Nepal’s political system is in rapid transition following the end of the Maoist People’s War and overthrow of the King in 2006, and the subsequent formation of a Federal Democratic Republic in 2007. A radical-left coalition, led by a Maoist party in 2008, won an electoral majority (surpassing the two biggest parties that ruled the country in the post 1990 period). The conflict period animated t...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to define a scalable architecture to support the National Health Information Network (NHIN). This architecture must concurrently support a wide range of public health, research, and clinical care activities. STUDY DESIGN The architecture fulfils five desiderata: (1) adopt a distributed approach to data storage to protect privacy, (2) enable strong institutional aut...

Photography and electronic media are indispensable tools for dental education and clinical practice. Although previous research has focused on privacy issues and general strategies to protect patient privacy when sharing clinical photographs for educational purposes, there are no published recommendations for developing a functional, privacy-compliant institutional framework for the capture, st...

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchannan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential for decentralization to aggravate the common pool problem. In addition to the degree of expenditure decentralization, we consider the importanc...

Compact city development has, over the last 20 years or so, emerged as the preferred response to the goal of sustainable development. As such, it is pertinent to examine planning practices to see whether the traditional economic bias in planning is now balanced by aims and practices in support of environmental and social sustainability. In this light the social, environmental, and economic goal...

This article argues that the relatively new field of personnel economics (PE) holds strong potential as a tool for studying public sector workforces. This subfield of labor economics is based on a strong foundation of microeconomics, which provides a robust theoretical foundation for studying workforce and organizational design issues. PE has evolved on this foundation to a strong practical emp...

It is a matter of great pleasure for me to extend, on behalf of the ICAR and on my personal behalf, a warm welcome to all, especially to our very distinguished delegates who have traveled from various parts of the world to participate in the Conference. I am glad to share with you that the Conference is being held at a time when our Central Institute on Buffalo Research has completed 25 years o...

In 2010, when hope emerged that the new conservative government would improve governance of LEADER Programme, Naturama Alliance, a co-operative network seven Hungarian LAGs, issued Declaration summarised procedural issues to be addressed by revision[1]. After introducing alliance, first chapter was entitled “Decentralisation and Autonomy”, indicating direction desired shift towards more autonom...

Autonomy is the backbone of higher education in India. It encourages colleges to innovate practices and achievement excellence. Institutional autonomy denotes power capabilities educational institutes set their policies for teaching learning, research, admission procedure, fee structure, evaluation implementation. The college should practice at grassroots level address need hour. An attempt has...