The use of foreign direct investment as a channel of international spillovers is by now fairly established in the empirical literature on innovation and growth. It is often argued that subsidiaries of foreign multinational enterprises are a mechanism through which technological know-how flows across borders. For foreign subsidiaries to be channels of international spillovers, these subsidiaries...

In this review article, we aim to depict how healthcare facilities may look in the near future from an architectural design point of view. For this purpose, we review newly introduced technology and medical advances in the field of healthcare, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic surgery, 3D printing, and information technology (IT), and suggest how those advances may affect the archit...

IT organisations are increasingly called on to contribute to organisational goals for environmental sustainability. To do so, they first need to be aware of why they should “Green IT” as well as understand what it is they need to know and how they can embed this knowledge throughout the organisation. This paper reports a contextualist analysis of six case studies to unravel the why, what and ho...

INTRODUCTION Quality forest habitats provide not only the vegetation structure needed by wildlife, but also adequate resources such as food and water. Soft mast is an important component of forest wildlife habitat, comprising a great percentage of the seasonal diets of many wildlife species (Martin and others 1951). Soft mast from different plant species varies in nutritional quality (Halls 197...

On our courses we need to establish what student teachers need to know about grammar, as well as what pupils need to know. Given the constraints of time, particularly on oneyear routes, our intention is to develop an understanding of the complexity of grammatical description, the interrelatedness of the terms included in glossaries that accompany curriculum requirements, and to challenge prejud...

Secure similar document detection (SSDD) plays an important role in many applications, such as justifying the need-to-know basis and facilitating communication between government agencies. The SSDD problem considers situations where Alice with a query document wants to find similar information from Bob’s document collection. During this process, the content of the query document is not disclose...

Distributed protocols that run in dynamic environments such as the Internet are often not able to use an upper bound on the number of potentially participating processes. In these settings adaptive and uniform algorithms are desirable where the step complexity of all operations is a function of the number of concurrently participating processes (adaptive) and the algorithm does not need to know...