There are many other examples of such initiatives.
Examples of such initiatives include the initiative undertaken by SYNTENS [29], a Dutch non-profit organization, which developed a set of tools and methods (called ToekomstWijzer) that aimed to encourage and help SMEs 'look' into the future and make business strategies and new policy choices based on external trends and signals.
Examples of such initiatives include Myways, a terminated pilot project of DHL that was launched in Sweden [53], bringr, an experiment by the Belgian postal operation bpost [54] and efforts of retailer Walmart in the USA, at first with in-store customers that served as crowd, later on in cooperation with CL start-ups Lyft, Deliv and UberRUSH [55].
Examples of such initiatives may include web-based tools, workplace-based health programs, or flexible and weekend schedules of health promotion services to meet the needs of the high number of employed members of this community.
Examples of such initiatives include the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), funding through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS drug assistance program, and the CDC's recommendations for HIV opt-out testing.
The Climate Ambassadors provided good examples of such initiatives: Ana-Lucia, 17, from Bolivia runs an environmental radio program targeted at children; Wendolyn, 17, from Mexico, participates in a mangrove restoration initiative in a highly-polluted zone of the country; and Walter, 12, from Belize, plants trees.
As an example of such initiatives to close the science-policy gap and in an effort to promote the integration of science into the next DRR framework, Tohoku University established in 2012 the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) to promote action-oriented research integrating and disseminating scientific discoveries.
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative provides an excellent model of such initiatives.
One example of such initiative effort is the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) call to develop 10 new systemic antibacterial drugs by 2020 [ 2] by targeting drug development against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
Most EHR evaluations draw upon a broadly positivist ontology and pursue causality in term of an intervention's impact and by making objective judgments concerning the outcomes and hence degree of success or failure of such initiatives (see for example the studies of EHR summarized in references 8 and 11) [ 8, 11].
