In many conferences and meetings in management subjects today, some academic scholars blame themselves and their academic societies for not producing useful research. Here, usefulness refers to the type of a research that can be useful in real practice and lead to the improvement of organizations. Since the gap between academic research and industry practices has increased in recent years, ther...

Collaboration between endemic and non-endemic partners has always been essential for leprosy research: patients and clinical knowledge are mainly found in endemic countries, whereas technical advances and opportunities are usually first available in non-endemic countries. During the period 1976–1995 the WHO IMMLEP and THELEP Special Programmes provided forums for the melding of basic and field ...

EEPSEA was established in May 1993 to support research and training in environmental and resource economics. Its objective is to enhance local capacity to undertake the economic analysis of environmental problems and policies. It uses a networking approach, involving courses, meetings, technical support, access to literature and opportunities for a competitive research. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The aut...

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People have faced conflicts for shifting scheduled meetings to other time slots in order to fit incoming meetings or to find a time slot to book a meeting. The goal of this research is to develop a personal distributed meeting scheduler in FCVW (Federated Collaborative Virtual Workspace) that assists users to deal with these situations. FCVW is an extension of CVW [6] developed by MITRE. In our...