This paper uses identical surveys conducted in July 2020 eight countries – U.S., U.K., Germany, Italy, Sweden, China, South Korea, and Japan examines teleworking within across these countries. We seek to answer the following questions: (1) Which demographic socioeconomic groups are more likely telework? (2) Is there any association between telework other work-related experiences such as life sa...

In 2001, following the development of International Standards in basic medical education, WFME appointed an international Task Force for development of International Guidelines for Postgraduate Specialist Training. Reports of this Task Force were published in September 2001. These Guidelines has been structured in 9 areas and 37 sub-areas. The areas of these guidelines are mission & outcomes, t...

Background This article looks at the long-term, structural determinants of environmental and public health performance in the world system.   Methods In multiple standard ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models, we tested the effects of 26 standard predictor variables, including the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services, on the following indicators of sustainable develop...

In 2005, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany, submitted an ampoule with about 79 MBq activity of Tc to the International Reference System (SIR) for activity comparison at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), to update their value in the key comparison database for the BIPM.RI(II)-K1.Tc-99m comparison. A graphical presentation is also given of the results fo...