Phenomenological Research Awards

  🧪📊 Evaluating Generic Drugs: Unpacking the Dimensions and Criteria of Value Assessment Frameworks In today’s healthcare landscape, generic drugs play a critical role in increasing access to essential medicines, particularly in emerging nations . 🌍 With their proven therapeutic benefits and cost-effectiveness, these drugs have become a cornerstone of global health systems. However, the evaluation of their value continues to pose challenges. Are lower prices truly synonymous with comparable clinical outcomes? 🤔 Despite widespread use, there remains skepticism around the product quality , bioequivalence , and real-world effectiveness of generics compared to original branded drugs. These concerns demand a robust, standardized approach to assess the value of generics — not just based on price, but through a multidimensional lens. That’s where our scoping review and thematic analysis steps in. 🔍📘 🎯 Objective: Filling the Assessment Gap The central goal of our study was to ...

  🔧🪺 Are We Too Obsessed with Animal Tool Use? Rethinking Research Bias in Animal Cognition 🧠📚 In the world of animal behavior research, there's a growing conversation around how anthropocentric bias —our tendency to view the world through a human-centered lens—may be shaping what we study and how we interpret animal actions. A recent study has taken a closer look at how two behaviors— tool use and nest building —are treated very differently in scientific literature, and the results are eye-opening. 👀 🧪 Tool Use vs. Nest Building: A Tale of Two Behaviors When you think of an intelligent animal, what comes to mind? Probably a chimpanzee using a stick to fish for termites or a crow crafting a hook to reach food. These impressive displays of tool use have long fascinated both scientists and the public. 🐒🦅 But here’s the catch: nest building —another form of behavior involving precise manipulation, planning, and sometimes even architectural skill—hasn’t received nearly the s...