Wildlife damage estimation and prediction using blog and tweet information is conducted. Through a regressive analysis with the truth data about wildlife damage which is acquired by the federal and provincial governments and the blog and the tweet information about wildlife damage which are acquired in the same year, it is found that some possibility for estimation and prediction of wildlife da...

William Gardner, Katherine Fierlbeck and Adrian Levy have laid out a bold plan in this issue of Healthcare Papers for breaking through the impasse in federal–provincial relations around healthcare. As one of the commentators notes, their plan is elegant. It includes goals, measurement and alignment of incentives for improvement; three common sense elements of management with which it is hard to...

In line with the pressures of energy shortage and economic development, Chinese government has adopted a series of measures and policies to promote the exploitation and utilization efficiency of electric power. China is urgently reconsidering its electric power development level and coordinating between power supply and demand sides. Therefore, in this paper, Chinese industrial structure of ele...

This paper describes the mechanics of establishing a voluntary, incentive-based integrated coastal management program in Indonesia that is consistent with the newly established laws relating to decentralization. It first offers a close analysis of those laws, specifically Act No. 22/1999 and its implementing Regulation No. 25/2000 regarding management authorities, and Act No. 25/1999 and its im...

Zhen Li, Jianling Hou, Rongtao Zheng, Zhongwei Li, Jing Wen, Dianchang Liu, Ruyuan Liu, Tongsheng Chu, Bing Liu, Gongqi Yu, Hongqing Tian, FuRen Zhang Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Provincial Academy of Medical Science, Jinan, Shandong, China; Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases, Jinan, Shandong, China; Shandong Provincial Medical Center for Dermatoven...

The concept of alliance or preferably ‘alignment’, as I shall explain below – is central to the conduct of international politics, and thus the discipline of International Relations (IR). Duffield et al. (2008: 291) identify that ‘Alliances are one of the most significant phenomena in security studies and world politics more generally’, while Modelski (1963: 773) considers them ‘one of a dozen ...

In this article I locate some of the fundamental problems of self-determination within the context of an evolving international society. First, I argue that one particular manifestation of self-determination, that of national self-determination, is both a solution to the enduring problem of territorial legitimation in international relations as well as the source of subsequent challenges to ter...