Virtually all forms of corruption are proscribed by virtually all countries. Why, then, don’t countries optimally reduce corruption? If countries have trouble fighting corruption, it may be because of insufficient will or insufficient local capacities of several kinds. These capacities include having proper strategies and structures (including incentive structures) that would optimally inhibit ...

Background: At the end of the 19th century, international communities have realized the necessity of global planning and cooperation. Accordingly, worldwide meetings have been organized for several years. This study aims to assess the achievement of predetermined objectives by international conferences in the field of risk management. Materials and Methods: The search for articles and document...

The adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a historical momentum for disabled persons and their associates, as well as ODA workers in the development cooperation field all over the world. For the last two decades, persons with disabilities, their associates and professionals working in this field have promoted their human rights, equality, nondisc...

background the migration of dentists is a major policy challenge facing both developing and developed countries. dentists from over 120 countries migrate to australia, and a large proportion are from developing countries. the aim of the study was to assess the life story experience (lse) of migrant dentists in australia, in order to address key policy challenges facing dentist migration.   meth...

This paper studies the relationship between cooperation patterns and resources of university in international science and technology cooperation and exchanges based on correspondence analysis method, makes assessment and judgment about pattern selection of international science and technology cooperation between universities in terms of human resources, technology level, financial resources, an...

Embedded systems typically include reactive and transformative functions, often described in different languages and semantics which are well introduced in the various application fields. A large part of the system functionality and components is reused from previous designs including legacy code. There is little hope that a single language will replace this heterogeneous set of languages. A ha...

The units that are subject to selection pressure in evolutionary biology are 'strategies', which are conditional actions ('Do P if X occurs, otherwise do Q'). In contrast, the units in economics select strategies from available menus so as to further their projects and purposes. As economic agents do not live in isolation, each agent's optimum choice, in general, depends on the choices made by ...

February 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 2 | e43 The term “globalization” was popularized by Marshall McLuhan in War and Peace in the Global Village . In the book, McLuhan described how the global media shaped current events surrounding the Vietnam War [1] and also predicted how modern information and communication technologies would accelerate world progress through trade and knowledge development. Gl...