BACKGROUND: The study is of practical importance for policy makers and family planning (FP) program managers as the profile FP method-mix with a shift from mechanical method intrauterine devices (IUD) to hormonal methods such oral contraceptives (OCs) injectables predicts critical situation maternal child health reflects shortcomings in service delivery program. AIM: purpose current was identif...

This paper deals with a real-world Gigabit Ethernet over WDM migration at a corporate headquarter of a well known international organisation. A prominent communications provider had need to upgrade its enterprise network in order to ensure reliable infrastructure support to the emerging e-business applications.

This document presents data analyses that are not for publication, but complement the empirical estimations from the paper titled “The Effect of Communication Costs on Trade in Headquarter Services”. All the references to regression equations, estimation coefficients or particular model specifications that are made in this document without being directly reported here correspond to content from...

This paper uses a micro data set on auxiliary establishments from 1977 to 1997 in order to investigate the determinants of headquarter agglomerations and the underlying economic base of many larger metro areas. The significance of headquarters in large urban settings is their ability to facilitate the spatial separation of their white collar activities from remote production plants. The results...

When epidemic cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, the medical community there had virtually no experience with the disease and needed rapid training as the epidemic spread throughout the country. We developed a set of training materials specific to Haiti and launched a cascading training effort. Through a training-of-trainers course in November 14-15, 2010, and department-level training ...

Abstract In this study, we argue that European countries’ extensive relationships with former colonies represent a location factor attracts foreign headquarter investments. The strategic role of headquarters as coordinators, opportunity detectors, and global bridgeheads makes the choice activities sensitive to historical-based institutional connections. Drawing on sample 2230 investments in Eur...