Corruption in the health sector has been a “dirty secret” in the health policy and international development community, but recent global activities point to a day when it will no longer be neglected as a key determinant of health. To further explore next steps forward, this commentary applies the Kingdon’s multiple-streams framework (MSF) to assess what opportunities are available to mobilize ...

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is an emerging alternative route to the Suez Canal; however, inconclusive research exists on its benefits and viability. This paper uses a two-stage Delphi approach collect qualitative data from experts, what actions Nordic countries (Nordic are Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, as well Faroe Islands, Greenland, Åland Co-operation, 2020)) can undertake prep...

in the present study iran’s rice imports trend is forecasted, using artificial neural networks and econometric methods, during 2009 to 2013, and their results are compared. the results showed that feet forward neural network leading with less forecast error and had better performance in comparison to econometric techniques and also, other methods of neural networks, such as recurrent networks a...

1. Improved understanding of social, political, economic, and ecological interactions and development of knowledge based interventions for improved health and well-being outcomes, through participatory research, led by Ecohealth partners jointly with the local and policy communities, on selected thematic entry points. 2. More informed policy making and improved policy implementation on issue ar...

BACKGROUND The Fogarty International Center (FIC) has supported research capacity development for over twenty years. While the mission of FIC is supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global he...

Members of the 67th World Health Assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide World Health Organization (WHO) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of WHO reform kick-started in 2011. According to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

ference featured 8 speakers and 35 poster presentations.) opened the conference with a presentation on the search for the origins of HIV. The evidence indicates that two simian immu-nodeficiency viruses (SIV), one from chimpanzees (SIVcpz) and the other from sooty mangabeys (SIVsm), crossed the species barrier to humans, generating HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively. Dr. Hahn stressed the importance...

The IP converge the multi-applications over Internet, and ATM will construct global networks for IP development. It is a significant research to associate those projects. The vision is that company or enterprise will have ATM switches on their own site to transfer bulk data across Internet. In this paper, we propose a lightweight security mechanism to support secure communications for ATM Netwo...