Transnational crime, sometimes called international crime or multinational systemic crime, is more than an extension of domestic crime. In the context of globalization, transnational organized crime groups respond to market incentives and operate with cooperative relationships, which makes the multinational criminal systems become more efficient and powerful. As a result, no single country has ...

Expansion of the private, NGO, and international sectors has made administrative reform very urgent in Bangladesh. The rigidity of the government pay scale in presence of private and international pay scales has led to a bad equilibrium in the government service factor market. This bad equilibrium has led to decline in effort and quality of entrants. It has led to an unhealthy gap in official a...

Kenneth Jacobson serves as Chief of the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and the Molecular Recognition Section at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Dr. Jacobson is a medicinal chemist with interests in the structure and pharmacology of G-proteincoupled receptors, in particular receptors for adenosine...

An examination of rural policy requires an understanding of the unique conditions in rural places that justify separate national policies. The great differences among rural people and places in America make it hard to fashion national policies that fit all of these places. The analytical problem also is complicated by this diversity as well as the absence of a common statistical definition of r...

Seung Hyuck Shin (email: [email protected]) is a Ph.D student in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. He received his B.S, degrees in Information and Control Engineering from Kwangwoon University in 2004. And he received his M.S. degree in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Seoul National University in 2006. His ...

Mr. Songlai Han is a joint-training doctorate candidate at both the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He received the B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China in 2003, and received the M.S. degree in Control Science and Technology from the National University of De...

The first two objects of the association are: (1) 'To promote closer ties among the National Medical Organizations and among the doctors of the world by personal contact and all other means available. (2) To maintain the honour and protect the interests of the medical profession.' The W.M.A. represents some 700,000 medical men from some 43 national organizations (Editorial 1952). It is not a go...

Abbreviated title: Dry eye-induced sensitization of cool cells 15 Number of pages: 29 16 Number of figures: 6 17 Number of words: Abstract, 248; Introduction, 499; Discussion, 1368 18 19 Acknowledgements: Funding for these studies was provided by the National Eye 20 Institute R01EY021230 to I.D.M and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences 21 P20GM103643. The authors declare no compe...