi...

The unique characteristics of emerging economies give rise to profitable business opportunities and also raise practical challenges to realizing those opportunities. The ongoing internationalization of these economies regularly brings to light such opportunities and challenges and propels critical reviews of regulatory policy. The impact of this complex and dynamic setting on corporate decision...

The unique characteristics of emerging economies give rise to profitable business opportunities and also raise practical challenges to realizing those opportunities. The ongoing internationalization of these economies regularly brings to light such opportunities and challenges and propels critical reviews of regulatory policy. The impact of this complex and dynamic setting on corporate decision...

Most economic evaluations that participate in decision-making processes for incorporation and financing of technologies of health systems use decision models to assess the costs and benefits of the compared strategies. Despite the large number of economic evaluations conducted in Brazil, there is a pressing need to conduct an in-depth methodological study of the types of decision models and the...

Consider a decision support system for capital asset acquisitions (Wallingford and Sticklen 1985). The system helps users decide whether to purchase an asset or lease it from another company. Each of these alternatives leads to more specific decisions, such as whether to structure a leasing arrangement as a direct lease, a leveraged lease, or a conditional sale. All of these decisions depend on...

INTRODUCTION Rational decision making on malaria control depends on an understanding of the epidemiological risks and control measures. National Malaria Control Programmes across Africa have access to a range of state-of-the-art malaria risk mapping products that might serve their decision-making needs. The use of cartography in planning malaria control has never been methodically reviewed. M...

BACKGROUND Funding agencies constitute one essential pillar for policy makers, researchers and health service delivery institutions. Such agencies are increasingly providing support for science implementation. In this paper, we investigate health research funding agencies and how they support the integration of science into policy, and of science into practice, and vice versa. METHODS We sele...