Experts and business pundits forecast drastic changes of e-commerce climate in Saudi Arabia when this country became an official member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2005. In fact over a last decade, many Saudi Arabian enterprises have adopted e-commerce, however almost at the entry level. In this research, a research model of e-commerce adoption and institutionalization is developed...

INTRODUCTION The institutionalization of community mobilization is not well understood in literature. This paper aims to understand the role of the community-to-community learning strategy in the institutionalization of community mobilization among sex workers communities across eight districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data collected during baseline (March, 2010) and en...

Five hundred and fifty-three patients were referred to a Canadian dementia clinic for standardized evaluation. The majority (83.5%) had a dementia with Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounting for 89% of dementias. Patients with probable AD who were followed for five years had variable rates of progression, increased mortality (37.1%, 2.5 times the expected rate) and a high rate of institutionalizat...

Human Progress is often understood to be a rather natural and obvious truth of human existence. That this is not necessarily so, is indicative of the pervasive social, psychological, and educational inculcation that sustains its ubiquitous acceptance. Moreover, the uncritical and ill-informed understanding of Progress as an unquestioned expression of human beneficence has serious consequences f...