Globally, one of the major trends is the development of translational medicine. The traditional hospital structure could not meet the demands of translational medicine development any longer and to explore a novel hospital structure is imperative. Following the times, China proposed and implemented a development strategy for a first-class modern research-oriented hospital. To establish a resear...

In the cases of corporate crime, US prosecutors can lodge charges against the corporation, its managers, or both. However, the emergence of systemically important firms, most notably in the financial sector, constrains prosecutors. This paper develops a new model of corporate criminal liability and shows how the Too Big To Jail problem reduces the deterrence effect of a crime control policy rel...

Indigenous juveniles (those aged 10 to 16 years in Queensland and 10 to 17 years in all other jurisdictions) are over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system, and their over-representation becomes more pronounced at the most severe end of the system (ie in detention). Recent figures show that Indigenous juveniles are 24 times as likely to be detained in a juvenile correctional ...

Social roles structure social institutions like organizations in MultiAgent Systems (MAS). In this paper we describe how to introduce the notion of social role in programming languages. To avoid the commitment to a particular agent model, architecture or language, we decided to extend Java, the most prominent object oriented programming language, by adding social roles. The obtained language al...

Grid computing allows the usage of distributed resources possibly belonging to different institutions in a transparent way. This paper presents InteGrade, an object-oriented Grid tool that focuses on leveraging the idle computing power of shared desktop machines. Moreover, it currently allows the execution of sequential, parametric, and BSP parallel applications.

Modern science calls for innovative practices to facilitate research collaborations spanning institutions, disciplines, and countries. Paradigms such as cloud computing and social computing represent a new opportunity for individuals with scant resources, to participate in science. The D4Science.org Hybrid Data Infrastructure combines these two paradigms with Virtual Research Environments in or...

The Manuscriptorium Digital Library is seamless aggregator of data from ca. 100 memory institutions in Europe. It offers tools for data contributors as well as for user-oriented personalization. The metadata from Manuscriptorium are used by many other services, such as The European Library, EUROPEANA, or SUMMON and EBSCO resource discovery services.

anaging for Development Results (MfDR) is multidimensional, relating back to concepts about how to make international development more effective and results-oriented and to practical performance management tools. MfDR builds on several years of work by public sector institutions and development agencies, and reflects an emerging global consensus on the importance of performance measurement in i...

The paucity of research on PsyD programs has led to unsubstantiated generalizations and uniformity myths about practitioner training. The authors collected information on the admission rates, financial assistance, theoretical orientations, and selected characteristics of American Psychological Association (APA)–accredited PsyD programs in clinical psychology (89% response rate). Systematic comp...

In recent years, „Living labs‟ have played an increasingly prevalent role in design processes targeted at user-oriented innovation. This article presents the organisational set-up and discusses the development of two new living lab concepts from the HandiVision project, hosted by two public institutions that both work with people with physical or cognitive impairments. Based on Verna Allee‟s th...