Informing in the Flat, Rough World: Balancing Globalization Gone Awry

Business as Usual: A Lack of Institutional Innovation in Global Health Governance; Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?”

There were once again high expectations that a major global health event - the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014-2015 - would trigger meaningfully World Health Organization (WHO) reform and strengthen global health governance (GHG). Rather than a “turning point,” however, the global community has gone back to business as usual. This has occurred against a backdrop of worldwide political turmoil, cha...

Simple procedure gone awry: Urethro-venous intravasation during urethrography

Semiotic Approach to Globalization: Living in a World of Glocal Things

This paper is an effort to discuss the concept of glocalization from a semiotic point of view. In order to carry out a semiotic analysis of globalization or glocalization, first globalization needs to be defined from a semiotic perspective. Therefore, first an explanation of globalization and glocalization in semiotic terms is provided. Some believe the ongoing process in the world cannot be be...

Regulating research with vulnerable populations: litigation gone awry.

World informatization in conditions of international globalization: Factors of influence

The level of information today is decisive in the socio-economic development of the country. The purpose of the article is to identify the most influential factors in the process of developing informatization in the context of international globalization. The assessment of factors influencing world information is based on the following stages: forming incoming information about the state of wor...