Nicaragua is preparing the construction of an interoceanic canal that will be the longest 16 and largest canal on earth. An environmental and social impact assessment has been published in 17 2014 supporting a general viability of the canal. Nonetheless, several scientist and societal actors 18 raised serious concerns regarding the social, economic and ecological sustainability. Despite an 19 o...

Technology Assessment in Social Context (TASC) is a research project funded by the Australian Research Council from 2006 to 2008. Its primary aim is to develop a framework for technology assessment (TA) for Australia. Drawing on international TA practice and ‘Social Impact Assessment’, TASC also presents a new TA approach for the international TA community. The novelty of TASC is its emphasis o...

We have reviewed the way that Impact Assessment is being applied to European Commission policies, and evaluated the Commission's recently published Impact Assessment Guidelines. Based on an analysis of recent meta-studies, the Commission's Guidelines for Impact Assessment and some case studies, we set out some core principles to guide future Impact Assessments, including transparency, quality c...

background: migraine is one of the most common headaches that affect 11% or more adult population. recently, researchers have designed two questionnaires, namely headache impact test (hit) and migraine disability assessment (midas), with the aim of improving migraine care. these two tests provide a standard measurement about migraine's effects on people's life style that divide patients into 4 ...

This study aims to understand how characteristics of a labor flow network affect firm productivity using an inter-firm hiring network constructed from individual job histories. We separate IT-labor from non-IT labor and use the network measures constructed from the two types of labor flow to evaluate how they affect firm performance. We find that hiring IT workers from a diverse set of firms ca...

Sustainability brings together three dimensions: environment, economy and society, as according to the Agenda 21, a comprehensive plan of action be taken globally, nationally, locally by organizations United Nations System, governments, major groups in every area which humans impact environment. To define whether an intervention or process is ‘sustainable’, these spheres must co-exist equally c...