Towards Universal Principles for Global Animal Advocacy

HCI and Society: Towards a Typology of Universal Design Principles

The task of this article is to focus on aspects of design from a theoretical perspective that works out a general framework of techno-social design that is grounded in the notion of the participatory, cooperative, sustainable information society. The approach is normative in that it is based on the judgment that not just any information society is needed, but one that has specific qualities tha...

Connecting the Universal to the Specific: Towards the Global Grid

Despite their widespread use in Natural Language Processing applications, lexical databases and wordnets in particular do not yet contribute satisfactorily to the difficult problem of automatic word sense discrimination. Having built a number of lexical databases ourselves, we are keenly aware of still unresolved fundamental theoretical issues. In this paper we examine some of these questions a...

Advocacy for identifying certain animal diseases as “neglected”

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect almost 1,000,000,000 people in 149 countries (http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/ diseases/en/). Most are small family farmers living in the least-developed countries where health systems are often inadequate, and climate conditions are favourable to infectious and parasitic diseases. These diseases h...

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage

Principles of Animal Virology

pertinent background information. Since new data are usually available to the author only from his own laboratory, work of others is rarely covered adequately. In the course of publication the novelty of the studies reported in a symposium is inevitably lost, the give and take of the discussion is seldom reproduced and one is left with a disconnected group of papers, each emphasizing work in on...