Digitalisation: An Opportunity or a Risk?

Teaching Scholarship: An Opportunity for Faculty Development or a Threat

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Crossbreeding: A Dirty Word or an Opportunity?

Historically, genetic improvement programs for dairy cattle focused on within-breed selection strategies due to the strong role of breed associations in developing selection policies and a milk pricing system that rewarded volume rather than cheese yield. As a result, Holsteins became the predominant breed in the US and most other major milk producing nations. However, farmers have become incre...

Prison health: a threat or an opportunity?

Medical Tourism: A Fad or an Opportunity; Comment on “Patient Mobility in the Global Marketplace: A Multidisciplinary Perspective”

This article is a commentary of an overview on “medical tourism” submitted by Lunt and Marrion, which describes a framework for the study of the issues related to medical tourism. The commentary attempts to differentiate between the current interest in medical tourism and the time-honored and well-established treatment abroad from countries with underdeveloped health systems. The commentary als...

Rural Poor Economies and Foreign Investors: An Opportunity or a Risk?

In the current age of commercial and financial openness, remote and poor local economies are becoming increasingly exposed to inflows of external capital. The new investors - enjoying lower credit constraints than local dwellers - might play a propulsive role in local development. At the same time, inflows of external capital can have negative impacts on local natural resource-dependent activit...