Small businesses are recognized worldwide as a catalyst of socio-economic development. Like all developed and developing countries, due to the economic importance SMEs, federal government Nigeria is policies strategies diversify its economy from total dependence on oil. Part development diversification effort by develop entrepreneurship small businesses. The most crucial aspect SMEs in their co...

Many eye care programmes are supported by donors and once this funding stops, they can collapse. In this article, I will explain how some programmes and institutions have been able to keep going despite losing their donor funding. I have had the opportunity to work with government, church-run and privately owned institutions in Ghana, Zambia, Kenya and Rwanda, and will share with you what we ha...

The study assessed the opinions of the Pakistani library experts in terms of: organization for digitization work (execution of digitization work & staffing patterns); funding patterns; and access patterns for digitization projects. The study opted qualitative research design and indepth interviews were conducted to collect the data from purposely selected library experts from different parts of...

I n April of this year, Germany's minister of justice Brigitte Zypries proposed that as part of a reform of Germany's federal system, science funding in Germany should be streamlined. Currently, the Länder (states) take principal responsibility for higher education institutions, whereas higher education infrastructure, non-university research institutions, and Germany's major research funding o...

OBJECTIVES Norovirus infections pose great economic and disease burden to health systems around the world. This study quantifies the investments in norovirus research awarded to UK institutions over a 14-year time period. DESIGN A systematic analysis of public and philanthropic infectious disease research investments awarded to UK institutions between 1997 and 2010. PARTICIPANTS None SETT...

This paper examines the corporate funding flows of Irish credit institutions over the period 2009 to end-2010. The analysis examines the daily net movement across the consolidated corporate and retail deposit books of the domestic Irish banking sector and models these flows as a function of bank specific measures of risk, sovereign influences and general macro-financial conditions. The internat...

Youth in the juvenile correctional system are a high-risk population who, in many cases, have unmet physical, developmental, and mental health needs. Multiple studies have found that some of these health issues occur at higher rates than in the general adolescent population. Although some youth in the juvenile justice system have interfaced with health care providers in their community on a reg...

OBJECTIVES Fungal infections cause significant global morbidity and mortality. We have previously described the UK investments in global infectious disease research, and here our objective is to describe the investments awarded to UK institutions for mycology research and outline potential funding gaps in the UK portfolio. DESIGN Systematic analysis. SETTING UK institutions carrying out inf...