• Happiness, public policy and the notion of development 

      Rojas, Mariano (Behavioural Public Policy, 2020)
      The Happiness Movement is moving from research to action; this contribution discusses some public policy issues that emerge in this process. The paper also states that the Happiness Movement proposes a new notion of ...
    • Humane Education in Brazil: Organisation, Challenges and Opportunities 

      Bachinski, Rober; Tréz, Thales; Alves, Gutemberg G; de C M García, Rita; Oliveira, Simone T; da S Alonso, Luciano; Heck, Julio X; Dias, Claudia MC; Costa Neto, Joao M ; Rocha, Alexandro A; Ruiz, Valeska RR; Paixao, Rita L (ATLA : Alternatives to laboratory animals, 11/2015)
      Humane education and the debate on alternatives to harmful animal use for training is a relatively recent issue in Brazil. While animal use in secondary education has been illegal since the late 1970s, animal use in higher ...
    • Mujer cisgénero en situación de trabajo sexual: “nos ven como el foco infeccioso o como el virus andante” 

      Perdomo Sandoval, Luis Albeiro; Villamil Camacho, Diego Fernando (Index de Enfermeria, 2022)
      Objective: To explore the perceived barriers to sexual health self-care of a 57year-old cisgender woman in sex worker situation. Methods: A biographical account of a qualitative, constructivist and phenomenological nature ...
    • Open Educational Resources in Italy: Connecting the Macro, Meso and Micro Levels, Towards a National OER Ecosystem 

      Nascimbeni, Fabio (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2020)
      The chapter presents a snapshot of the state of the art of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Italy. It starts from the macro public policy level, noting that OER are part of the national school policy, to the advocacy ...
    • The Importance of Price, Income, and Affordability in the Demand for Cigarettes in Spain 

      Cadahia, Pedro; Golpe, Antonio A.; Martín-Álvarez, Juan-Manuel; Asensio, Eva (ADDICTA: The Turkish Journal on Addictions, 2022)
      In the literature it is commonly accepted that the best mechanism to control smoking is by increasing tobacco prices via taxes. However, there are some studies that indicate that the decrease in tobacco consumption when ...