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    Drugstore Cowboys

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    Drugstore Cowboys (1989, USA) by Gus van Sant Main Cast: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch Company: Avenue Pictures Productions Bob, Dianne, Rick, and Nadine are drug addicts, who rob pharmacies. Scene: drugs male adults hard drugs nontransgressive solitary After robbing a drugstore, Bob cannot wait, but “shoots up” already in the car. Clip: 26 (Addictions 4

    "Practical Knowledge" and Perceptions of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Drugsellers in Tanzanian Private Drugstores.

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    Studies indicate that antibiotics are sold against regulation and without prescription in private drugstores in rural Tanzania. The objective of the study was to explore and describe antibiotics sale and dispensing practices and link it to drugseller knowledge and perceptions of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. Exit customers of private drugstores in eight districts were interviewed about the drugstore encounter and drugs bought. Drugsellers filled in a questionnaire with closed- and open-ended questions about antibiotics and resistance. Data were analyzed using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. Of 350 interviewed exit customers, 24% had bought antibiotics. Thirty percent had seen a health worker before coming and almost all of these had a prescription. Antibiotics were dispensed mainly for cough, stomachache, genital complaints and diarrhea but not for malaria or headache. Dispensed drugs were assessed as relevant for the symptoms or disease presented in 83% of all cases and 51% for antibiotics specifically. Non-prescribed drugs were assessed as more relevant than the prescribed. The knowledge level of the drugseller was ranked as high or very high by 75% of the respondents. Seventy-five drugsellers from three districts participated. Seventy-nine percent stated that diseases caused by bacteria can be treated with antibiotics but 24% of these also said that antibiotics can be used for treating viral disease. Most (85%) said that STI can be treated with antibiotics while 1% said the same about headache, 4% general weakness and 3% 'all diseases'. Seventy-two percent had heard of antibiotic resistance. When describing what an antibiotic is, the respondents used six different kinds of keywords. Descriptions of what antibiotic resistance is and how it occurs were quite rational from a biomedical point of view with some exceptions. They gave rise to five categories and one theme: Perceiving antibiotic resistance based on practical experience. The drugsellers have considerable "practical knowledge" of antibiotics and a perception of antibiotic resistance based on practical experience. In the process of upgrading private drugstores and formalizing the sale of antibiotics from these outlets in resource-constrained settings, their "practical knowledge" as well as their perceptions must be taken into account in order to attain rational dispensing practices

    Menu Costs, Posted Prices, and Multiproduct Retailers

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    We use a unique store-level data set to directly measure menu costs and to study the price change process at a large U.S. drugstore chain. We compare and contrast the magnitude of these measures with similar measures from 4 large U.S. supermarket chains. We find that (1) the actual magnitude of menu costs as a share of revenues, (2) menu costs per price change, (3) the frequent use of promotional pricing, and (4) the use of weekly pricing rules, are similar across both retail formats. Given that the main common features of these two types of retail formats are that (i) they both use posted prices, and (ii) both are multiproduct retailers selling a large number of products, our findings suggest that the magnitude of the menu cost components we measure, and the price change practices we document, may be generalizable across retail formats with these two features.Menu Cost, Posted Prices, Multiproduct Retailer, Price Rigidity, Sticky Prices, Cost of Price Adjustment, Time Dependent Pricing

    Elaboration of Organizational Arrangements on the Improvement of Functioning of the System of Pharmaceutical Support of Sudan Population

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    In the article is considered the problem of support of Sudan population with available pharmaceutical production. The aim of research is an analysis of the price and assortment policy realized by the different pharmaceutical structures, determination of the level of their functions on guaranteeing the availability of medicaments, elaboration on the base of received results the arrangements on optimization of the pharmaceutical support system. It was determined that not all subjects of Sudan pharmaceutical market responsible for the pharmaceutical support cope with such problems at the proper level. Thus in the private drugstores, in the net drugstores of the Ministry of defense «Alia» and in drugstores of the health insurance system the prices of medicament exceed the recommended ones in more than 2 times, an assortment also does not corresponds to both internal and International requirements. The received results indicate the unreasonable use of budget means by the separate state structures, the negative tendencies in the system of guaranteeing the availability of pharmaceutical help. It was established that the biggest suppliers of the medicaments in Sudan, excluding the state Centre of medicament support CMS cannot ensure the system of health protection with medicaments of the proper quality, assortment and the price rate. There were elaborated the organizational-economic approaches to optimization of the structure of medical support of Sudan that include the change of the flows of medicaments distribution. There was offered the structure that unites all inflows in the aforesaid CMS and then distributes resources according to the needs of organizations and regions. Introduction of the offered structures will allow improve the system of purchase and distribution of medicaments, make it transparent. The result of change will be the rise of physical and economic availability of medicaments, widening of assortment, decrease of the price of preparations, significant economy of budget resources

    Interview with Katie McGready

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    An oral history interview with Mary Catherine Bussey Boice (Katie) McGready, the first medical librarian in the Texas Medical Center, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Mary Catherine Bussey Boice “Katie” McGready became the first medical librarian in the Texas Medical Center when Dr. Ernst W. Bertner asked to her to begin the medical library at what was then the fledgling MD Anderson Cancer Center. She was among the first employees at the Cancer Center, then located at “The Oaks,” the estate of the late Colonel James A. Baker at 2310 Baldwin Street in Houston. Born in rural Timpson, Texas, she was the only daughter with four brothers – two older and one younger. Her journey from running the soda fountain in her father’s drugstore to several jobs in the nascent Texas Medical Center reflects not only the early days there but also the lives of young women in Texas in the early 20th century. She married twice – first to Dr. Edward Henry “Ned” Boice, whom she met when she was learning medical librarian duties at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. They had five children – Betsy McPhaden of Seattle, Bill Boice of Atlanta, Peggy Boice of Houston, Cathy Bacon of Houston and Jim Boice of Austin. Later, as a widow, she married Frances Cornelius “Mac” McGready, which whom she lived many happy years before his death in 2009

    A Survey of Requirements Engineering Methods for Pervasive Services

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    Designing and deploying ubiquitous computing systems, such as those delivering large-scale mobile services, still requires large-scale investments in both development effort as well as infrastructure costs. Therefore, in order to develop the right system, the design process merits a thorough investigation of the wishes of the foreseen user base. Such investigations are studied in the area of requirements engineering (RE). In this report, we describe and compare three requirements engineering methods that belong to one specific form of RE, namely Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering. By mapping these methods to a common framework, we assess their applicability in the field of ubiquitous computing systems

    A Modern Drugstore

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    Who is the person who has not walked into a drugstore without being promptly and completely confused? Who is the person who has not bent an ear to the sage advice of a bespectled clerk, Pardon me sir, but I would suggest that you take this other aisle to the prescription counter, we have had no word from five customers who went the other way two weeks ago. We are still searching for them

    Adoption of standard ERP solution in health care sector: is SAP ERP all-in-one capable to meet specific requirements?

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    Objective of this experience report is to address specific issues regarding standard SAP ERP implementation in a medical institution. Target Company is a state owned health care institution from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Report will treat selected issues which could trouble standard SAP ERP implementation trough predefined ERP implementation methodology for SAP ERP. This report presents observations/ remarks based on experience of authors in particular SAP ERP implementation project in health care institution. Author’s goal is to provide useful insight into “real life” standard ERP implementation and problems that arise. Also, it should provide useful information for all stakeholders involved in the process of ERP implementation in public health care sector
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