Aggregate health expenditures as a share of GDP have risen in the United States from about 5 percent in 1960 to nearly 14 percent in recent years. Why? This paper explores a simple explanation based on technological progress. Technological advances allow diseases to be cured today, at a cost, that could not be cured at any price in the past. When this technological progress is combined with a M...

The approach used to model technological change in a climate policy model is a critical determinant of its results. We provide an overview of the different approaches used in the literature, with an emphasis on recent developments regarding endogenous technological change, research and development, and learning. Detailed examination sheds light on the salient features of each approach, includin...

A Technological District (TD) is a form of Collaborative Network in a limited geographical area, where a variety of economic entities (enterprises, research centres, public administrations) are involved in high-intensive research activities and distributed scientific-technological processes, including knowledge sharing and technological innovation.In this paper, we hypothesize a TD scenario whe...

Sleepers awake! The Y2K Problem may or may not be a technological disaster. But either way, the aftermath of the technological problems will be legal problems. Litigation over who should have done what will include damage claims for failures of software and liability for failure to prepare. The legal problems will be a disaster costing potentially trillions of dollars. Once the frenzy of litiga...

The OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA), advocates the use of software engineering processes that focus on models. Then, models are considered as being independent of platforms (PIM) or specific to a given platform (PSM). Defining PIM and PSM according to the concept of ”platform”, the OMG implies that platforms are central to MDA processes. Nevertheless, there is no such a definition provide...

We propose that Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) should be designed by taking into account the characteristics, the special needs and the specific operating rules of the academic institutions in which they are employed. In this context, we describe a VLE module that extends the support of the organization and delivery of course material by including administration activities related to the ...

Through the use of technology in classroom, teachers can improve their ability to deliver effective and relevant content. Teachers should be more prepared apply this ensure that students will have fun a high interest continuing learn era globalization which is based on these information communication elements classroom during teaching facilitation process. Thus, study was identify relationship ...

Mobile technologies and more precisely apps have disrupted technology scenario. Bring your own application (BYOA) is a new trend that has emerged after the “bring your own device” (BYOD) vogue. However, and in spite of its intrinsic benefits, the trend presents also several caveats and Enterprise app stores are seen as a way to tackle these risks. In this paper, authors present ModEAS, a system...

Social reformers such as John Stuart Mill and John Dewey have long expressed concern about a tension between democratic principles and organizational practices that appear undemocratic.' More recently, a substantial body of academic literature advocating changes in organizations to make them more democratic has been produced.2 Change has been advocated on a variety of normative grounds. In a no...