BACKGROUND The size and increasing burden of disease due to mental disorders in Europe poses substantial challenges to its population and to the health policy of the European Union. This warrants a specific research agenda concerning clinical mental health research as one of the cornerstones of sustainable mental health research and health policy in Europe. The aim of this research was to ident...

In this paper we formalize an approach to knowledge that we call Interrogative Epistemology, in the spirit of Hintikka’s “interrogative model” of knowledge. According to our approach, an agent’s knowledge is shaped and limited by her interrogative agenda (as defined by her fundamental questions or “epistemic issues”). The dynamic correlate of this postulate is our Selective Learning principle: ...

Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for Effective Cooperation (2011), and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) (2011). More recently, in 2015, the A...

Background. The sports industry has been transformed through digitalization processes. One traditional area of sports marketing strategy that has changed significantly is sponsorship. Objectives. To reveal how digitalization has impacted sports sponsorship strategies according to the findings of academic articles in leading sports management journals. In light of the dramatic transformation of...

As the electronic data generated by health systems improves, health care executives are beginning to ask whether they should build an internal research function in their organization, and if they do, how they can ensure both academic excellence and that the research is relevant to the strategic interests of their organization. This report documents the experience of three health systems that ha...

Timely detection and response to catastrophic events during the launch and ascent phase of the Ares I launch system is of paramount importance to crew safety. This requires an abort system capable of detecting and confirming conditions that may lead to catastrophic failure, notifying the crew of the problem, and responding in time to allow the crew to escape safely. The Ares I Abort Failure Det...

Analysts in many areas of national security face a massive (high volume), dynamically changing (high velocity) flood of possibly relevant information. Identifying reasonable suspects confronts a tension between data that is too atomic to be diagnostic and knowledge that is too complex to guide search. DREEM (Dynamic Data Relevance Estimation by Exploring Models) is a knowledge-based metaheurist...

In 2016, the International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs convened a meeting titled "Rethinking alcohol interventions in health care". The aims of the meeting were to synthesize recent evidence about screening and brief intervention and to set directions for research, practice, and policy in light of this evidence. Screening and brief intervention is efficacious in red...

OBJECTIVE The capability to share data, and harness its potential to generate knowledge rapidly and inform decisions, can have transformative effects that improve health. The infrastructure to achieve this goal at scale--marrying technology, process, and policy--is commonly referred to as the Learning Health System (LHS). Achieving an LHS raises numerous scientific challenges. MATERIALS AND M...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the influence of the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) on the competitiveness of European countries. Over the last 30 years, the development and usage of ICT has increased. In order to investigate the impact of ICT on the competi‐ tiveness of European countries, we conducted a panel regression analysis. We collected data for the per...