Leaders in health care and health care policy believe the U.S. must rein in the growth of health spending, and most believe it is possible over the next 10 years to maintain the current proportion of gross domestic product devoted to health care, the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey finds. Nearly all respondents (96%) agreed that spending must slow, ...

PRINCIPLES The literature has described opinion leaders not only as marketing tools of the pharmaceutical industry, but also as educators promoting good clinical practice. This qualitative study addresses the distinction between the opinion-leader-as-marketing-tool and the opinion-leader-as-educator, as it is revealed in the discourses of physicians and experts, focusing on the prescription of ...

This study aimed to identify the factors influencing adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technologies by paddy farmers in Sari County of Iran. A sample of 260 farmers who selected randomly, participated in this study through a survey questionnaire. Findings of the study revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between adoption of IPM technologies and farmers’ participa...

The study of formations and dynamics of opinions leading to the so-called opinion consensus is one of the most important areas in mathematical modelling of social sciences. Following the Boltzmann-type control approach recently introduced by the first two authors, we consider a group of opinion leaders who modify their strategy accordingly to an objective functional with the aim of achieving op...

Günümüzde rekabetin ve ürün çeşitliliğinin artması, işletmeler için; tüketici onun sergilediği davranışları daha da önemli hale getirmiştir. Tüketici, bu davranışlarında çeşitli kişi faktörlerden etkilenmektedir. Aile, arkadaş çevresi fikir liderleri etkileyicilerin başında gelmektedir. Son zamanlarda sosyal medya platformlarının kullanımının etkileyiciliğinin bir lideri olarak influencerları ö...

Consumers may observe previous consumers’ choices. They may follow their choices if they think these consumers are better informed. In turn, firms may concentrate on influencing the early consumers. This, in turn, changes the nature of early consumers’ choice behavior as a signal for other consumers. In this paper I show that firms’ influence activities need not distort earlier consumers’ decis...

advance in management of patients with STEMI. I particularly think that young patients with STEMI who have a very high thrombotic load will derive the greatest benefit from this stent.” I have used MGuard in patients with Acute Coronary syndrome. Most of the lesions were thrombus containing. I found it is effective against distal embolization and it enhances the achievement of optimal myocardia...

Opinion leaders can be defined as those who exert an unequal amount of influence on the decision of others. Two approaches for identifying opinion leadership have been i) to explicitly ask people to identify the personal sources from which they would accept advice and analyze the reasons behind such behavior, and ii) to identify the social relations between users in the social network in which ...

Individuals often refer to opinions of others when they make decisions in the real world. Our question is how the people's reference structure self-organizes when people try to provide correct answers by referring to more accurate agents. We constructed an adaptive network model, in which each node represents an agent and each directed link represents a reference. In every iteration round withi...