— International advocacy NGOs (IANGOs) are increasingly important actors in the international arena. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the cases of ten IANGOs that operate in diverse advocacy contexts, including development, environment, governance, human rights, and constituent support. It examines the patterns of governance, organizational architecture, and advocacy effectiveness ...

The study will be principally concerned with thinking strategically and practicing strategic management and its impact on the performance particularly on NGOs in Gaza Strip. Many writers (Bowman and Asch, 1987; Byars, 1991; Rowe et al, 1994; Pitts and lei, 1996; Thompson and Strickland,1999; Pearce and Robinson, 2000; Joyce and woods, 2001; Hunger and Wheelen, 2001; Hitt et al, 2001; Analoui an...

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in humanitarian relief provide supplies and services to people in need. Transportation and logistics are big parts of NGO operations, as agencies transport and distribute supplies to and within the affected regions. Improving efficiency of their logistics systems has potential to significantly decrease agencies’ operational costs and expand their se...

Self-Organising Network (SON) functions have been introduced in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced standards by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as an excellent solution that promises enormous improvements in the network performance. However, the most challenging issue in implementing SON functions in reality is the identification of the best possible interactions amo...

In aspect-based sentiment analysis, most existing methods focus on either identifying aspect/opinion terms or categorizing pre-extracted aspect terms. Each task by itself only provides partial information to end users. To generate more detailed and structured opinion analysis, we study a finer-grained problem, which we call category-specific aspect and opinion terms extraction. This problem inv...

The continued decline in medical trainees entering the workforce as clinician-scientists has elevated the need to engage medical students in research. While past studies have shown early exposure to generate interest among medical students for research and academic careers, financial constraints have limited the number of such formal research training programs. In light of recent government bud...

Abstract Network slicing will permit offering to vertical customers tailored end-to-end logical networks in an on-demand fashion, on top of a common telecom infrastructure, achieving Slices-as-a-Service (SlaaS) business model. This is possible due the progressive introduction network softwarization techniques, such as programmability and virtualization, into existing operational networks, enabl...

Emergency communication networks provide the basis for preparing for, and responding to, manmade and natural disasters. With the increasing importance of information security, emergency network operators such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local and national governmental agencies, and traditional network operators must deal with the possibility of sabotage and hacking of such network...

Bio-absorbent palm fiber was applied for removal of cationic violet methyl dye from water solution. For this purpose, a solid phase extraction method combined with the artificial neural network (ANN) was used for preconcentration and determination of removal level of violet methyl dye. This method is influenced by factors such as pH, the contact time, the rotation speed, and the adsorbent dosag...

Abstract Over the last three decades, Japanese NGOs have become increasingly engaged in delivery of foreign aid, and humanitarian responses to national emergencies. Despite these attainments, a lack recognition for NGO sector among domestic audience remains noticeable. The article proposes that, despite increasing professionalization professionalism sector, activities practitioners are frequent...