The New C Standard (Identifiers) An Economic and Cultural Commentary

The New C Standard (Introduction) An Economic and Cultural Commentary

The Conceptualization of Value in the Value Proposition of New Health Technologies; Comment on “Providing Value to New Health Technology: The Early Contribution of Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Regulatory Agencies”

Lehoux et al provide a highly valid contribution in conceptualizing value in value propositions for new health technologies and developing an analytic framework that illustrates the interplay between health innovation supply-side logic (the logic of emergence) and demand-side logic (embedding in the healthcare system). This commentary brings forth several considerations on this article. First, ...

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

A Higher Order Online Lyapunov-Based Emotional Learning for Rough-Neural Identifiers

o enhance the performances of rough-neural networks (R-NNs) in the system identification‎, ‎on the base of emotional learning‎, ‎a new stable learning algorithm is developed for them‎. ‎This algorithm facilitates the error convergence by increasing the memory depth of R-NNs‎. ‎To this end‎, ‎an emotional signal as a linear combination of identification error and its differences is used to achie...

Labonté Identifies Key Issues for Health Promoters in the New World Order; Comment on “Health Promotion in an Age of Normative Equity and Rampant Inequality”

For over 35 years Ronald Labonté has been critically analyzing the state of health promotion in Canada and the world. In 1981, he identified the shortcomings of the groundbreaking Lalonde Report by warning of the seductive appeal of so-called lifestyle approaches to health. Since then, he has left a trail of critical work identifying the barriers to — and opportunities for —health promotion wor...