Nanomedicine research raises ethical concerns beyond those covered by the Common Rule. Investigators and research institutions should comply with environmental and occupational health laws protect research staff and the environment. Though the IRB should concentrate on risks to human research participants, it should also consider risks to identifiable third parties. Investigators should also ad...

The proliferation of government involvement in e-initiatives has gained significant recognition across the globe. Evidence from previous studies suggests that e-government programs are beneficial to participating countries. Specifically, researchers have suggested that e-government programs enhance the delivery of cost effective service to stakeholders of governmental institutions. Based on est...

We analyze the Austrian social insurance system, focusing on the labor market as well as the pension system, on behalf of governmental institutions and other official stake holders. Visualizations play an increasingly important role. We present two examples from current projects – a very simply static one and a more complex interactive one – that both demonstrate the benefits of visualizations ...

Rights-based approaches (RBAs) to health encompass an exciting range of ways that the United Nations, governments, and non-governmental organizations incorporate human rights into public health efforts. By reviewing the academic literature and discrepant articulations of human rights and RBAs by key institutions, the authors identify common rights principles relevant to health and discuss a fra...

Standards are, generally speaking, a sensible way of simplifying a number of issues; this is also true for ICT professional competences, the standardization of which could bring huge benefits to all stakeholders, including education & training providers, employers, candidates and agencies for employment, freelance professionals, ICT associations, governmental and statistical institutions, and f...

Patient safety related to orthopaedic implants, particularly joint arthroplasty, is a major concern due to the increasing elderly population and the wide variety of available devices. The safe use of medical devices, such as orthopaedic implants, is regulated by institutions or governmental agencies in many countries. Nevertheless, adverse incidents associated with the implantation of orthopaed...

As it is already known, in the last 10–15 years the Black Sea has attracted special attention from the international community represented by members of governments, parliaments, academic institutions and non-governmental organizations in numerous countries and first of all in the riparian ones, all of them animated by the wish to save this sea from the ecological collapse revealed both by the ...

Standards are, generally speaking, a sensible way of simplifying a number of issues; this is also true for ICT professional competences, the standardization of which could bring huge benefits to all stakeholders, including education & training providers, employers, candidates and agencies for employment, freelance professionals, ICT associations, governmental and statistical institutions, and f...

Very few options for men to initiate fertility control are currently available. Due to the potential public health impact of a novel method of contraception for men in the developed and developing world, a number of organizations are conducting or supporting studies which focus on the male contraceptive aspect of reproductive health. These include bilateral and multilateral donors, national gov...