Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) research encompasses use cases ranging from social innovation to banking, and technical developments ranging from cryptography to semantics of legal text. Research in both academia and industry is highly interdisciplina...

This is the fourth number of a project which started in 2011 when the idea of publishing the lectures delivered by guest teachers in our Erasmus Week came up. This annual event is organised by the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) and takes place normally in the b...

İSNAD, sosyal ve beşeri bilimler alanında hazırlanan çalışmalarda kullanılmak üzere Türkiye merkezli olarak geliştirilen akademik yazım ve kaynak gösterme sistemidir. “Kaynak gösterme”, bilginin bilimselliğinin bir gereği olduğu kadar fikrî mülkiyet ve telif haklarına s...

Introduction: In November 2013, a 4-year research project on integrated care in Flanders (Belgium) was launched: “Care Organisation: a Re-Thinking EXpedition in search for Sustainability” (CORTEXS). Expertise on management, organization sciences, social innovation, pati...

  Context: A Series of Unfolding Tragedies The categorization of disasters as natural or manmade does little for our understanding of the moral stakes of individuals, institutions, and collectives in disasters. There is a greater possibility of understanding the complex...

Engineering an Islamic future Speculations on Islamic financial alternatives BILL MAURER Bill Maurer is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of California. He specialises in the anthropology of law, globalization, international money and fin...

<jats:p>&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; Complex systems are an invention of the universe. It is not at all clear that science has an a priori primacy claim to the study of complex systems. (Galanter 5) Introduction In popular dialogues, describing a system as “complex” is often th...

The Workshop on Global University System & E-Learning was held on the 19th of October, 2006 at TOBB Economics & Technology University. The workshop attracted around 40 people from the Ministry of Education, Turkish Satellite Corporation (TURKSAT), Anadolu University, an...

Introduction Despite high levels of HIV transmission in prisons and the southern Africa region's disproportionate share of the global HIV burden, South Africa and Lesotho are the only two countries in the region in which condoms are, in policy at least, made accessible ...

Introduction: Traditional anterior and posterior approaches to thoracolumbar region are related with significant neurological morbidity and long term complications related to sagittal alignment, deformity and bone healing. The advent of minimally invasive approaches has...