Using new electronic information products to fund others

How Should Global Fund Use Value-for-Money Information to Sustain its Investments in Graduating Countries?

It has been debated whether the Global Fund (GF), which is supporting the implementation of programs on the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, should consider the value-for-money (VFM) for programs/interventions that they are supporting. In this paper, we critically analyze the uses of economic information for GF programs, not only to ensure accountability to the...

Electronic Publishing or Electronic Information Handling? 1 a New Culture

The current dramatic evolution in information technology is bringing major mod i cations in the way scientists communicate The concept of electronic publishing is too restrictive and has often di erent sometimes con icting interpretations It is thus giving way to the broader notion of electronic information handling en compassing the diverse types of information the di erent media as well as th...

To fund or not to fund?

Funding agencies use many different criteria and peer review strategies to assess grant proposals.

To Cause Harm and to be Harmed by Others: New Perspectives on Alcohol’s Harms to Others

OBJECTIVE To examine how sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption are related to a four-way typology of causing harm to others and/or being harmed by others' and one's own drinking. DATA AND METHODS Data from the 2011 Danish national survey (n = 2,569) were analyzed with multi nomial logistic regression. RESULTS Younger age and heavy drinking were significant correlates of both caus...

Evaluation of Iranian electronic products manufacturing industries using an unsupervised model, ARAS, SAW, and DEA models