“Ever heard of EVEL Knievel?”: James Bond meets the Rural sheriff

The consequences of imitative behavior in children: the "Evel Knievel syndrome".

James Bond and Global Health Diplomacy

In the 21st Century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. As a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

John Flynn meets James Mackenzie: developing the discipline of rural and remote medicine in Australia.

This commentary is a reflection on the lives of two men, whose qualities seem to reflect those needed in the establishment of the academic discipline of rural and remote medicine in Australia. The two men displayed three characteristics which those involved in change require: they were there; they equipped themselves to make a difference; they were not afraid of where change might take them. If...

James Bond and Global Health Diplomacy.

In the 21st Century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. As a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

James Bond and Michael Ovitz: The Secret Life of Agents

As agents populate Cyberspace in their many guises and roles, they coordinate and interact in different ways, spanning self-interested, as well as collaborative interactions. Agent coordination should be supported by an agent’s internal architecture and agent societal frameworks. We take a micro-economic view of coordination. In this talk we report on our work on adaptive agent architecture and...