Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health scholars have paid little heed to this, despite the large budgets involved in this area. While the European Commission has attempted to define the ‘EU role in Global Health’ in 2010, member states are active in the domain of global health ...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to consider an international facility location problem under uncertainty and present an integrated model for strategic and operational planning. The paper offers two methodologies for the location selection decision. First the extended VIKOR method for decision making problem with interval numbers is presented as a methodology for strategic evaluation of po...

The orientation of a large grating can be decoded from V1 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, even at low resolution (3-mm isotropic voxels). This finding has suggested that columnar-level neuronal information might be accessible to fMRI at 3T. However, orientation decodability might alternatively arise from global orientation-preference maps. Such global maps across V1 could res...

fasting and diabetes has been on my radar from a local perspective for years. as a dietitian many of my patients chose to fast with the goal to promote better health. most recently, my perspective on fasting became global as working with the managing diabetes during ramadan initiatives.in april 2016, international diabetes federation (idf) and the diabetes and ramadan (dar) international allian...

Viet Nam has been actively participating in the regional and global integration. It created favorable conditions for Vietnamese workers to work everywhere. However, are facing certain limitations including foreign language proficiency, skills knowledge of cultures other countries, etc. In order have people easily find jobs international organizations firms, Government need give orientations sol...

the study considers mass media communication as intertwined with social norms, as assumed by the perspective of social representations. it explores the italian press communication by focusing on three pairs of men and women politicians with different political orientations and all serving as presidents of the houses of parliament in three legislatures. the article concentrates on five newspaper...

In this paper, using Mannheim, I identify Millennials (covering both Gen Y and Z) as a global generation that has spawned new generational style. provide brief overview of the historical conditions have shaped Millennials’ life experiences. nutshell, come age in world marked by an ongoing shift actorhood from macro structures to micro agents. argue formative experience impelled at least three m...

The paper aims to investigate influence of some important aspects of multinationals (MNCs), i.e., corporate strategies, structures and international policy orientations on subsidiaries HRM practices, specifically on recruitment and selection practices. Four European multinational subsidiaries operating in Bangladesh were selected for the study. In-depth case studies on those MNCs revealed that ...