The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets

This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history, rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets addresses contexts that are different from those of developed markets. These regions had long eras of foreign domination, had extensive state intervention, faced institutional inefficiencies, and experienced extended turbulence. This article suggests that this context drove different business responses than are found in the developed world. Entrepreneurs counted more than managerial hierarchies; immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship; illegal and informal forms of business were common; diversified business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of large-scale business; corporate strategies to deal with turbulence were essential; and radical corporate social-responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms

Impact and utility of follicular lymphoma GELF criteria in routine care: an Australasian Lymphoma Alliance study

Follicular Lymphoma (FL) treatment initiation is largely determined by tumor burden and symptoms. In the pre-rituximab era, the Group d’Etude des Lymphomes Folliculaires (GELF) developed widely adopted criteria to identify high tumor burden FL patients to harmonize clinical trial populations. The utilization of GELF criteria (GELFc) in routine therapeutic decision-making is poorly described. This multicenter retrospective study evaluated patterns of GELFc at presentation and GELFc utilization in therapeutic decision-making in newly diagnosed, advanced stage rituximab-era FL. Associations between GELFc, treatment given, and patient survival were analyzed in 300 eligible cases identified between 2002-2019. 163 (54%) had ≥1 GELFc at diagnosis. The presence or cumulative number of GELFc did not predict PFS in patients undergoing watch-and-wait (WW) or those receiving systemic treatment. Of interest, in patients with ≥1 GELFc, 16/163 (10%) underwent initial watch-and-wait (comprising 22% of the watchand- wait cohort). In those receiving systemic therapy +/- radiotherapy, 74/215 (34%) met no GELFc. Our data suggest clinicians are using adjunctive measures to make decisions regarding treatment initiation in a significant proportion of patients. By restricting FL clinical trial eligibility only to those meeting GELFc, reported outcomes may not be applicable to a significant proportion of patients treated in routine care settings

History in a Changing World

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Anuario nº8 – América colonial, población y economía

• Presentación • Geoffrey Barraclough: Europa, Rusia y Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX. Especulaciones y escritos políticos. • Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz y Susana Torrado: Perfil y proyecciones de la demografía histórica en la Argentina. • Elda R. González y Rolando Mellafe: la función de la familia en la historia social de Hispanoamérica colonial. • David Noble Cook: La población indígena en el Perú colonial. • Antonia Antonione: el padrón de Montevideo de 1743. • Beatriz Rasini: Estructura democráfica de Jujuy. Siglo XVIII • José Luis Moreno: La estructura social y demográfica de la ciudad de Buenos Aires en el año 1778. • María del Pilar Chao: La población de Potosí en 1779. • Ofelia Casañas: La población de Santa María (Catamarca) entre los censos nacionales de 1869 y 1895. • SOCIEDAD Y ECONOMÍA • Álvaro Jara: economía minera e Historia hispanoamericana. • Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz: LA saca de mulas de Salta al Perú, 1778-1808. • Graciela I. de Roncoroni: un aspecto del comercio salteño (1778-1811). • María del Carmen Carlé: Tensiones y revueltas urbanas en León y Castilla. Siglos XIII – XIV. • CRÓNICA • Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz: Los Congresos de Munich y Viena. • Dos nuevas revistas • Vida del institutoFil: Barraclough, Geoffrey. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Ciencias de la Educación. Universidad del Litoral. Rosario, Argentin

The Times Concise Atlas of World History

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Prevention of access-related infection in dialysis

Access-related infections (ARIs), such as exit-site infections, tunnel infections, bacteremia, fungemia and peritonitis, are the Achilles' heel of dialysis, and contribute significantly to morbidity, mortality and excess healthcare costs in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patient populations. Despite international guidelines recommending the avoidance of catheters for hemodialysis access, hospital admissions for vascular ARIs have doubled in the last decade. Moreover, repeated use of antibiotics to treat ARIs has been associated with the selection of multiresistant organisms, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci. ARIs result from direct inoculation of skin organisms during access cannulation/connection, migration of skin organisms along dialysis catheters into the bloodstream or peritoneal cavity, or contamination and colonization of catheter lumens with subsequent biofilm formation. This paper will review the epidemiology, pathogenesis and prevention of ARIs. It will focus specifically on randomized, controlled trial evidence in relation to the safety and efficacy of aseptic techniques, nasal eradication of S. aureus, oral antimicrobial prophylaxis, topical antimicrobial prophylaxis (including disinfectants, antibiotics and antibacterial honey), antimicrobial catheter lock solutions (including gentamicin, citrate and ethanol), antimicrobial-impregnated catheters, catheter design (straight vs coiled, single vs double cuff), peritoneal dialysis catheter connectology, catheter insertion technique, germicidal devices, vaccines and preinsertion antibiotic prophylaxis