Although some pharmaceutical company efforts to develop and distribute drugs in developing countries have been successful, many fall short of meeting needs in resource-poor nations. In the context of public-private partnerships, we discuss the concept of a nonprofit pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and distributing drugs for diseases endemic in developing countries. Using the expe...

On June 16, 2022, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS)-Vancouver hosted a Digital Roundtable titled Jurisdiction Security, conducted by Dr. Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot, Professor of Sociology Director Centre Military, Strategic (CMSS) at University Calgary. The presentation was followed question-and-answer period with questions from audience CASIS-Vancouver execut...

in the wake of the global financial crisis. Recent indignation over seemingly exorbitant CEO compensation in the face of poor company performance have given rise to the question: Does CEO pay accurately reflect CEO ability? If so, does the CEO make a difference to company performance? Practitioners intuitively know the importance of top CEOs, however does academic research concur? Despite its e...

The insurance industry is built on risk classification, grouping insureds into homogeneous classes. Through actions such as underwriting, pricing, and so forth, it differentiates, or discriminates, among insureds. Actuaries have responsibility for pricing transfers are intimately involved in other aspects of company a keen interest whether not discrimination appropriate from both societal viewp...

A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 67,031 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) between 1 January to 31 March 2016 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population for each state or territory is presented in Table 3. Table 1: Reporting of notifiable diseases by jurisdic...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of cross-company and within-company cost estimation model for Web projects. The study analysis method we used was a forward, stepwise regression of web project development effort with independent variables that were used for on-line web application price quotations. Model cross-validation used two approaches: one-fold cross validation and a ...