Biobanks represent an invaluable research tool and, as a result of their intrinsic and extrinsic nature, may be looked upon as archives or repositories largely made up of libraries, or collections of content where the content is the biological material derived from different ind…
Research study presenting an economic theory to describe the behaviour of private sector and public sector bureaucracys - gives economic analysis of competition; covers entrepreneurship, monopolys, and management attitudes; draws parallels between government and business regardi…
How resources are being used to fund the community response to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is of considerable interest to the donor community and governments. In the past decade, international funding for the HIV and AIDS res…
Ghana has committed politically, legislatively, and fiscally to providing universal health insurance coverage for its population with the intent of reducing financial barriers to utilization of health care.. However, under current cost and enrollment projections the system will …
"The collapse of China is unthinkable. The consequences for its people - and for the people of the world - could be catastrophic. Three times larger than the United States, China has an economy that many predict will blossom into the world biggest by 2010. The county may be Amer…
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This book synthesizes contemporary experiences with changing public and private sector roles in funding and executing agricultural research, with emphasis on developing countries. The book consists of 15 chapters organized into four distinct parts. Part I provides a brief overvi…
This book is concerned with the economic consequences of the dramatic current and prospective demographic changes that are occurring in Western industrialized countries. There are chapters on the dependency burden aspects of Social Security programs and intergenerational redistr…
Examines R and D investment in the light of increased international competition in high-technology sectors and reviews the wider implications of research and technology in areas such as education, health, and quality of life.
'Es ist Zeit, sich vom Kapitalismus abzuwenden', sagt Sahra Wagenknecht. Denn der Kapitalismus ist längst nicht mehr so innovativ, wie er sich gibt. Bei der Lösung der großen Zukunftsfragen - von einer klimaverträglichen Energiewende bis zu nachhaltiger Kreislaufproduktion - kom…
"Discussing the history of medicine and its social relations across the globe from the early modern period to 2000, this title examines how modernisation of healthcare resulted in a range of social arrangements in public and private"--Provided by publisher.
"Is it true that there is no alternative to the neo-liberal ideology of free trade, deregulation of markets, and government abandonment of social programmes? Must we accept, in the name of globalisation, the relentless pressure to reduce wages and cut social spending? Can poor c…
