A globalised food trade, with a huge increase of the exchanged volume, extensive production and complex supply chains are contributing towards an increased number of microbiological food safety outbreaks. All of these factors are putting pressure on the stakeholders, either public or private, in terms of rule and control. In fact, this scenario could force manufacturers to be lenient towards fo...

Dedication To Yuning and Kayla, for always supporting my endeavors. v Acknowledgements First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor and dissertation chairman, Andrew B. Whinston who played an indispensable role in my intellectual development. I am truly grateful for his thoughtful insights into research as well as the invaluable constant support along the difficult trail of finishing my...

The role of environmental/economic development issues in the Polish motorway and roads programme shows several similarities with the UK, albeit starting off much later. The paper reviews the development of government policy on these issues in relation to the evolving politics of Poland since 1989. The Socialist (reformed Communist) governments are less interested in environmental issues and arg...

Methodological dualism in linguistics occurs when its theories are subjected to standards that are inappropriate for them qua scientifi c theories. Despite much opposition, methodological dualism abounds in contemporary thinking. In this paper, I treat linguistics as a scientifi c activity and explore some instances of dualism. By extracting some ubiquitous aspects of scientifi c methodology fr...

BACKGROUND Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world's largest health professional workforce and a critical resource for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Nonetheless, little is known about nurses' engagement with dual practice. METHODS We c...

purpose:  the paper aims to focus on south africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. it attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the national dev...