Referencing scholarly debates on humanitarianism and specifically HIV interventions, this article analyses the commodification of health in Botswana’s political arena throughout the HIV pandemic and beyond, contributing to a re-evaluation of the distribution of public wealth and international support in welfare states in Africa. The starting point of the analysis is a project to build a private...

Transporter is a critical part of Supply Chain integration. An international transporter process involves multiple ground pickup and delivery operations, package sorting and palletizing, airport operations and air transport. This paper describes a successful two-machine implementation of a distributed simulation model for an international transportation system in a supply chain network operatio...

The phenomenon of China’s rise as an emerging scientific power has been well documented, yet the development of its social science is less explored. Utilizing up-to-date Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) publication data (1978–2013), this paper probes the patterns and dynamics of China’s social science research via bibliometric analyses. Our research indicates that despite the national orien...

Recent national and multinational investments (1) in networking and continued gains in information technological capability (2) have given rise to a complex cyberinfrastructure that is rapidly increasing our ability to produce, manage, and use data (3). As research becomes increasingly global (4), data-intensive, and multifaceted (5, 6), it is imperative to address national and international da...

Developing countries are increasingly coming under pressure to improve their delivery of veterinary services as a prerequisite for entering the competitive arena of international trade in animals and animal products. The demands placed on developing countries by predominantly developed countries to comply with international disease prevention standards have also resulted in increasing demands o...

This paper describes the first attempt to introduce evolutionarily designed players into the international Robocode league, a simulationbased game wherein robotic tanks fight to destruction in a closed arena. Using genetic programming to evolve tank strategies for this highly active forum, we were able to rank third out of twenty-seven players in the category of HaikuBots. Our GPBot was the onl...

s and Short Papers Standardization in Telemedicine in India: Initiatives and Policy Issues B.S.Bedi 189 Taking Telemedicine To Indian Villages The Wimax Way D. Lavanian 190 Teleradiology Clinical Experience and Education R.B. Gujral , Archna Gupta 192 Telemedicine for Disaster Mitigation in Health A Ayyagari, Ujjala Ghoshal 193 Tele-Consultancy in Specialty Medicine Bidyut Das 194 Tele-Cme for ...

This chapter develops a model of adoption and continued use of knowledge management systems (KMSs), which is primarily built on Rogers’ (1995) innovation stages model along with two very important social psychology theories—Ajzen and Fishbein’s (1980) theory of reasoned action (TRA) and Davis’s (1986) technology acceptance model (TAM). It presents various factors and variables in detail. Hypoth...

This study aims to help business community understand other cultures by utilizing the database. Particularly, the comprehensive information on the member states of ASEAN, which should be perceive as Blue Oceans, will be used for the companies to survive the global competition. In the midst of the global business arena, cultural literacy plays a very important role in expanding business overseas...

The paper provides a functional, practically oriented overview of the concept and technical possibilities of monitoring the neuromuscular fatigue via the electromyographic and the mechanomyographic signals, as essentially related to the muscle contraction and intimately mirroring muscle activation and contraction mechanisms. The Fast Fourier Transform-based and Wavelet Transform-based technique...