The article discusses a concept of development of telemedicine in the Republic of Moldova that determines the role and place of telemedicine in the structure of health services and sets priority development directions, considering the processes of development of the Republic of Moldova and its objective of integration with the European Union. In the article we refer to telemedicine as to the us...

The 1990s witnessed the parallel forces of globalization and regionalization strongly at work. While seemingly contradictory, they are in fact complementary dimensions of market development. This background paper will focus on the latter, and its special dimension of regionalism; i.e., policy driven regional cooperation. Particular attention will be given to the recent advances and challenges i...

This study aims to evaluate the members of Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC) in terms human capital performance using CRITIC (Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) and COPRAS (Complex Proportional Assessment) methods. A hybrid method has been used analysis. integrated model consists a combination The was find objective weights criteria. rank countries according...

1 Department of Information Technologies Abo Akademi University Turku Center for Computer Science FIN-20520 Turku, Finland [email protected] and Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Academy of Sciences of Moldova Str. Academiei 5, Chişinău, MD-2028, Moldova [email protected] 2 Faculty of Informatics Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstr. 9, 1040 Vienna, Austria {rudi,marion}@emcc.at...

1 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Academy of Sciences of Moldova Academiei 5, Chişinău MD-2028 Moldova {artiom,rogozhin}@math.md 2 IEC, Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8527 Japan 3 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35, Tarragona 43002 Spain alexand...

The new regionalism tends to emphasize the commonalities of central cities and their suburbs. Los Angeles County has surprisingly minor differences between central city and suburb—leading one to wonder why municipal alliances across jurisdictional lines have not been more prominent. The author tackles this anomaly by breaking L.A. County into 58 different areas and tracking demographic and econ...

The number of regional trade agreements has nearly doubled in the last four years. Interestingly, relatively small countries have put enormous effort into joining regional agreements with larger countries during this period. In this paper, we address the following question: why are small countries so eager to be a part of these agreements? We construct a general equilibrium model of a natural t...

The emergence of East Asian regionalism is arguably one of the most important developments in the international relations of Asia. The trend began in 1997, when the region was hit by a massive economic crisis. The crisis undermined the credibility of regional institutions that were developed within a sub-regional or Asia-Pacific basis, namely the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ...