The research enterprise increasingly involves multidisciplinary collaboration, sometimes over geographic distance. Technological advances have made these collaborations possible, and the history of past innovations suggests these collaborations are desirable. Yet multidisciplinary projects can carry high coordination costs. This study investigated how collaborations address disciplinary differe...

Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin This study develops and estimates a model of the naturalization process in the US. The model is based on both the characteristics of immigrants and features of their countries of origin. The empirical analysis is based on the 2000 US Census. Both the characteristics of immigrants and the origin-countr...

in responses to norheim’s editorial, this commentary offers reflections from thailand, how the five unacceptable trade-offs were applied to the universal health coverage (uhc) reforms between 1975 and 2002 when the whole 64 million people were covered by one of the three public health insurance systems. this commentary aims to generate global discussions on how best uhc can be gradually achieve...

There is significant interest in using mobile sensors to protect geographical regions against hazards, in which the sensing resources are distributed according to the varying importance of the sub-regions, such as their numbers of residents exposed to the hazards. The quality of monitoring (QoM) resulting from such proportional-share allocation of the coverage time, in terms of the amount of in...

In wireless sensor network (WSN) applications with multiple gateways, it is key to route location dependent subscriptions efficiently at two levels in the system. At the gateway level, data sinks must not waste the energy of the WSN by injecting subscriptions that are not relevant for the nodes in their coverage area and at WSN level, energy-efficient delivery of subscriptions to target areas i...

There is significant interest in using mobile sensors to protect geographical regions against hazards, in which the sensing resources are distributed according to the varying importance of the sub-regions, such as their numbers of residents exposed to the hazards. The quality of monitoring (QoM) resulting from such proportional-share allocation of the coverage time, in terms of the amount of in...

The results of the retrospective analysis of data on vaccination coverage in the preschool-aged and school-aged Roma children (436 preschool and 551 schoolchildren) in three geographical regions of Slovenia were analyzed to establish the differences concerning coverage for specific vaccinations: poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella between the two generation...

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a rm can costlessly receive external knowledge best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a `goodness of t' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out that measures of the uncentered correla...

This article addresses the perceptual identification of French regional accents by listeners from the Paris region and Belgium. It is based on the geographical localisation of about thirty speakers from seven French-speaking areas: Vendee (West of France), Languedoc (South of France), Alsace (East of France), Romand Switzerland, East, Centre and West of Belgium. Contrary to the speake bracket (...