IP based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are being deployed as the solution of choice for site-to-site communication for a large number of enterprises. The provider networks that support these services are faced with unique challenges in terms of network planning. There is a lot of value in understanding the characteristics of VPNs from the perspective of planning, provisioning and maintenance ...

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities facing the agricultural biotechnology sector as it works to sustain innovations and further propagate its benefits into the new century. We survey the milestones of technological, legal, and economic precedence in this area and discuss institutional mechanisms for public and private partnership that can help agricultural biotechnology fulfill...

Holistic and multi-disciplinary responses should be prioritized given the depth and breadth through which corruption in the healthcare sector can cover. Here, taking the Peruvian context as an example, we will reflect on the issue of corruption in health systems, including corruption with roots within and outside the health sector, and ongoing efforts to combat it. Our ...

India presents a classic paradox. At one end patients receive the best of advanced medical care, and at the other millions lack access to basic services. The public health sector is neglected, and patients have to rely on a private sector that is commercialised and unregulated (box). Corruption is pervasive, resulting in exploitation of patients and irrational care.Yogesh Jain, a public health ...

Turkish economy experienced collapse of the banking sector. as that collapse, the reasons behind it have never been explored. Hence, this paper attempts to analyze the deeper aspects of the developments that failure of the financial sector. In this respect, the main claim of the study is that the 2001 Crisis has its tap policies led particularly to corruption in private banks as well as public ...

agricultural experts in the field of biotechnology in iran were surveyed in order to explore theirperception about factors affecting the partnership between public and private sector indeveloping agricultural biotechnology. the research population included agriculturalbiotechnology experts in the public and private sectors (n=66). a series of in-depth interviewswere conducted with some biotechn...

“For seven years I had to bear the burden of doing unnecessary investigations and procedures, including angioplasty, under pressure from the management of the hospital,” GautamMistry, a cardiologist in Kolkata, told The BMJ. What Mistry is describing is one of the best kept secrets of India’s private healthcare sector—consultants hired by private hospitals have to meet targets for generating re...

Public sector corruption has long-term and damaging effects that are deep and broad. Addressing corruption relies on understanding the drivers that precipitate acts of corruption and developing educational programs that target areas of vulnerability. This paper provides an innovative approach to explore the nature of corruption by drawing on the perceptions and ideas of a group of public servan...

The advent of new technology and the 4th industrial revolution has introduced facets corporate crimes regulatory challenges for enforcement anti-corruption laws. Acknowledging negative effects corruption on private sector, governance mechanisms may help reduce in sector by ensuring that corporations are managed best interest corporation shareholders or investors. This article aims to evaluate a...