T United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan opened the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS on June 25 in New York and declared that “the world has started to wake up” to the biggest epidemic since bubonic plague swept through Europe in the 14th century. The 3-day conference, the first-ever UN meeting devoted to a publichealth issue, was aimed at drafting a political Declaration of ...

T he progress report on the UN secretary general’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, Saving Lives, Protecting Futures, notes that “innovation is essential to achieving the ultimate goal of ending preventable deaths among women and children and ensuring they thrive.”1 The report advocates for integrated innovation, which combines science and technology and social, business, and ...

Quality education is one of the pillars UN sustainable development. The proposition was pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping at National Conference on University Ideological and Political Work that “Universities colleges should be based moral talent cultivation”. It required to take idea “Moral Talent Cultivation” as university guiding coordinate development all kinds work, starting from...

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The book ‘Breaking Barriers: Story of a Dalit Chief Secretary’ published by Emesco Books Private Limited in 2022, and edited D. Chandrasekhar Reddy, is powerful account journey from fear to fearlessness, subjugation assertion being no one becoming revered exemplary civil servant. Authored the former IAS officer Kaki Madhava Rao, explores inner mechanism service at ground level casts light on mi...

The elements of a finite nonempty partially ordered set are exposed at independent uniform times in [0,1] to a selector who, at any given time, can see the structure of the induced partial order on the exposed elements. The selector’s task is to choose online a maximal element. This generalizes the classical linear order secretary problem, for which it is known that the selector can succeed wit...

Abstract The election of Donald Trump posed an existential challenge to NATO. At the end his tenure, however, US president had neither withdrawn membership nor substantially undermined alliance from within. This article helps explain puzzle why NATO survived Trump's presidency. Extant explanations emphasize domestic factors such as foreign policy machinery and entrenched liberal ideology, struc...

The multiple criteria secretary problem in which the criteria are independent and the objective is to choose an applicant that is best in at least one criterion was solved by Gnedin (1981). We generalize this result to the case of two criteria that may be dependent. Two models, one assuming independence of the vectors of ranks and the other assuming independence of the variables on which the ra...