1 Abstract The donors of human genetic resources deserve benefits in return for their contribution to scientific research. In the context of developing countries this claim holds as a matter of justice. But how can this demand be realised and implemented? This chapter looks at the role of ethics review as a possible benefit sharing mechanism. In particular the promising role of research ethics ...

This paper seeks to explain the difference across countries of impact national growth on income poor. Traditionally, studies attempting such differences investigate only some additional variables level Here, we introduce interaction terms change in elasticity poor income. We focus role formal and informal institutions religions; which have rarely been considered this context. The results show t...

We present a discriminatory learning framework for the problem of assigning globally optimal values to a set of variables with complex and expressive dependencies among them. The problem is modeled as an integer linear program (ILP) where the cost values associated with the variables are represented and trained as linear classifiers. The framework unifies and extends several existing discrimina...

Commercial computer games have great potential as learning tools as many require complex problem solving, theory testing, collaboration, and evaluation, all components of experiential learning (Gee 2003). Indeed, Schrader, Zheng, and Young (2006) argue that there are many benefits to be derived from the pedagogical use of commercial computer games, particularly massively multiplayer online game...

We present an approach to support Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games using a centralized distributed architecture by splitting the large virtual world into smaller areas. Our approach takes significant advantage of the locality of interest such games exhibit to reduce the bandwidth requirements for both game servers and clients. We also propose a solution to the hard problem of int...