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Recent studies reveal that the Internet use has grown tremendously in the past few years, most rapidly in non-English-speaking regions. However, this scenario creates a demand for innovative information retrieval services to better support a world wide community. This paper presents the MedLink linking service, which automatically identifies semantic relationships among multilingual clinical ca...

Web services and related technologies are a ubiquitous topic within the IT community. Due to their flexible system composition characteristics these technologies can be considered a promising building block for the dynamic networking of people and organizations in our increasingly globalized and quickly changing economies. With the growing number of Web services we are in need of elaborate mech...

Worldwide promotion of infant formula and other commercial baby foods is leading to increased use of these products, raising concerns about their impact on the health of infants. These products are made and marketed through a global system that extends beyond the control of separate nations. As the industry is increasingly globalized, there is a growing need for guidance, monitoring, and regula...

This position paper for the Princeton/Rockefeller conference “Migrant Youth and Children of Migrants in a Globalized World” offers a tentative framework for organizing research directions on the subject of children and migration. This is informed by several themes that are a part of the position paper by Tienda, Taylor, and Maughan (2007), as well as of the survey papers by Harttgen and Klasen ...

In his comprehensive overview of moral philosophy, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Adam Smith made a key contribution through the concept of the “impartial spectator”—an imagined third party who allows an individual to objectively judge the ethical status of his or her actions. Also called the “man within the breast,” the impartial spectator is a tool through which individuals divide the...

One of the fundamental difficulties in engineering design is the multiplicity of local solutions. This has triggered great efforts to develop global search algorithms. Globality, however, often has a prohibitively high numerical cost for real problems. A fixed cost local search, which sequentially becomes global is developed. Globalization is achieved by probabilistic restart. A spacial probabi...

A sociological theory that is appropriate to the processes of globalization has as its testing ground the ability to capture the morphostasis/morphogenesis of relations, which includes the morphostasis/morphogenesis of structures, culture and agency. This is the task that defines what a relational sociology has to be. The morphogenesis of relations is not the result of the morphogenesis of its ...