The drug logistics process: an innovation experience

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present the latest innovations in the drug distribution processes of hospital companies, which are currently dealing with high inventory and storage costs and fragmented organizational responsibilities. Design/methodology/approach - The literature review and the in-depth analysis of a case study support the understanding of the unit dose drug distribution system and the subsequent definition of the practical implications for hospital companies. Findings - Starting from the insights offered by the case study, the analysis shows that the unit dose system allows hospitals to improve the patient care quality and reduce costs. Research limitations/implications - The limitations of the research are those related to the theoretical and exploratory nature of the study, but from a practical point of view, the work provides important indications to the management of healthcare companies, which have to innovate their drug distribution systems. Originality/value - This paper analyzes a new and highly topical issue and provides several insights for the competitive development of a fundamental sector

My Bird-Shaped Heart

How a childhood pet inspired an advocate\u27s career

Cultivating an Inclusive Mindset in your Jewish Community: Turning Good Intentions into Tangible Outcomes

This curriculum provides training and resources to Jewish day schools, synagogues, summer camps, and other organizations seeking to better embrace all members of their community and foster full and meaningful integration and participation. Focused primarily on youth with developmental and learning disabilities, though with definite implications for other populations, this curriculum provides a first-step for a community seeking to become more inclusive. Beginning with developing a commitment to inclusion and a common mindset among the staff that will be charged with implementing the programming, the curriculum strives to ensure collaboration from every stakeholder and community member. The second section is focused on children, providing a developmentally appropriate scope and sequence in order to scaffold children’s understanding of difference and disability. By focusing on the overall culture and mindset of the community towards difference and disability, the curriculum stands in contrast to traditional approaches to disability awareness and sensitivity trainings, seeking to shift understandings of what it truly means to embrace and include people with a variety of developmental variations

Does unfairness sound wrong? A cross-domain investigation of expectations in music and social decision-making

This study was interested in investigating the existence of a shared psychological mechanism for the processing of expectations across domains. The literature on music and language shows that violations of expectations produce similar neural responses and violating the expectation in one domain may influence the processing of stimuli in the other domain. Like music and language, our social world is governed by a system of inherent rules or norms, such as fairness. The study therefore aimed to draw a parallel to the social domain and investigate whether a manipulation of melodic expectation can influence the processing of higher-level expectations of fairness. Specifically, we aimed to investigate whether the presence of an unexpected melody enhances or reduces participants’ sensitivity to the violations of fairness and the behavioural reactions associated with these. We embedded a manipulation of melodic expectation within a social decision-making paradigm, whereby musically expected and unexpected stimuli will be simultaneously presented with fair and unfair divisions in a third-party altruistic punishment game. Both behavioural and EEG responses were recorded. Results from the pre-planned analyses show that participants are less likely to punish when the melodic stimuli are more unexpected and that violations of fairness norms elicit MFN-life effects. However, since no significant interactions between melodic expectancy and fairness of the division were found, results fail to provide evidence of a shared mechanism for the processing of expectations. Exploratory analyses show two additional effects: i) unfair divisions elicit an early attentional component (P2), likely associated with stimulus saliency, and ii) mid-value divisions elicit a late MFN-like component, likely reflecting stimulus ambiguity. Future studies could build on these results to further investigate the effect of the cross-domain influence of music on the processing of social stimuli on these early and late components

Visits to figurative art museums may lower blood pressure and stress

Background: The research aimed to assess, through physiological measurements such as blood pressure and heart rate, whether exposure to art museums and to different art styles (figurative vs. modern art) was able to enhance visitors’ well-being in terms of relaxing and stress reduction. Method: Participants (n = 77) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions, on the basis of the typology of the art style they were exposed to in the museum visit: (1) figurative art, (2) modern art and (3) museum office (as a control condition). Blood pressure and heart rate were measured before and after the visits. Results: Diastolic values of the participants were quite stable, as expected in people who do not suffer hypertension; we therefore considered only variations in systolic blood pressure. The majority of the participants exposed to figurative art significantly decreased systolic blood pressure compared to those exposed to modern art and museum office. No differences were found in the heart rate before and after the visit for the three groups. Conclusion: Findings suggest that museum visits can have health benefits, and figurative art may decrease systolic blood pressur

Presence-Centered Flourishing: A Proposal of Alternative Strategies to Promote Sustainable Living

Flourishing has been identified as a central concept in the new approaches based on the idea of positive psychology emerging at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. A culture based on the idea of harmony may never have existed among the large public in the history of human thought. An educational system of this type could be based on what we propose here as a «presence-centered» pedagogy (in contrast to the contemporary «information-centered» and «skill-centered» pedagogies). The alternative education process that we propose is also particularly fitted to be conducted amongst nature and outdoor spaces rather than within a classroom, based on the extensive literature on the positive effects of contact with nature for human health and wellbeing. From a philosophical perspective, a presence-centered pedagogy would result in the promotion of a new sense of agency: an identity developed by exercising our co-dependence with the rest of the ecosystemic processes and life-support systems, as opposed to an identity conceived as being separated from the external environment. We argue here that such a revolutionary change of human’s self-definition could result in higher likelihood of changing our lifestyles in the direction of sustainability and collective wellbeing

Potenziamento del settore turistico sardo attraverso la valorizzazione delle risorse locali mediante sistemi di mobile marketing e codici QR

The study focuses on the reciprocal relationship between spaces and the creation process of the territorial value, identifying the routes by which to increase the attractiveness of the places in order to augment their competitive profile. The esearch identifies the "authentic and high quality" tourism demanded by both national and international tourists and applies an analysis model which looks at the competitiveness of the destination based on the territories environmental and cultural resources. The elements enable the places to be defined and we can then consider the new ways of travelling and the corresponding segments of the market to which the Strategies of Tourism Destination Development should be directed.The research develops and applies an analysis model of the Customer Experience that examines tourists in the Internet age, through face-to-face interviews with 300 travellers, Content Analysis on almost 1,000 reviews and the popularity of search terms on Google Trends, providing a clear picture on the needs of tourists. The results of the survey allow us to define a tool for territorial development, called FoodExplorer, based on a digital information system to support the enhancement of the Sardinian tourism sector. The service is designed for the 2.0 tourist who appreciates the quality of the local products and, through a smartphone and a mobile marketing system mediated by QR code, is incentivized to discovery and learn about the territory

L’Istituto di Fisica di Cagliari tra fine Ottocento e primi decenni del Novecento

The project, started some time ago, aimed at conduct a more accurate and systematic investigation on the situation of Physics in Italy between the XIX and XX centuries, led to the discovery of many peripheral situations and to the role of different physicists not considered of primary importance. It is in this context that the Institute of physics of Cagliari and the figure of Giovanni Guglielmo are examined. Giovanni Guglielmo was a physicist who worked in Torino, Cagliari and Sassari, director of the Physics Laboratory of Cagliari for 37 years, Dean of the Faculty of Science and author of two handwritten notes of his lectures and over one hundred articles published in the most prestigious magazines of his time. Following a bitter controversy with a colleague, Professor of Applied Physics and director of the School of Electrotechniques of Torino, Guglielmo became isolated by the scientific community, giving an early end to his intense scientific career. In the thesis I examine also the role played in Physics Institute of Cagliari by Rita Brunetti, successor of Guglielmo and director of the Institute from 1928 to 1936