The world as we know it is changing. Economies world wide are undergoing a process of profound and continuing structural change, and the global village is becoming a reality driven by IT and communication technologies. With this in mind, many countries believe that they can benefit both economically and environmentally from better management of their spatial data assets by taking a perspective ...

Food-borne trematodes constitute a family of lung, liver and intestinal flukes that have parasitized mankind and domesticated animals since the distant past. In the modern global village, food-borne trematodes present a daunting challenge of infection with severe morbidity, despite being highly neglected as causes of disease. Urbanization is the population shift from rural to urban centers, as ...

Businesses have started to recognize diversity in the workplace as a business strategy that maximizes productivity, creativity and loyalty of employees while meeting the needs of their clients or customers. In today’s competitive scenario, an organization that puts people first regardless of their race, religion, gender, age, cross-borders or physical disability has an advantage over the other ...

There has been little research on the differential aspects of local/global dichotomy, yet there is every suggestion that such a distinction could be crucially important in terms of understanding the public’s perception and attitudes towards environmental problems as well as understanding their subsequent behaviour. This research sought to address three questions. First, are people only able to ...

Cage’s “ocean” may be an accurate metaphor for our time as our knowledge of the world and its histories expands exponentially. Fiber optics technologies have begun to revolutionize the way information is processed and disseminated. In the future, the entire world may be linked by a massive global telecommunications network that will allow us to transfer information at incredible speeds into eve...

Sustaining access to healthcare in a resourcepoor setting is a key challenge in achieving global health.1 While there exist huge differences in healthcare systems between developing and developed countries, shortages of doctors and other health professionals in rural and remote areas are universal issues.2 In rural areas, both patient-specific and extrinsic factors affect access to healthcare.3...

Although the world is called a global village in present age, yet the political system based on ethnicity is still persisting in certain forms. From the time immemorial, humans have either inherited identity or are bound to adopt one. Language and religion based ethnic identities are the dominant issues in the history and evolution of multi-ethnic countries of former Soviet States, Eastern Euro...

This report is meant to summarize the discussion themes introduced in the Fellows Day session of the 9th Biennial Congress of the International Academy of Intercultural Research held in Bergen, Norway June 28, 2015. The report also attempts to summarize some of the participant comments made during the session. Because it is a report and not an original research article, descriptions of concepts...