Introduction In his seminal work Effectiveness and Efficiency, Archie Cochrane asked why, despite their enormous potential, randomized trials were much less widely used that they should be. At the time that he was writing, their geographical distribution was very uneven. He wrote ‘If some such index as the number of RCTs per 1,000 doctors per year for all the countries of the world were worked ...

Background Influenza and influenza-like illness place significant burden on the NHS. Children with underlying health conditions are vulnerable to developing bacterial complications. Objective To strengthen evidence base antibiotic use in at-risk children illness. Design This programme comprised five separate work packages. Work package A investigated published unpublished data from previously l...

This research discusses Starbucks Indonesia's Greener Nusantara program as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in responding to the phenomenon of plastic waste that is currently an issue sustainable development. aims describe and examine implementation Nusantara's CSR at Coffee Banjarmasin toward development from perspective Triple Bottom Line. focuses on Archie B. Carroll's pyramid measure...

Introduction In his seminal work Effectiveness and Efficiency, Archie Cochrane asked why, despite their enormous potential, randomized trials were much less widely used that they should be. At the time that he was writing, their geographical distribution was very uneven. He wrote ‘If some such index as the number of RCTs per 1,000 doctors per year for all the countries of the world were worked ...

HE CLINICALNOTES that the late Dr. Thomas Archibald (Archie) Malloch recorde~ about Sir William Osler's last illness appeared in a previous Osler Library New.rletter (No. 47, October 1984), prepared 'by Harvey Blackman and Philip Teigen. When their work was in progress, they invited me to compose some comments on that illness from the point of view of an internist-cardiologist who graduated M.D...

The health care providers in the developing world have an uphill task of catering to the growing health care needs of a growing as well as graying population, all within the constraints of limited resources. While rapid and sustained growth in the economy and pharmaceutical industry in some developing countries like India is very opportune, the trickle-down effect of the economic growth may tak...

The microstructure of a porous medium and the physical characteristics of the solid and fluid phases determine the macroscopic transport properties of the medium. The purpose of this paper is to test numerical calculations of the geometrical and transport properties (electrical conductivity, permeability, specific surface area, and surface conductivity) of porous, permeable rocks, given their 3...