Academic Articles & Research Papers

Promoting Inclusion and Mitigating Digital Divide Impacts in International Development Research Teams: The PIRL Project.

Alcohol's harms to others in Wales, United Kingdom: Nature, magnitude and associations with mental well-being

Aim: To explore the nature and magnitude of alcohol's harms to others (AHTOs), and associations with mental well-being. Methods: Cross-sectional survey implemented amongst 891 randomly selected Welsh residents (aged 18+ years), via computer...

Trust, Morality and International Business

Abstract: This paper argues that trust is one of the crucial bases for an international business morality. To defend this claim, it identifies three prominent senses of trust in the current literature and defends one of them, viz., what I t...

Beyond 2030: structures for achieving sustainable development

With 2030 quickly approaching and hence the end of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) timeline, it is necessary to start the conversation as to what the post-2030 international development goals, that will take over from the SDGs, will ...

Health Technologies and Women of the Third World

The need to review the impact of international health programs and technologies on women has been voiced increasingly in the field of international health. This chapter discusses issues related both to technologies for women’s health and to...

[Medical informatics].

Medical informatics is the discipline concerned with information and information streams in health care. The development of information technology has been intensified in recent years and is now influencing the international development wit...

Handbook of Medical Informatics

Data Processing.- Database Management.- Telecommunication, Networking, and Integration.- Coding and Classification.- The Patient Record.- Biosignal Analysis.- Medical Imaging.- Image Processing and Analysis.- Primary Care.- Clinical Departm...

Ethnic identity (geo)politics as a zero-sum game. Towards an assessment of the long-term effects of the Ohrid framework agreement

Since 2001 the inter-ethnic relations between the two largest ethno-national communities in the Republic of Macedonia have been regulated by the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA). Describing it as an attempt at Complex Power Sharing, the ar...

Influence of Sector, Budget Size and Financing on Time and Cost Management of Czech International Development Projects

Research background: This article focuses on the official Czech international development (ID) aid and the factors affecting the project success in terms of cost and time variance from the plan. As per research by Ahsan and Gunawan (2010), ...

Globalization and International Development Finance: a Troubled Path?

Since the establishment of the Bretton Woods institutional framework in 1944, the World Bank played the lion’s share in development finance globally. Although World Bank initially operated in terms of inter-governmental cooperation in the f...

IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: 5G and Beyond Mobile Wireless Communications Enabling Intelligent Mobility

Increasing urbanization is one major trend that shapes tomorrow’s society; by 2050, more than 85% of the developed world’s population will live in a comparatively small number of ever-growing cities. Within such cities ...