Background Urban renewal has become an important issue in Hong Kong, which is experiencing considerable population growth pressures and urban decay in various districts. Ho et al. [1] noted that urban renewal often creates not only environmental problems such as demolition waste, but also social problems such as destruction of existing social networks and the fabric of long-established communit...

BACKGROUND Epidemiology's role as the 'diagnostic' arm of public health has submitted epidemiological reasoning and practice to the crossfire of oppositional social values and demands. In Latin America, the visible signs of extreme social and political authoritarianism and inequity, as well as the growing unfairness of the World economy, inspired a culture of social critique and a corresponding...

IS offshoring research regarding knowledge transfer processes, roles involved, as well as influencing factors is characterized by its diverse and heterogeneous nature. Covering the last fifteen years of IS offshoring research, this paper provides a consolidated view of the field of study. It presents a generic knowledge transfer process consisting of four stages and five milestones. These stage...

BACKGROUND Biofilm formation is a primary cause of considerable bacterial destruction. OBJECTIVES In an effort to combat these industrial and medical bacterial biofilm problems, our study aims to determine the antimicrobial effect of Euphorbia hebecarpa. MATERIALS AND METHODS The inhibition efficiency of alcoholic extracts on the planktonic form of six pathogenic bacteria was evaluated usin...

In 2008, approximately 11 million maritime containers passed through U.S. seaports (U.S. Department of Homeland Security [DHS], 2010). These containers carried 90 percent of international commerce moving in and out of the United States, representing $500 billion in U.S. trade from 178,000 foreign businesses (Montaigne, 2004). Maritime trade forms the economic circulatory system of our national ...

This article examines the significance of some recent architecture and urban demolitions in Berlin. As an example present-day iconoclasm heart Europe, relevance these cases lies not only destruction politically-charged artefacts, but also their replacement with replicas eighteenth-century architecture, thus materializing a Prussian revival nostalgia for country’s royal past. In 2006, Berlin ini...

This paper seeks to examine the terrific effects of economic exploitation and domination plebeian Hindu communities by majority aristocratic Muslim in Bangladesh Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja. The genesis novel lies demolition Babri Masjid India extremists on December 1, 1992, its thereafter. destruction temples, burning down shops houses, rape proletariat women clearly signify capitalists. research t...

Sign-out somewhere in the United States in an emergency department (ED) today: ‘‘.so that’s the last of the acute rack. And, yeah, there are 17 boarders waiting for beds, the usual. ’’ In this issue of Annals, Auf der Heide thoroughly debunks numerous myths of disaster response and management. As many of us know firsthand, in a major disaster, including a terrorist attack, many patients may sho...

the destruction of profit and its consequent liability has a crucial role in regulating legal and social relations. in contracts, like hire, sale and sharecropping and also in extra contractual liability such as destroying, usurpation and receiving, lawyers and jurists have partially argued about the subject and have tried to offer a legal and jurisprudent interpretation, in order to compensate...