Economic globalization and advances in technology have made it more feasible and even necessary to develop international research collaborations in global public health. Historically, collaborations in global research described in the literature have been mostly "North-South" collaborations in which the more developed "North" country works together with a developing "South" country to conduct r...

Member Societies can be a society, a group of societies, or an appropriate body, representing the health and biomedical informatics activities within a country. Generally, only one member society may be admitted from a country. For example , the American Medical Informatics Association is the member society representing the United States, and KOSMI is the member society representing Korea in th...

sTUDIES of the liveweight gains of beef cattle have been undertaken at several places in North Queensland. These have included “Wairuna”, 50 miles W. of Cardwell, in a 28-inch rainfall area fairly typical of a large area of cattle country in North Queensland; the Bureau of Tropical Agriculture, South Johnstone, where cattle are grazed on tropical grasses and legumes grown under the high rainfal...

Technology transfer from north to south has been studied in several research projects. This paper describes a case of transfer of technology from one developing country to another. It describes the process of selection, installation, assimilation and adaptation of a district health information system for Mozambique based on the South African health information system. While north-south transfer...

In England and Wales as a whole the frequency of neural tube malformations is highest in the north and north-west, and lowest in the east, south-east, and south (Rogers, 1969). Differences have also been reported in the regional frequency of anencephalus, spina bifida, and hydrocephalus in Scotland (Edwards, 1958), and Hewitt (1963) found that the mortality attributed to spina bifida was two to...

The unstable political situation in the former Yugoslavia has resulted in inter-ethnic conflict with profound economic, social and human rights consequences. It led to a major military intervention by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces. A large proportion of the Kosovars were forced to abandon their homes and seek refuge in Macedonia and Albania. The government of Macedonia was ve...

The study investigated the 2011 TPGA Ever Rich Championship – North Bay Open spectators’ on-the-site spectating motivations, experiences, and satisfactions. The research was conducted on a convenience sample of the on-the-spot spectators at the North Bay Golf and Country Club. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed, of which 185 valid questionnaires were collected, approaching a 92.5% r...

Analyzing data on 152 countries using network and regression analyses, this study examined how countries’ positions in the global Internet are associated with their political, economic, technological characteristics, those characteristics related to media, information, digital (MID) education programs countries. This research shows higher levels of international bandwidth capacity, use, press f...