In present China, bilingual teaching, as an education model, can meet an urgent demand for increasing interdisciplinary talents who have high levels of professional knowledge as well as competent foreign language abilities to deal with the ever-increasing global social, economic, scientific and technological exchanges, and international cooperation. Bilingual teaching is now developing fast in ...

Rev Panam Salud Publica/Pan Am J Public Health 8(1/2), 2000 A roundtable discussion on international cooperation in health reform in the Americas In April 2000 representatives from several international donor organizations conducted an electronic roundtable to look into their “crystal balls” and imagine a future for donor collaboration in health sector reform in the Americas. The participants w...

It’ll be essential to cooperate with foreigners during a rise in the percentage of the aged population in recent years, because of this unsustainable national medical emergency situation as well as problems of other industries in Japan. In November 2009, we made a contract for our sister hospitals between National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Medical Center and Khon Kaen Regional Hospital, Kh...

The Sub-Saharan part of the African continent is the area that has the highest disease burden in the world and is the only region of the planet where it is expected that the number of poor people will increase in the coming decades. The countries of this region, to different degrees, experience slow process of population aging but at the same time, it is the are where the elderly population gro...

In this paper, we begin to explore the evolution of curves of the projective plane according to a family of intrinsic equations generalizing a projective heat equationn 1]. This is motivated by previous work for the Euclidean 2, 3, 4] and the aane case 5, 6, 7, 8] as well as by applications in the perception of two-dimensional shapes. We establish the projective arclength evolution and the proj...

The paper analyzes formulations in the area of international health at the time of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, in 1978. It is set within the context of the broader debate on development and international cooperation throughout the 1970s. Three sets of concepts and prescriptive formulations were examined namely: the New International Economi...

The paper investigates the relationship between firms’ international cooperation strategies and export decision. It proposes a refinement of Melitz (2003) model of firm heterogeneity and trade according to which prospective exporters must engage in a cooperation agreement with a foreign partner in order to favour their market access and distribution activities overseas. The paper analyses the e...

Social software provides powerful tools for international cooperation and communication which are applied at low cost for development projects. The international application of these seemingly global systems brings great risks of misunderstandings between project partners. We show how problems can occur in the discussion structures of blogs and in the construction of social capital in social so...

In order to cooperate effectively with its peers, an agent must manipulate representations of the social structures in which it plays a part. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mathematical and computational aspects of this social reasoning process. We begin by defining an abstract representation of cooperation structures, wherein agents cooperate to achieve goals on each other’s b...