Transitioning Responsibly Toward a Circular Bioeconomy: Using Stakeholder Workshops to Reveal Market Dependencies

Using Language More Responsibly

C reating a common language provides one of a social enter-prise's defining moments, be it a technical, scientific, or humanistic venture. The lan-guage's most obvious utility derives from its allowing a field's participants to communicate among themselves. Its importance extends beyond this function , however. More than a neutral medium through which we exchange information , language serves t...

Market Power in a Transitioning Electric Industry

Transitioning to a national health system in Cyprus: a stakeholder analysis of pharmaceutical policy reform

OBJECTIVE To review the pharmaceutical sector in Cyprus in terms of the availability and affordability of medicines and to explore pharmaceutical policy options for the national health system finance reform expected to be introduced in 2016. METHODS We conducted semi-structured interviews in April 2014 with senior representatives from seven key national organizations involved in pharmaceutica...

A Genetic-DEA Approach to Reveal Property Rights Priorities

Importation Closure that is Robust to Circular Dependencies

Any approach to the integration of distributed knowledge bases (KBs) through importation must make design decisions regarding circular importation dependencies: are they disallowed, ignored, or allowed? If they are allowed, how is the resulting infinite loop of importation handled in practice? We present preliminary results of Importations (http://athant.com/projects/Importation/), an explorati...