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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong, Metin Çakır, Qingxiao Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A sociological approach to ageing, technology and health

, 2010
This special monograph issue builds on sociology of health and illness scholarship and expands the analytical lens to examine how old people, healthcare professionals, and technology designers create, use, and modify science and technology to negotiate ...
Joyce, Kelly, Loe, Meika
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional health: Understanding and definition

RUDN journal of Sociology
The concept of “emotional health” is actively discussed in the scientific community and is subject to various interpretations; the lack of its clear definition leads to the use of synonyms such as “emotional well-being” or “mental health” which do not ...
I. B. Nazarova, S. V. Lyalikova
doaj   +1 more source

Trust, regulatory processes and NICE decision-making: Appraising cost-effectiveness models through appraising people and systems. [PDF]

, 2015
This article presents an ethnographic study of regulatory decision-making regarding the cost-effectiveness of expensive medicines at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England.
Brown, Patrick R, Hashem, F., Hashem, Ferhana, Calnan, Michael, Brown, P., Calnan, M., Brown, P.; id_orcid   +6 more
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology, medicine and the construction of health-related sociology.

Revista de saude publica, 2009
Partindo de artigo publicado em 1971 sobre a aproximação entre sociologia e medicina, no Brasil e Reino Unido, foi realizada atualização histórica, com o fim de refletir sobre novas conformações do ensino e pesquisa das ciências sociais e humanas no campo da saúde em ambos os países.
Barros, Nelson Filice de, Nunes, Everardo Duarte   +1 more
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

HEALTH OF THE POPULATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION AS THE OBJECTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Вісник НЮУ імені Ярослава Мудрого: Серія: Філософія, філософія права, політологія, соціологія, 2019
Problem setting. Studying the factors that determine health shows that medicine is important along with biogenetic and environmental factors. However, the leading factors of health in modern conditions are the level and quality of life of people, the ...
Олеся Миколаївна Кириленко
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic measures in early old age as indicators of previous lifetime exposure to environmental health hazards

, 2000
The relationship between disadvantage in early old age and disadvantage earlier in life was investigated by collecting lifetime residential and occupational histories from 294 subjects aged between 63 and 78 years.
David Gunnell, Blane, David, Holland, Paula, Gunnell, David, Smith, GD, Paula Holland, Berney, Lee, Montgomery, S. M., Montgomery, SM, Smith, G. D., Blane, D, Davey Smith, George, Montgomery, Scott, Lee Berney, George Davey Smith, Gunnell, D. J., Berney, L, David Blane, Holland, P, Scott Montgomery, Gunnell, DJ   +20 more
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