PQ Forum #22. Validation Plan Document Structure

A carefully written Validation Plan including thoughtful discussion in its respective sections ensures a logical and complete validation project. The following discussion proposes a simple and straightforward Validation Plan document structure that is applicable to all validation/qualification at a pharma manufacturing site.

Positioning of tourist destinations in the digital era: a review of online customer feedback

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify features of online content that create engagement amongst consumers by exploring online customer feedback from the world’s leading tourist website (s). This paper also attempts to unveil the factors based on customer reviews, which will be vital for the tourism industry professionals to promote and position India’s tourist destinations. Design/methodology/approach This paper involves an analysis of customer feedback from TripAdvisor.com. The approach to research is exploratory and attempts to uncover critical factors arising out of rising visitor experience in the digital media sphere. Findings Key factors are nuanced around service quality of the destination image. Identified factors that need the attention of the policymakers, site management and service professionals at large are fairness of price, distractions/irritants and varied expectations of the international and national tourists. Practical implications The findings will have substantial implications for the policymakers, the site management and service professionals. Research outcomes are based on the analysis of real customer reviews hence makes this study vital for decision-makers as well as for academic researchers working in this area. Originality/value This study used the real tourist’s data from TripAdvisor.com. The customer’s postings on the website are those of verified visitors. This paper should help in developing a thoughtful discussion around positioning India as a preferred destination in the online arena aiming at future tourists.

Using Data to Achieve Justice Reform

Americans have grown uneasy with our ranking as the world’s leader in incarceration, which has made way for thoughtful discussion and debate around how to reform our sentencing and corrections systems. To adequately measure progress toward ending mass imprisonment, federal and state prison data must become more readily available and transparent. The Sentencing Project embarked on the work of documenting the number of people serving life sentences after observing a large gap in adequate information or concern about expansion of long prison sentences. We now know that long-term imprisonment is a driver of mass incarceration and that one in seven prisoners is serving life. Though all states can provide aggregate figures on populations of prisoners upon request, this information is insufficient to fully understand the life-sentenced population, including shifting dynamics within the population. Going forward, simple access to de-identified administrative prison records can serve as a bridge between policy reform ideas and their implementation.

Comments on Fred Kroon and Jonathan McKeown-Green’s “Ontology: What’s the (Real) Question?”

Kroon and McKeown-Green’s (K/M) chapter is a careful and thoughtful discussion of my views on a number of issues concerning the nature of ontology. These include: the connection between what I say on the topic in three different, though related, papers—“What is Metaphysics?” (WM), “The Question of Ontology” (QO), and “The Question of Realism” (QR); my objection that standard quantificational accounts are unable to do justice to ...

Errata ao artigo “Parto por Cesariana em Grávida com COVID-19: O Primeiro Caso Descrito em Portugal”, publicado em Acta Med Port 2020 Jun;33(6):429-431

Article published with errors:https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/13883On page 430, section “Discussion”, line 5, where it reads: (...) given the conflicting data about pre and postnatal transmission,6,7 a multi-disciplinary team consensus comprising obstetricians, neonatologists and infectious diseases specialists at our institution decided on mother-neonate separation immediately after birth until both were tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.4It should read: (...) given the conflicting data about pre and postnatal transmission,6,7 after thoughtful discussion between a multidisciplinary team and the mother, and respecting her expressed will, a shared decision was made of mother infant separation immediately after birth until both were tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.4 Artigo publicado com erros:https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/13883Na página 430, secção “Discussão”, linha 6, onde se lê: (...) given the conflicting data about pre and postnatal transmission,6,7 a multi-disciplinary team consensus comprising obstetricians, neonatologists and infectious diseases specialists at our institution decided on mother-neonate separation immediately after birth until both were tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.4Deverá ler-se: (...) given the conflicting data about pre and postnatal transmission,6,7 after thoughtful discussion between a multidisciplinary team and the mother, and respecting her expressed will, a shared decision was made of mother infant separation immediately after birth until both were tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.4

Extending Youth Voices in a Participatory Thematic Analysis Approach

Recent decades have seen a more thoughtful discussion regarding the inclusion of children and youth in research and decision making, challenging how we conduct child and youth-focused studies. Included is a focus on Youth Participatory Action Research approaches and how they facilitate engagement of child and youth voice. Similarly, there is a smaller yet equally important questioning of how we understand “voice,” drawing attention to the conceptualization of “voice,” and the need to account for its social positioning and construction. Despite these various advances, current discussions focus predominantly on research design and data gathering, with an emerging focus on the dissemination of findings. Discussions focused specifically on data analysis remain limited. This omission seems important, given the bridge analysis forms between data gathering and dissemination of findings, and how this impacts youth engagement in the research process overall. By not considering more thoughtfully the ways in which children do or do not engage in the analysis of their data, how are we impacting the positioning of their “voice” in the findings? Similarly, how does our analysis unintentionally strengthen or undermine the platform from which youth share their findings, especially with those in positions of power? In response to these questions, we use this article to consider data analysis in relation to voice and subsequent knowledge production. We also share our approach to participatory thematic analysis in the Spaces & Places research project, a participatory action research program with Indigenous youth in three communities of Atlantic Canada. Through the discussion and exemplar, we hope to contribute to how researchers consider “voice,” ours and those of child and youth collaborators, and the ways in which we can account for both in the analysis process, and enhance the voices of children and youth as knowledge brokers in the dissemination that follows.

The Law of Armed Conflict Implications of Covered or Concealed Cyber Operations

This chapter addresses the complex Law of War issues of distinction as applied to cyber operations. Cyberspace is now widely recognized as an operational domain of conflict and states are adopting cyber capabilities and operational constructs as means and methods of warfare at an increasing rate. Owing to the nature of this new and unique domain, operations security is at a premium. The use of cover and concealment and, at some level, the deception inherent thereto directly implicates in novel ways the traditional LOAC rules designed to ensure respect for the principle of honor in the conduct of hostilities and to protect civilians and civilian objects from the dangers of war. These rules must be interpreted in light of the unique aspects of cyberspace and the distinctive challenges it poses. A better understanding of how the cardinal principle of distinction and the LOAC rules meant to implement it awaits elucidation through state practice and opinion. In the meantime, thoughtful discussion and detailed analysis of the issues of perfidy, ruses, and the passive precautions rule are necessary to ensure that the spirit and intent of the LOAC are properly balanced against military necessity.

Visions of the Possible: Engaging with Librarians in SoTL

This paper encourages thoughtful discussion on cross-disciplinary partnerships between scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) researchers, practioners, and librarians. Through personal reflection, examples from the literature and a belief in meaningful collaboration, the authors describe various models of engagement that provides multiple points of entry for librarians to work others on common SoTL interests.