It is now widely recognized that effective communication is a crucial element in radiological/nuclear terrorism preparedness. Whereas in the past, communication and information issues were sometimes viewed as secondary in comparison with technical concerns, today the need to improve risk communication, public information, and emergency messaging is seen as a high priority. The process of improv...

Introduction The collection, use and disclosure of information in the context of assisted human reproduction warrant careful consideration. Consider the stories of Charles and Meera. Charles is interested in donating sperm anonymously. Charles’ sister and her partner used anonymous sperm to create their family, and he wants to help someone else do the same. But when he learns of the information...

Over the last decade, a number of western government agencies and international organisations have increasingly turned their attention to fragility and failure of state institutions as a major international policy challenge in the fields of security and development assistance. The concepts of “fragile” and “failed states” are now widely used in diplomatic negotiations on global security, peacek...

Solving major, persistent public health problems requires new policies and more aggressive, sweeping interventions that affect large populations. We need well-conceived health policies and effective interventions for environmental change, but are we likely to get them? To find out, the Directors of Health Promotion and Education and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated ...

This paper considers a hypothetical government-run credit rating agency with a “fixed compensation” scheme. Taking as granted the fact that investors ascribe higher value for highly rated assets, the model attempts to see whether government intervention can lead to a more socially desirable solution. The model features a free rating agent who can either choose to work for the government agency ...

Nanotechnology patent applications published during 1991-2008 have been examined using the "title-abstract" keyword search on esp@cenet "worldwide" database. The longitudinal evolution of the number of patent applications, their topics, and their respective patent families have been evaluated for 15 national patent offices covering 98% of the total global activity. The patent offices of the Uni...

The objective of this study is to understand why e-government projects are initiated at the first place. I define an e-government project as an effort by a government agency by itself or by partnership with other government agencies, private firms and/or civil societal organizations to use information and communication technologies (hereafter ICTs; they are technologies that capture, transmit a...

The control of dengue outbreak requires a multi-pronged effort by the various government agencies. It requires co-operation of the community in the control activities, strict adherence to existing control procedures and guidelines by health personnel, increased manpower where necessary and strengthening co-operation between various health agencies to prevent delay in instituting control measures.

December 2009 A 531 4.7% respectively, compared with the previous year. Also in 2007, China issued its first National Environment and Health Action Plan (2007-2015) (Ministry of Health of China 2007). The plan addresses the need to establish nationwide surveillance networks for environment and health, and for different government agencies and stake holders to share information and take responsi...

Predictive coding is one of the most promising technologies to reduce the high cost of review by improving the efficiency of the review process. Limitations of available technology to provide a repeatable and well-defined predictive coding workflow have led to questions of its defensibility in court, and slow acceptance within legal departments. Symantec Transparent Predictive Coding provides a...