embedding health technology assessment (hta) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. however, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. in this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. we first present the misconce...

In the modern world, search engines are an integral part of human lives. The field Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with finding material (usually documents) unstructured nature text) that satisfies information need (query) from within large collections stored on computers). engine then displays a ranked list results relevant to our query. Traditional document retrieval algorithms match ...

BACKGROUND: Exploring the professional values and educational needs of future practicing mental health specialists is required to develop effective measures aiming at improving their skills interest in work.
 AIM: Our aim was explore Russia.
 METHODS: We conducted a survey that captured socio-demographic data, characteristics, values, needs. Fisher's exact test, logistic regression, k...

This study aims to conduct a preliminary on the analysis of needs junior high school students for development video demonstration science practicum oriented critical thinking temperature and its changes. research was conducted using Plomp model which consists three stages including (initial investigation stage), prototyping stage (prototype formation), assessment phase (assessment stage). In th...

This study provides an analysis of the existing relationship between culture, entrepreneurship, and orientation towards innovation at national level. Drawing on creation Artificial Neural Network, using a sample 37 countries, this paper aims to catalogue each country as innovation-oriented or non-innovation-oriented considering six cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede’s model country´s entr...

This study aimed to identify, describe, and compare consumer segments based on food- health-related values traits how the are related functional food consumption. A hybrid hierarchical k-means clustering approach was used identify homogeneous innovativeness, self-control, hedonic eating values, convenience orientation, health importance, weight management concern. Based a representative sample ...

We conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature focused on conducting community health needs assessments and highlighted the necessary steps to conduct a community health needs assessment in a rural community. From the literature review, we identified three steps necessary— establishing partnerships, using a mixed methods approach, and disseminating results—to successfully conduct a needs...

this study builds on laufer and hulstijn’s (2001) motivational-cognitive construct of task-induced involvement in learning vocabulary and addresses itself to its strong claim that the depth of processing is the overriding factor in learning words. the paper first re-examines the effect of processing load and then of task type on the initial learning and retention of words. to do so, 60 efl lear...

In this article, we explore the concept of consumption corridors as it might apply to energy use, with specific attention both wellbeing and power relations. We employ distinction between provisioning human-need satisfaction different configurations well their possible dynamics. Specifically, draw on past research documenting benefits decoupling our thinking about services needs use a basis ide...