Neoliberalizing Subjects through Global <scp>ELT</scp> Programs

Global optimization of disjunctive programs

We propose a new branch-and-bound framework for global optimization of disjunctive programs with general logical expressions. We do not assume the logical expressions to be in any normal form, and, under slightly stronger assumptions, we allow the use of negations and implications. In contrast to the widely used reformulation as a mixedinteger program, we compute the lower bounds and evaluate t...

The end of social work: neoliberalizing social policy implementation

Improving pharmacy practice through public health programs: experience from Global HIV/AIDS initiative Nigeria project

BACKGROUND The use of medicines is an essential component of many public health programs (PHPs). Medicines are important not only for their capacity to treat and prevent diseases. The public confidence in healthcare system is inevitably linked to their confidence in the availability of safe and effective medicines and the measures for ensuring their rational use. However, pharmacy services comp...

Global Health Diplomacy, National Integration, and Regional Development through the Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and Samoa

The South Pacific countries of Vanuatu, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea have ascended rapidly up the development spectrum in recent years, refining an independent and post-colonial economic and political identity that enhances their recognition on the world stage. All three countries have overcome economic, political and public health challenges in order to stake their claim to sovereignty. In this...

Understanding Pharo’s global state to move programs through time and space

Code mobility is a mechanism that allows the migration of running programs between different environments. Such migration includes amongst others the migration of application data and resources. Application’s data is is usually composed by elements of different nature: from printers and files, to framework and domain objects. This application data will be transported along with the code of its ...