Clinical research has become increasingly globalized, but the extent of globalization has not been assessed. To describe the globalization of clinical research, we used all (n = 13,208) multinational trials registered at ClinicalTrials.gov to analyzed geographic connections among individual countries. Our findings indicate that 95% (n = 185) of all countries worldwide have participated in multi...

Late in each year a meeting of interested people consisting of a mix of RACGP members, academic general practitioners and epidemiologists, is held to determine the conditions to be recorded in the following year. The choices are made from the interests of the group and expressions of interest from groups or people external to the RACGP. A strong emphasis is given to recording information that w...

Active networks address the problem of slow network evolution, when compared with the evolution of applications. The active approach builds programmability into the network, so that new protocols and functionalities may be added later. While classical, “passive” routers all implement the same functionality, the active routers all implement the same computational model. The active technology is ...

The collaboration has resulted in multiple publications in peer review journals. The lines of research spawned by the collaboration are now being summarized in book length reviews of the literature on what really makes a difference in treatment outcomes. Subsequent sections of this document will summarize this research, including updated summaries of as yet unpublished findings from the ongoing...

The relationship between national income and government spending is one of the most debated topics between economists and policy makers during the last decades. The objective of this paper is to examine the Wagner’s law validity, and if it can be applied in the U.K. public spending expansion for the period 1850-2010. According to Wagner’s hypothesis, fundamental economic growth is a determinant...

An isolated network is critical to the successful analysis of vulnerabilities and attack tools. Maintaining such a network introduces issues of policy and implementation which conflict with the need to transport data from the Internet to the network. This paper describes the goals of one isolated network, the policy and implementation that satisfies those goals, and other considerations to prot...