The Pentagon is "captured by the so-called 'Big Five' defense contractors," she said, while U.S. policy is being driven by their desire for profits, not any consideration of values or strategy.
Which is why some News Corporation shareholders suspect that they are just excuses, and that Mr Murdoch has put his longtime desire to own the one of the world's great newspapers before any serious consideration of value for money.
Which is why some News Corporation shareholders suspect that they are just excuses, and that Mr Murdoch has put his long-standing desire to own one of the world's great newspapers before any serious consideration of value for money.
Moreover, a consideration of values allows for the differentiation of ecosystem services, benefits, and values that are often conflated in the literature (Chan et al., [2012]).
The major thesis of Cosans' Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog might be summed up as follows: "The humanistic approach to science, in contrast to those of materialism and social constructivism, allows for a consideration of values as part of conducting science from a human perspective" (pg. 142).
In this paper, we address this gap by demonstrating how a consideration of values can enhance every aspect of EBM, including: prioritizing which tests and treatments to investigate, selecting research designs and methods, assessing effectiveness and efficiency, supporting patient choice and taking account of the limited time and resources available to busy clinicians.
Any consideration of the possible value of melatonin has to take this into account and to weigh advantages and eventual disadvantages of effects exerted at the various levels of action.
This, in turn, carries much sway at the political level as if there is no budget constraint or consideration of value for money and coverage.
In addition to helping generate ideas for interventions, the model can be used for making decisions about alternative interventions through consideration of value criteria such as effectiveness, cost, freedom, equity, stigmatization, preferences, and both technologic and political feasibility.
The conventional selection of high-frequency coefficients only depend on their absolute value without taking any consideration of the neighboring coefficients.
