BACKGROUND An organ-sharing system should achieve fairness and optimal graft longevity. Balancing between social and utilitarian considerations is a sensitive ethical, public and medical issue that requires a means to examine the consequences of any allocation policy or planned changes thereof. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance and applicability of a computerized simulation model by exami...

Qualified and healthy lifestyle consists of extensivebroad dimensions of physical health, resistance againstdiseases, fast recovery following disease, better socialcommunications, flexibility in facing social problems,better education, better interactions, stress management,transcendental individual and social behavior, as well asmorality. A variety of the contemporary academic studiesand scien...

Market transitions in the former Soviet Union and the Central and East European countries (the CEECs) have witnessed large-scale and widespread deterioration in social conditions (UNICEF, 1993, 1994, 1995; Milanovic, 1996). The worsening in social development indicators has been commonly viewed as an inevitable consequence of the severe economic decline as the concurrence of the two processes s...

We examine the impact of institutional quality and social capital on aid effectiveness. We find strong evidence that social capital and institutions enhance aid effectiveness. Moreover, once we account for the role of social capital and institutions, the impact of policies tend to disappear. These findings have important policy implications as they indicate that conditioning aid allocation on ‘...

Are we making the best use of laboratory computer systems? In this first issue of the 1983 volume of the Journal of Automatic Chemistry we can look back on a very successful first year with our new publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Their experience in scientific publishing has been of considerable value to me and the editorial team. We now have a well-produced, accepted and well-presented produc...

Dr. Jung-Gi Im served for five years as the Editor-inchief. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Korean Radiological Society back in the last decade, Dr. Im devoted himself to giving birth to this English journal. In the editorial of the inaugural issue in 2000, Dr. Im pronounced that his editorial policy was to meet global standards and trends in radiology combined with an EastAsian pe...

Remanufactured products offer better environmental benefits, and governments encourage manufacturers to remanufacture through various subsidy policies. This practice has shown that, in addition to product sales, remanufactured product can also achieve its value through social donation. Based on the remanufactured product value realization approaches, governments provide two kinds of incentive p...

We study whether people fail to choose e¢ cient policies (or institutions) and the reasons why such failure may arise. More precisely, we experimentally show that a large proportion of people vote against policies that would help them overcome social dilemmas. In addition, we show that this is linked to subjects failing to fully anticipate the equilibrium e¤ects of policies. By eliciting subjec...

Global health issues are focused on the search for social justice as a measure to mitigate negative effects of the neoliberal economic development model, which several countries have adopted, on the populations’ living and health conditions. In that context, health has been characterized by sanitary voids, resulting from combined effects and structural adjustments, besides the interferences of ...