The recent negative media reports on the status of participants in clinical trials in India, together with the concerns expressed by the regulatory bodies, have raised questions regarding India's credibility in the conduct of clinical research. Even though the regulations require the registration of trials with the Clinical Trial Registry-India and despite the recently mandated registration of ...

This paper compares the function of public vs. private institutions and studies conditions that influence their effectiveness. We use the population of commercial banks in Manhattan from 1840 to 1980 and investigate the impact of banks‟ participation in the New York Clearing House Association, an industry-level cooperative arrangement, and the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the governmental reg...

Environmental policy-making is the art of taking right decisions based on insufficient knowledge of the underlying issues. To help decision-makers cope with this uncertainty, transnational networks of experts have been offering numerous assessments of the state of knowledge, often advertised as consensus of “international science”. These networks—such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...

There are a number of gaps in reviews relating Ostrom’s design principles (DPs) to common-pool resource (CPR) institutions. These include the geographical distribution of CPRs, the performance of young CPRs relative to the DPs, and the relationship between robustness and success in adherence to the DPs. to This research aims to: (i) explicitly analyze the geographical distribution of the case s...

Modern technology is increasingly complex and demands an ever-widening range of knowledge and skills. No single country will possess all the knowledge and skills required for addressing global issues such as climate change. Technology collaboration between leading countries is important to promptly and efficiently address the problem. Previous studies have shown that a high level of collaborati...

The recent negative media reports on the status of participants in clinical trials in India, together with the concerns expressed by the regulatory bodies, have raised questions regarding India’s credibility in the conduct of clinical research. Even though the regulations require the registration of trials with the Clinical Trial Registry – India and despite the recently mandated registration o...

A high sense of risk is characteristic of modern societies. During recent decades, increasing risk awareness has caused consumers to become more prudent. Consumer policy has become more cautious and governmental security and regulatory institutions function on behalf of citizens. Politically aware non-governmental organisations are ready to take up new risk issues and a vigilant media is monito...

This paper is designed as a further building block to arrive at a theory of networking among international governmental organizations. It is inspired by the puzzle that theoryoriented IR research has so far neglected rivalry as a constitutive pattern of relations among international organizations although rich empirical case studies of networking among the Euro-Atlantic security institutions po...

The paper reports on a study of the ways in which Canadian digital library collections make use of knowledge organization systems to support users’ information search behaviour. The study identified 33 digital collections which have employed some type of knowledge organization system in their search interfaces. Résumé : Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude sur la manière dont les syst...