Drawing upon the preliminary findings of an Australian empirical project on cross-border reproduction (CBR), this article argues that regulators and policymakers could learn from the experiences of those who travel overseas in order to access fertility treatment and surrogacy. It makes four principal observations. First, the distinction between so-called 'altruistic' and 'commercial' gamete don...

The nations of the European Union (EU) spent €80 billion ($100 billion) last year on public nonmilitary research and development , yet European science still seems to have a quality gap compared with the US. For example, the EU produces 33% of research papers published annually worldwide but garners only 34% of citations, compared with the US, which publishes 29% of papers but earns 41% of cita...

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The Financial Crisis of 2007-8 triggered a large-scale overhaul of European and Global Financial Services Regulation. Financial institutions are now subject to more far-reaching and onerous regulation, as well as the prospect of increased regulatory fines. The European Market Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR”) (and parallel regimes in other G20 members countries) is part of this new landscape. ...

The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce has injected new vitality and productivity to e-commerce. But it also brought the lag problem of cross-border logistics and distribution system. Under current models of logistics and distribution, the order cycle is too long to be efficient which coexist with high cost, uncontrollable risks and complicated procedure. These factors have hindered t...

Background: The fertility tourism is a term refers to the cross-border movements made by infertile patients in order to receive reproductive treatment through assisted reproductive technology. In recent years the number of countries involved in medical tourism has been increased. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the research that has explored aspects of crossborder reproductiv...

Electronic Identities (eID) and their cross-border recognition are on top of the agenda of various e-Government initiatives of the European Commission (EC). Therefore, the EC launched the EU large scale pilot STORK, which was running for about 3.5 years and finished at the end of 2011. In this period, STORK has established a European eID interoperability platform for citizens. The focus of STOR...

--------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------------------------Healthcare delivery is a collaborative process with many healthcare practitioners from multiple healthcare organizations participating in patients’ treatment. Allergies affect nearly one-fourth of the world population and cause or contribute to significant chronic illness. C...