Confronting Autism in Urban Bangladesh: Unpacking Infrastructural and Cultural Challenges

Confronting the challenges in reconnecting urban planning and public health.

Although public health and urban planning emerged with the common goal of preventing urban outbreaks of infectious disease, there is little overlap between the fields today. The separation of the fields has contributed to uncoordinated efforts to address the health of urban populations and a general failure to recognize the links between, for example, the built environment and health disparitie...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

Context-Aware Framework of Knowledge Management: Cultural and Infrastructural Considerations

Multiple case studies in India, The Gambia, and Nigeria are the background for an empirically grounded framework of knowledge management (KM). Cultural diversity and gaps in the provision of infrastructure make managing knowledge challenging but necessary in developing countries. These environmental factors interact with organisational variables and technology to enable or constrain knowledge m...

Confronting the Challenges of Graphs and Networks

Many current and emerging Department of Defense (DoD) challenges require the analysis of very large datasets containing millions, billions, or even trillions of entities. While the sheer number of entities presents a significant challenge by itself, the analysis task is further complicated by the fact that the activities, objects, or individuals of interest are commonly tightly embedded within ...

Challenges confronting clinicians in acute care.

AIM To engage acute care clinicians in prioritizing professional issues of concern and to help them identify and design change projects. Background In order to meet and respond to challenges and to ensure safety, efficiency and positive patient and staff outcomes, it is imperative to understand the nature of difficulties faced by health professionals and for clinicians to be included in decisio...