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Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
wiley   +1 more source

From Policy to Politics: Is there a Nordic Model for the regulation of alcohol and gambling? [PDF]

Nordisk Alkohol Nark
Marionneau V, Lindeman M, Cisneros Örnberg J, Karlsson T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

The impacts of the national volume-based procurement policy on the chronic disease medication market in China's public hospitals: a case study of medications for diabetes. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Wang B, Xiao K, Xia H, Yu Q, Wang G, Huang R, Niu J, Luo L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Maximizing the Economic, Environmental, and Social Impact of the Metaverse

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The metaverse is a transformative digital ecosystem with the potential to redefine economic, environmental, and social systems. This qualitative study examines how the metaverse and its enabling technologies—such as AR/VR, blockchain, and AI—might evolve to influence sustainability. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with global experts and
Alessandro Lanteri, Mark Esposito, Massimiliano Cappuccio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The High Cost of American Health Care: Understanding the Deeper Roots of the Crisis. [PDF]

Health Care Anal
Chang CF, Mirvis DM, Mahmood A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crystallography in Open Science and its open educational resources

Acta Crystallographica Section A, EarlyView.
Open Science is the movement to make scientific research, the data and their dissemination available to any member of an inquiring society, from professionals to citizens, irrespective of their economic situation. The IUCr provides fully open educational resources to Global South and Global North readers and authors.This article presents a review of ...
John R. Helliwell
wiley   +1 more source

Pakistan's first medicine price deregulation policy: assessing its impact on prices, affordability, and availability of oral anti-diabetic medicines in private pharmacies. [PDF]

Front Pharmacol
Saeed A, Shukar S, Yasin NA, Yang C, Jiang M, Aziz MM, Zahoor H, Sunnan-Ud-Din M, Fang Y, Babar ZU.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ectomycorrhizal community composition and extramatrical hyphal proportion predict soil carbon stocks at the landscape scale

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract While fungal composition has been linked to soil carbon at global scales, these patterns are often difficult to disentangle from broad climatic gradients and species range limits. To address this constraint, we tested which aspects of ectomycorrhizal community structure
Robert A. Barber, Benjamin C. Underwood, James J. Clarkson, Thomas D. Brekke, Thomas L. Weeks, Tim Wilkinson, Phil Wilkes, Gary Egan, Mark A. Lee, Isabel Openshaw, Guilherme Castro, Justin Moat, Martin I. Bidartondo, Laura M. Suz, Jill Kowal   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Players' strategy selection in co-governance and supervision of internet platforms' monopolistic behaviors: A study on new media participation. [PDF]

PLoS One
Song Y, Xia T.
europepmc   +1 more source