BACKGROUND Tobacco companies use colour on cigarette packaging and labelling to communicate brand imagery, diminish health concerns, and as a replacement for prohibited descriptive words ('light' and 'mild') to make misleading claims about reduced risks. METHODS We analysed previously secret tobacco industry documents to identify additional ways in which cigarette companies tested and manipul...

Fiduciary law is highly instructive about the limits of what may be agreed to by physician-researchers and sponsor drug companies when their agreements implicate the interests of patients who volunteer as subjects in clinical trials. On October 26, 2001, the Report of the Committee of Inquiry on the Case Involving Dr. Nancy Olivieri, the Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto and...

KYOKUGEN, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan JST, Transformative Research-Project on Iron Pnictides (TRIP), Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan ISSP, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, C...

Keita Kobayashi,1 Masahiko Machida,1,2 Yukihiro Ota,3 and Franco Nori3,4 1CCSE, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8587, Japan 2Computational Materials Science Research Team, RIKEN AICS, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan 3CEMS, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 4Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA (Received 2 October 2013; revise...

Fabio Marchesoni,1,2 Sergey Savel’ev,2,3 Masashi Tachiki,4 and Franco Nori2,5 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy 2Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 3Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom 4National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan 5Departm...

Interlocking directorates is a major element in corporate governance system. Interlock occurs when a director of one company sits on the board of directors of other companies. This phenomenon has given rise to number of concerns in the economy. The relationships of some companies’ attributes and corporate interlocks in Kuwait Stock Exchange among publically listed companies are i...

Abstract Prescribing behavior of physicians affected by many factors. The present study is aimed at discovering the simultaneous effects of the evaluated factors (including: price, promotion and demographic characteristics of physicians) and quantification of these effects. In order to estimate these effects, Fluvoxamine (an antidepressant drug) was selected and the model was figured out by pan...

Based on the macroeconomic policies of the country regarding eliminating reliance on the sale of crude oil and in order to further develop the petrochemical industry and considering the special features of this industry including its technology based nature, facing fast changes and strong competition in the region, it is necessary for the active petrochemical companies to make plans with more i...

The aim of this research was to understand the strategic uses of e-business systems and technologies by classifying companies and particularly small and medium businesses according to demographics as well as e-business behavior variables.The study was based on data from a large quantitative survey of European E-business W@tch for the period 2007 using questionnaire interviews (N=409). We employ...

CONTEXT While exposure to and attitudes about drug company interactions among residents have been studied extensively, relatively little is known about relationships between drug companies and medical students. OBJECTIVE To measure third-year medical students' exposure to and attitudes about drug company interactions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS In 2003, we distributed a 64-item anony...