The globalisation of tobacco marketing, trade, research, and industry influence represents a major threat to public health worldwide. Drawing upon tobacco industry strategy documents prepared over several decades, this paper will demonstrate how the tobacco industry operates as a global force, regarding the world as its operating market by planning, developing, and marketing its products on a g...

BACKGROUND The relationship between health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry has become a source of controversy. Physicians' attitudes towards the industry can form early in their careers, but little is known about this key stage of development. METHODS AND FINDINGS We performed a systematic review reported according to PRISMA guidelines to determine the frequency and nature of me...

Over the last few years, many European and North American countries have reported a high rate of disorders (mortality, dwindling and disappearance) affecting honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera). Although beekeeping has become an increasingly professional activity in recent years, the beekeeping industry remains poorly documented in Europe. The European Union Reference Laboratory for Honeybee Hea...

Compliance standards are necessary to ensure that enterprises adhere to important laws and regulations concerning their business. To overcome the diversity of laws and regulations, software companies have promised to support the enterprises by appropriate software solutions. Consequently, new compliance management systems have been brought to the market and existing business applications have b...

In light of the transformation to cyber-physical production systems in Industry 4.0, the increasing trend of digitalization and product customization together with the demographic changes in Germany reveal a clear need for supporting the employees’ sustainable competences development at the workplace. In this context, technology-enhanced learning environments provide new approaches for developi...

The article presents the first results of a PhD study connected to testing of safety critical medical devices: a systematically executed case study at a Hungarian manufacturer of medical devices. . The article shortly describes the process of testing currently being used. Elements of the testing approach less commonly applied in software industry are emphasized . The ending point of the actual ...

Identifying and developing project managers’ competencies arebecoming more and more important in today’s competitive market. This importance also has absorbed the attention of main project management institutions such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Australian institute of Project management (AIPM). These professional project management institutes have developed project managers’ comp...