during the past years, special emphasis was put on medical preparedness in the event of radiological or nuclear emergencies. novin medical radiation institute (nmri) encouraged and supported the national authorities to enhance their cooperation in improving medical response to radiation accident. nmri in cooperation with international atomic energy agency (iaea) and atomic energy organization o...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Commission on Industrial Productivity, in their report Made in America, found that six recurring weaknesses were hampering American manufacturing industries. The two weaknesses most relevant to product development were 1) technological weakness in development and production, and 2) failures in cooperation. The remedies to these weaknesses are cons...

Preface Democratic development is a priority in Swedish international development cooperation, and the Government's new policy on Democratic development and Human Rights highlights the role of the political parties in this process. Since 1995, the Government has funded collaboration between Swedish party affiliated organisations (PAOs) and their partner organisations in developing countries, th...

This paper tries to investigate some of the characteristics of the UniversityIndustry RJVs established in Europe in the context of the European Framework Programmes. UI-RJVs are examined against the non UI-RJVs on their duration, size, technology areas, frequency of participation and country distribution. In addition the objectives, benefits and problems from cooperation with Universities, are ...

In the Prisoner's Dilemma, two players decide, without communicating, whether to cooperate or defect. The players engage in repeated rounds of the Prisoner's Dilemma in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD), a model of competition and cooperation in social interactions. A genetic algorithm is a search procedure inspired by the mechanisms of biological evolution. In it, a population of solutions...

Cooperation among children can appear haphazard, a finding often attributed to deficient social skills and moral reasoning. Here we took a game theoretical approach to understand development of cooperation, using the prisoner’s dilemma to test an alternative source of age-differences in cooperative behavior—how children and adults represent the numerical magnitudes of payoffs for cooperating ve...

Work on computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) has provided tools that let several users work concurrently on objects, e.g. collaborative editors. A general SDE will not include such tools, but it should allow and support use of CSCW tools on objects handled by the SDE. More important is support for situations where users knowingly work on common objects in isolation for a period before the...

We analyzed the effects of R&D cooperation with users and the intensity/continuity of such cooperation on firms’ innovation output—whether radical or incremental. We also examined the moderating effect of firm size on these relationships. Results show that cooperation with users favours the development of both radical and incremental product innovations. In addition, we found that the higher th...

United Nations (2012) Framework of operational guidelines on United Nations support to southsouth and triangular cooperation. High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation, 12 April. United Nations (2014a) The road to dignity by 2030; ending poverty, transforming all lives and protecting the planet, synthesis report of the Secretary-General on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. A/6...