The Hmong are a transnational ethnic people, because of their dispersal from China into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century and from Southeast Asia to Western countries from 1975 onward. However, even within the context of Southeast Asia and southern China, the Hmong are a transnational ethnic group, due to state boundaries and the enforcement of international laws. Scholars speak as thoug...

— We construct a disaggregated rural economywide model with a focus on gender and immigration as well as on the allocation of time to wage work, household production activities, and housework (reproduction). We use this model to simulate the impacts of the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) on rural incomes and welfare in the Dominican Republic. We find that eli...

Dr Caroline McIntosh is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Podiatry, National University of Ireland, Galway; Tracy Green is a Macmillan Lymphoedema Clinical Nurse Specialist, Macmillan Unit, The Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax Lymphoedema is a chronic progressive condition for which there is no cure. Unless it is managed effectively, lymphoedema can gradually deteriorate and treatment ca...

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Os professores de Engenharia devem considerar sempre a participação em algum nível de formação profissional em teoria e prática educacional. Alguns argumentariam que isso é especialmente importante no século XXI, porque os alunos de hoje podem aprender com os novos modelos viabilizados pela Internet e pelos media sociais. É verdade que o desenvolvimento de modelos teóricos para este novo tipo d...

1 Challenges in justifying the ICT expenditure The discussion commenced by discussing matters affecting the decisions to spend on ICT by government. Dr Kereteletswe indicated that we need to be in a position to justify to the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning the ICT expenditure. The chairman further added that currently the entire world is recovering from the economic melt-down henc...

Michael, K. (2007). Homo Electricus and the continued speciation of humans. In M. Quigley (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Information Ethics and Security (pp. 312-318). United States of America: IGI Global. http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/homo-electricus-continued-speciation-humans/13490

Chair and Department of General, Gastroenterological and Endocrine Surgery, K. Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznań1 Kierownik: prof. dr hab. M. Drews Chair and Department of General and Endocrine Surgery, K. Marcinkowski Medical University in Poznań2 Kierownik: dr hab. P. Krokowicz Chair and Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases, K. Marcinkowski Medical Universit...

I have received your letter dated December 1 2000, concerning the rejection of my manuscript which was submitted for publication in .... . I understand that the enclosed reviews are highly unfavorable and as an editor you were left with little choice but to reject the manuscript. I believe that the criticism of the reviewers, which are almost hostile towards the ideas I have advocated, are larg...