Private Security Companies: Emerging Protectors of China’s Overseas Interests

Contemporary Security and Private Security Companies: Privatization of Security and Consequences

With the end of the Cold War and the corresponding shift in military doctrine, the structure and deployment of national armed forces, as well as the core change in comprehension of (inter-)/national security and (inter-)/national security threats, the role of private security providers gained a new momentum. The increased involvement of private military security companies in the provision of pr...

Emerging IVD Companies

Can Private Interests Buy Public Science ? *

Can private interest groups influence the decisions of independent experts to achieve their desired outcomes? This study analyzes a common non-market strategy — lobbying powerful politicians — through which interest groups seek to influence the allocation of public funds in the context of peerreviewed funding for research on rare diseases by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We find evid...

Conflicting interests in private hospital care.

This article looks at key changes impacting on private hospital care: the increasing corporate ownership of private hospitals; the Commonwealth Government's support for private health; the significant increase in health fund membership; and the contracting arrangements between health funds and private hospitals. The changes highlight the often conflicting interests of hospitals, doctors, Govern...

Small Tailored Expert Systems for Private Companies

Interest is growing in the application of Knowledge Based Expert Systems ( KBES ) to assist in solving problems in the construction discipline. A number of major research and / or development projects are under way in various US institutions, however, as of the summer of1985, the number was small considering the potential of this new technology .'. A few of the larger design and construction co...