since the 1970s, services marketing has grown into a major sub discipline of marketing. it is constantly claimed – but is refuted in the article – that services are now the dominant economic activity in developed countries and keeps growing while the two traditional goods sectors, manufacturing and agriculture, are declining. in today's competitive world, having expertise, knowledge and ma...

Since the 1970s, services marketing has grown into a major sub discipline of marketing. It is constantly claimed – but is refuted in the article – that services are now the dominant economic activity in developed countries and keeps growing while the two traditional goods sectors, manufacturing and agriculture, are declining. In today's competitive world, having expertise, knowledge and marketi...

he traditional banking business has been to make long-term loans and fund them by issuing short-dated deposits, a process that is commonly described as “borrowing short and lending long.” In recent years, fundamental economic forces have undercut the traditional role of banks in financial intermediation. As a source of funds for financial intermediaries, deposits have steadily diminished in imp...

The activities have been carried out in the context of the project "Traditional Practices and Primary Health Care", developed by the Department of Traditional Medicine (DMT) of the INRSP and the Swiss NGO Antenna Technologies, with the support of PNLP and the participation of the international net RITAM. Aidemet Ong assured the coordination of the field activities, as so as the technical and fi...

According to some, the commercial bank -an institution that conducts the twin activities of accepting deposits payable on demand and originating loans -is anachronistic and in a state of terminal decline. The evidence, however, is somewhat mixed. This paper takes a different approach to analyzing the future of banks: I examine whether there is an economic rationale for their existing in the pas...

Recent nationwide initiatives to accelerate clinical and translational research, including comparative effectiveness research, will increasingly require clinician participation in research-related activities at the point-of-care, activities such as participant recruitment for clinical research studies and systematic data collection. A key element to the success of such initiatives that has not ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate and compare the economic costs of mental health-related discrimination in the domains of health care, relationships and participation in leisure activities in England between 2011 and 2014. METHOD A subsample of the Viewpoint survey was interviewed using the Costs of Discrimination Assessment Questionnaire in 2011 and 2014. Information on the impact of discrimination on ...