INTRODUCTION The need to promote a 'world community of scientifically and technologically literate citizens' was recognized as urgent by the World Conference on Education for All held in Jomtien in 1990. Project 2000+, initiated to promote and guide the measures needed to give effect to this Jomtien declaration, seeks to: • identify ways of promoting the development of scientific and technologi...

Social Coding Sites (SCSs) are social media services for sharing software development projects on the Web, and many open source projects are currently being developed on SCSs. One of the characteristics of SCSs is that they provide a platform on social networks that encourages collaboration between developers with the same interests and purpose. For example, external developers can easily repor...

The rapid development of the Internet and Internet of things accelerates the emergence of the hyper world. It has become a pressing issue to realize the organic amalgamation and harmonious symbiosis among human, computers and things in the hyper world, which consists of the social world, physical world and information world (cyber world). In this paper, the noN. Zhong Department of Life Science...

In the modern Big Data analysis, testing multiple hypotheses simultaneously has been an important tool in analyzing data arising from scientific studies, such as genetics, astronomy, social sciences and many others. The hypotheses can often be grouped together according to the nature of the scientific investigations. For instance, genes can be grouped according to gene pathways; the nearby pixe...

The need for new pharmaceutical tools to prevent and treat neglected diseases is widely accepted [1]. The creation of a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, more effective diagnostics for tuberculosis (TB), and better treatments for leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness would greatly improve health in the developing world in line with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. However, funders wishing to ...

The paper outlines a forward-looking role of social protection against the background of increasing concerns about risk and vulnerability, exemplified by the recent East Asian crisis, the concerns of the World Development Report (WDR) 2000, the need for a better understanding of poverty dynamics, and the opportunity and risks created by globalization. These considerations and the need for a mor...

At a global summit held in the year 2000, world leaders committed themselves to strive for the attainment by 2015 of a set of 8 far-reaching developmental mileposts known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Unlike previous global agreements (for example, the Alma Ata 'Health for All by the Year 2000' declaration), the MDGs were specifically tied to numerical benchmarks consisting of 21 ...

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