The use of FDI as a channel of international spillovers is by now fairly established in the empirical literature on innovation and growth. It is often argued that subsidiaries of foreign MNEs are a mechanism through which technological know-how flows across borders. For foreign subsidiaries to be channels of international spillovers, these subsidiaries need to source know-how internationally an...

Since the initial reports of a link between Zika and microcephaly, researchers across the world began working toward understanding the virus. In a short amount of time, Zika has become a household name, prompting worldwide concern. The virus is spread rapidly by mosquito bites. We currently do not have a vaccine for Zika. But with the recent findings, vaccine companies are mobilizing their reso...

This paper provides an analysis of the factors which influence the adoption of educational technology in higher education. It argues that the technology is mature enough, although care needs to be taken about definitions of terms used. The role of educational technology is analysed in terms of what we know about learning, and the conclusion drawn that we know enough about the design of educatio...

intelligent information technology 7th international conference on information technology cit 2004 What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positi...

Information technology is one potential object of responsibility as we know from texts about computer ethics, information ethics etc. This article aims to demonstrate that the ethical problems of computers and information technology frequently result from anthropological assumptions. The interaction of humans and computers is more than just the use of a value-neutral tool. The use of informatio...

in fact, health strategists and policymakers contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, providing and evaluating health care, and the use of various capabilities of itc. the evidence for this claim includes: e-government, e-development, e-commerce, e-assurance and the same issues which are pursued in high levels of govemment’s legislative and executive bodies. e-health is consi...

We consider the k-payment problem: given a total budget of N units, the problem is to represent this budget as a set of coins, so that any k exact payments of total value at most N can be made using k disjoint subsets of the coins. The goal is to minimize the number of coins for any givenN and k, while allowing the actual payments to be made on-line, namely without the need to know all payment ...