This essay provides an overview of the way in which regions and regional institutions have become increasingly important in debates about international security, making it possible to speak of a ‘regional dimension of global security’. After discussing some of the regional sources of insecurity past and present, and introducing the debate about the so-called ‘regionalization of security’, it fo...

The Federal Reserve System of the United States is making changes to its cash recirculation policy to reduce depository institutions’ (banks’) overuse of its cash processing services. These changes will affect operating policies and costs at many institutions having large cash businesses and, in turn, impact cash transportation and logistics providers. This study provides the framework to study...

MyUniversity is a European project to foster the eParticipation in European higher education institutions and allow their members to influence the final decision making performed by the institutions’ authorities. A framework, composed of the two existing interactive tools Gov2Demoss and Pnyx.eVoting, and a methodology to manage eParticipation initiatives have been created for this purpose. This...

In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe’s Great Depression. I argue that Europe could not exploit its vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end—indeed, it did not end before 1945. Both domestic and international institutions suffered from a lack of reciprocal trust and commitment, which can be clearly illustrated in the real...

Amid calls for graduate medical education (GME) to better prepare a workforce that can address growing challenges in health care quality and cost, institutions must find ways to more effectively educate and engage housestaff in quality improvement (QI) initiatives. Although the benefits for trainees and institutions alike can be significant, creating and maintaining successful strategies has pr...

Introduction This paper describes our experimental framework for a text analysis based fine-grained characterization of leading world institutions in Computer Science (CS) research. Though the present paper uses CS research output data from Web of Science, it can be extended and applied to any discipline and data source. The existing wellknown ranking systems, such as ARWU,Times Higher Educatio...

Environmental policy-making is the art of taking right decisions based on insufficient knowledge of the underlying issues. To help decision-makers cope with this uncertainty, transnational networks of experts have been offering numerous assessments of the state of knowledge, often advertised as consensus of “international science”. These networks—such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...

BACKGROUND The establishment of scientific collaborations with researchers abroad can be considered a good practice to make appropriate use of their knowledge and to increase the possibilities of them returning to their country. This paper analyses the collaboration between Spanish researchers abroad devoted to health sciences and national science institutions. METHODS We used the Fontes' app...

Large heritage institutions have been addressing the demands posed by digital preservation needs for some time. In contrast small institutions and private users are less prepared to handle these challenges. An increasing quantity of digital collections is held by small institution with limited knowhow and awareness of digital preservation. Digital assets are becoming more important for an incre...

Medical image data is naturally distributed among clinical institutions. This partitioning, combined with security and privacy restrictions on medical data, imposes limitations on machine learning algorithms in clinical applications, especially for small and newly established institutions. We present InsuLearn: an intuitive and robust open-source† platform designed to facilitate distributed lea...