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...

With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measure, this study tries to design an integrated PM model for pharmaceutical companies. For generating this model; we first identified the key performance indicators (KPIs) and the key result indicators (KRIs) of a typical pharmaceutical company. Then, based on experts᾽ opinions, the identified ...

Purpose This study aims to investigate whether United Kingdom (UK)-based companies have changed their voluntary disclosures on curbing the bribery of foreign officials in response UK Bribery Act 2010, and if so how such disclosure changes substantively reflected allegations by news media. Design/methodology/approach By using notions institutional pressure decoupling applying content thematic an...

The paper examines the causality between costs of (re)designing organizational structure transport companies operating in Republic Serbia and their competitiveness. research was conducted on sample 22 companies, applying Granger model causality. covers period from 2006 to 2020. primary goal is determine whether there a causal relationship that sacrifice competitiveness, which expressed by marke...

vol. 6, no. 1, 2014, ser. 66/3     extended abstract   explaining the relationship indices of the performance evaluation and rank performance with the growth of the companies   m. afshar                                          r. zamani amugheen molana higher education, abyek, qazvin   introduction        due tocompetition in the global economy and an increase in public awareness about the fin...

First impressions are powerful and rich sources of information about other people, and studies have demonstrated that they predict performance in numerous domains, such as teaching (Ambady & Rosenthal, 1993) and electoral success (Todorov, Mandisodza, Goren, & Hall, 2005). Much of this work, however, has employed outcome variables that are subjective. For example, in the study of teacher effect...

Abstract Monitoring land use efficiency (LUE) is of great importance for the sustainable development each country. The identification regions where consumption prevails over demographic growth should prompt public administrations to act and establish a recovery programme. This paper took Europe as research area, CORINE Land Cover statistical population data assess changes spatial diversity LUE ...

INTRODUCTION New tools for malaria control, artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) were recently introduced across India. We estimated the impact of universal coverage of ACT and ACT plus LLINs in a setting of hyperendemic, forest malaria transmission. METHODS We reviewed data collected through active and passive case detection in a vaccine trial coho...

Companies are taking advantage of the opportunities offered by globalisation to reach new markets and to lower their costs. It is common for large companies to establish overseas subsidiaries. The different legal regimes and law enforcement policies that exist in many developing economies and the current weaknesses of international regulation means that it can be difficult to hold international...