The outgoing Director-General of the World Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, has successfully returned health issues to the international arena. The new Director-General will have to cope with reduced control over funding, debate over WHO's mandate, and the relationships between WHO and other organisations. Despite the broad role described in WHO's constitution, many groups see WHO's ...

The Committee on Identifying the Needs of Forensic Sciences Community (2009) accentuates the establishment of a uniform code of ethics emphasizing the importance of enforceability in strengthening the role that the forensic science plays within the criminal justice system. Equally pertinent to the domain of digital forensics, this imperative entails a research commitment in comparing and contra...

The last decade has seen extraordinary advances in the cardiovascular arena, particularly in the evaluation and management of the patient who has acute coronary syndromes. From bedside markers of myocardial damage to drug-eluting stents, technical advances are proliferating. Efforts in developing an international registry for acute aortic dissection have helped elucidate the acute presentation,...

Each month the editor of Newsline selects article on diagnostic, therapeutic, research, and practice issues from a range of international publications. Many selections come from outside the standard canon of nuclear medicine and radiology journals. Note that although we have divided the articles into diagnostic and therapeutic categories, these lines are increasingly blurred as nuclear medicine...

Current conflicts in the international arena are wars of insurgent action. As this action has proven necessary in the building of nations historically, the increased utilization of tactics to include guerilla war and terrorism has become commonplace. The proper identification of conditions, which promote violence, as well as exacerbate the utilization of promotion of political violence (terrori...

There is a growing concern internationally about the continued rise in birth intervention. Caesarean section rates continue to rise within the international arena. Women are losing confidence in the birth process being natural and safe and often exhibit moderate to high levels of fear during pregnancy. Simultaneously midwives are in danger of losing their role as the guardians of normal birth. ...

In the early 1970s Schein identified managerial sex typing as a major psychological barrier to the advancement of women in the United States. The globalization of management brings to the forefront the need to examine the relationship between sex role stereotypes and requisite management characteristics in the international arena. A review of the replications of the Schein research in the Unite...

We study the determinants of agricultural market reforms in developing countries. What prompted the governments in these countries to abruptly begin deregulating their agricultural markets in the late 1980’s? We answer this question by constructing a completely new dataset based on agricultural market regulations in 88 developing countries from 1960 to 2003. Our results suggest that the sudden ...

The paper describes some possible ways how to improve Olympiads in Informatics. Tasks in Olympiads are small models of programming tasks in software industry and in the limited amount of competition time contestants need to complete several software production phases – coding, testing and debugging. Currently, only coding effort is adequately graded, but grading of other activities may be impro...

Article history: Received 1 February 2006 Accepted 9 September 2007 Available online xxxx Our reviewof corporate responsibility (CR) research in InternationalManagement journals during the past decade identified 321 articles of interest.We categorized and bibliographically referenced these articles to provide a foundation for future research in this arena. Our categorization scheme consisted of...