Based on recent field survey data collected in three African countries, this study examines interfirm and inter-organizational collaboration in African industry. Three sets of interactions were analyzed namely: firm-firm linkages, including user-supplier and subcontracting relationships; firm-university linkages; and firm-industrial association linkages. Employing univariate and multivariate an...

Through a field survey on the religious beliefs among villagers of the Jingpo Nationality in Dengga Village, Nongdao Town, Ruili in Yunnan, the author of this article believes under the times background of constructing a harmonious contemporary society, as a religious belief and religious culture, Christianity has to be positively led to suit with the socialism society and play a positive role ...

The authors reported the results of field survey and family follow-up on acatalasemia and hypocatalasemia during the year of 1965. No hypocatalasemic case was seen in the tests of 2,897 individuals at two places of Japan Proper. And a hypocatalasemic boy was found out among 10,083 children of Miyako Is., Ryukyu. In 1965, ten acatalasemias of six families at various parts in the world were added...

This commentary aims to focus, among the “multiple roles of ata generated in ethnopharmacological field studies” (Heinrich t al., 2009, p. 1), on the systematic collection of clinical data. ven if this issue may somewhat resemble what has long been aid (Martin, 1996), recent experiences with clinical assessment f the effectiveness of medicinal plants may shed some new light. his commentary is a...

Rural aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms with extensive and semi-intensive husbandry practised by small-scale rural households for their consumption and income. From a field survey in Southeast Vietnam, using enterprise budget analysis and nonparametric tests with indices of change, adoption, and agreement, this study justifies that rural aquaculture is a good option for rural deve...

In the framework of a new program on housing and health, the World Health Organization has undertaken a field survey on panel block housing estates in Eastern Germany, Lithuania and Slovakia aiming at a preliminary assessment of housing conditions in Eastern European countries and their potential health consequences. It also aimed to highlight housing and health problems of Eastern European tra...