QALYs: The Math Doesn’t Work by Tia G. Sawhney, Angela Dobes, Sirimon O'Charoen

“…The assessments are used in the development of recommendations for pricing, formulary placement decisions, and health policy decisions. A new bill, H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023, was approved by the US House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee that will, if passed, end the practice of using QALYs in all federal programs.^1,2^ Proponents of the ban say that QALYs undervalue the positive effects of therapeutics on people with disabilities.^3^ We share their concerns. …”
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Regulation on the Implementation of Halal Product Assurance in Indonesia: Statute Approaches Study by Muhammad Aziz, Abdul Ghofur, Niswatin Nurul Hidayati

“…Second, halal product assurance regulations when viewed from the Statute Approach can be analyzed using three legal principles, consisting of (1) the principle of Lex Superior Derogat Legi Inferiori concluded that all halal product assurance rules that have a high position must replace all lower halal product assurance rules. (2) The principle of Lex Specialis Derogat Legi Generali confirmed that the Halal Product Assurance (JPH) Law was a specific regulation governing the assurance of halal products. …”
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A scoping review of the residual barriers to skilled birth attendance in Ghana: A conceptual framework and a fish bone analysis. by Juliet Abredu, Catherine K Dwumfour, Boo Alipitio, Mawusi Alordey, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku, Sophie Witter

“…More so, the 'free' delivery care policy should absorb all the costs associated with skilled delivery for pregnant women as it is intended for.…”
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Trust Management in Social Internet of Things (SIoT): A Survey by Sana Alam, Shehnila Zardari, Shaheena Noor, Shakil Ahmed, Haralambos Mouratidis

“…Our study presents a detailed discussion of all three steps. Trust computation and trust aggregation depend upon Trust Attributes (TAs) for the calculation of local and global trust values. …”
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Cervical cancer screening by cotesting method for Vietnamese women 25–55 years old: a cost-effectiveness analysis by Hien Thu Bui, Van Nu Hanh Pham, Thang Hong Vu

“…Costs and cost-effectiveness ratios were assessed using Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as the cost-effectiveness threshold (1–3 times GDP per capita). Sensitivity analyses (one-way deterministic and probabilistic) were conducted to account for uncertainties.Results The cotesting strategy was less effective and more costly than cytology-based screening across all age groups. …”
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Most prevalent jobs of young master’s degree graduates by detailed field of study by Marc Frenette, Tomasz Handler

“…Similar findings were registered for their male counterparts, as some of their most prevalent jobs included social policy researchers, consultants and program officers (15.3%); economists and economic policy researchers and analysts (8.6%); and program officers unique to government (8.0%). …”
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CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

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Legal interventions for perinatal depression in India: a qualitative study with clinical specialists having expertise in perinatal mental health by Ritika Behl, Vivek Nemane, Shashikala Gurpur

“…The findings were reported in alignment with the Standards of Reporting Qualitative Research checklist.Setting India.Participants 12 out of 38 invited CSs participated in the study. All invited participants either had a background in perinatal psychiatry or were experienced in working with the perinatal population and had undertaken evidence-based research regarding perinatal mental health (PMH), in the Indian setting.Results Five themes emerged from the collected data including (1) the epidemiology of PND in the Indian context, (2) the management of PND in India and the efficacy of the existing legal frameworks, (3) the need for legal interventions for addressing and managing PND in India, (4) role of legislative instruments, globally, in managing maternal PND and (5) advocacy for PMH by lawyers, and advocates in India.Conclusions The existing policy gap is associated with the violation of women’s rights. …”
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Understanding the Effect of an E-Hailing App Subsidy War on Taxicab Operation Zones by Zhixiang Fang, Rongxiang Su, Lian Huang

“…By comparing these changes before and after the subsidy war, this paper finds that the subsidy war influences the taxicabs in groups I and II, while it has little influence on the taxicabs in groups III and IV, although all groups were affected during the subsidy war. …”
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CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP AMONGST CORPORATE LONG-TERM FINANCING DECISIONS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF LISTED NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS by Jeremiah Babajide OPALEKE

“…Following this conclusion, the study recommends to concerned corporate and governmental decision makers that at all times the multiplier implications surrounding any of the three examined long-term financing decisions (i.e. capital investment, finance and dividend payout) on one another, and their joint effects on the firm’s, sectoral and economic stability, especially when seeking competitive edge and growth should be considered …”
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The Study and Pathology of Strategic Alignment and Its Effective Factors in the Field of Employment and Self-Sufficiency of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee by Ali Akbar Khademi, Hanieh Farazandeh

“…So, a significant gap exists between employees' current and favourable employment and self-sufficiency situations and the three factors mentioned. According to the results of the Friedman test, content factors with the most impact and structural factors with the most negligible impact are ranked.Originality/Value: Undoubtedly, the policies and strategies of an organization will be effective when there is a balance between the policy-maker and the planner and the executive body and or according to the common interpretation, alignment, and coordination of the master class is a necessary condition and a prerequisite for the success of the organization in achieving its goals.…”
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Environmental problems indicator under environmental modeling toward sustainable development by P. Sutthichaimethee, W. Tanoamchard, P. Sawangwong, P Pachana, N. Witit-Anun

“…If Thailand were to use a similar environmental problem indicator, it could be applied to formulate efficient policy and strategy for the country in three areas, namely social, economic, and environmental development.…”
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CULTURAL COUNCIL AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN CULTURE - NEW LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF MANAGEMENT AND FINANCING by Dragan Zlatović, Mirko Škarica, Ante Galić

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Evaluation of household expenditure in the united states: pre-covid and post-covid statistical analysis by Mobasshira Zaman

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Military Unmanned Systems: Current State, Prospects for Limitation and Control by M. G. Yevtodyeva, S. K. Oznobishchev

“…On the contrary, opposite trends are likely to prevail, including, among all, artificial adjustment of the unmanned systems to the categories of export products with relaxed requirements. …”
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Trends and constraints of utilization of preserved cowpea leaves among households in arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya: a convergent mixed method study by J. O. Owade, G. O. Abong’, M. W. Okoth, A. W. Mwang’ombe

“…Results The study found that the utilization of preserved forms of cowpea leaves in the in-season was by 58% of the respondents. Three quarters (73.6%) of the households could not get the vegetables from their own sources during scarcity, whereas 25% did not consume the vegetables at all at such times. …”
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A Study of an IT-Assisted Higher Education Model Based on Distributed Hardware-Assisted Tracking Intervention by Haijun Liu

“…Under the communication topology of the system as a directed graph, a multi-intelligent system dynamic model with grouping is established; i.e., the intragroup intelligence has the same dynamics but is different between groups, and all system dynamics are unknown. The proposed novel policy iterative algorithm is used to learn the optimal control protocol and achieve optimal consistency control. …”
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De la simulation à la simulation participative : apporter une vision intégrée de la rénovation urbaine aux aménageurs publics, à travers une démarche expérimentale by Anaïs Berry, Nicolas Becu, Onil Goubier, Nikolaos Papoulias, Nathalie Long, Didier Vye

“…The public and local stakeholders involved (policy services of the city, urban planning and environment services of municipalities and inter-municipal associations, providers of social housing) are asked to provide their expertise and advice. …”
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Facilitators and barriers to using smart TV among older adults in care settings: a scoping review protocol by Lillian Hung, Mario Gregorio, Karen Lok Yi Wong

“…It will consider literature on using smart TV with older adults in care settings. A three-step search strategy will be applied: (1) to identify keywords and index terms from MEDLINE and CINAHL; (2) to do a search using identified keywords and index terms across chosen databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, AgeLine, PsycINFO, Web of Science, ProQuest and Google) and (3) to hand search the reference lists of all selected literature for additional literature. …”
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A Comparative Evaluation of Public Road Transportation Systems in India Using Multicriteria Decision-Making Techniques by Anand Kumar, Gurmeet Singh, Omkarprasad S. Vaidya

“…The inferences drawn from the study can be leveraged for future policy formulations by the state government and local municipal corporations and for sharing best practices among the DMUs.…”
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