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Building a Transnational Biosurveillance Network Using Semantic Web Technologies: Requirements, Design, and Preliminary Evaluation

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance has reached globally alarming levels and is becoming a major public health threat. Lack of efficacious antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems was identified as one of the causes of increasing resistance, due to the lag time between new resistances and alerts to care providers. Several initiatives to track drug resistance evolution have been developed. ...

Building Transnational Bodies: Norway and the International Development of Laboratory Animal Science, ca. 1956–1980

This article adopts a historical perspective to examine the development of Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine, an auxiliary field which formed to facilitate the work of the biomedical sciences by systematically improving laboratory animal production, provision, and maintenance in the post Second World War period. We investigate how Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine co-developed at the ...

IVM Institute for Environmental Studies Transnational multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development Building blocks for success

Transnational multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development Acknowledgements From April to November 2014 the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) conducts an extensive discussion process to develop a " Zukunftscharta " (Charter of the Future – the Charter) that will guide its strategies for sustainable development. The International Civil Society Centre (IC...

Transnational Institution Building and the Multinational Corporation – An Emerging Field of Research

Socio-political processes in international management in post- socialist contexts: knowledge, learning and transnational institution building

This paper contributes to the recent debates and emerging concepts in the international business literature by applying a social-institutionalist perspective that focuses on the processes of institution building in ventures between Western multinational corporations and post-socialist enterprises. It is argued that the knowledge and learning processes within these transnational sites are consti...