Exponential Growth and New Agendas – a Comprehensive Review of the Arctic Conference Sphere by Beate Steinveg

“…This article provides an historical mapping of the Arctic conference sphere, and demonstrates how the establishment of Arctic conferences has both paralleled central events in Arctic affairs and can be linked to important international developments. Firstly, there is a notable peak conforming with the “second state change” in 2005, brought about by developments opening the Arctic to global concerns: the impacts of climate change and the spread of the socio-economic effects from globalization to the Arctic. …”
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COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING APPROACH ON SUBSCRIBERS’ DATA OF TELECOM OPERATOR by А. Zhumekenov

“…In this paper, we present an internally developed framework that combines the strengths of CEP and business process implementations which allows us to react to the needs of today’s fast-changing environment and requirements. …”
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Structuring of management control systems by resident organizations in technological parks by Márcia Athayde Moreira, Everaldo Marcelo Souza da Costa, Carlos Augusto Santana de Freitas

“…As an academic contribution, we believe that understanding management factors that are best developed and those that need to be developed to achieve satisfactory levels of management control systems is critical for definition of internal development policies of management processes, thus, moving forward for the social contribution of the research, the theoretical improvement favors entrepreneurs and their ventures, with profits for ecosystem of technological parks and for general society.…”
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Revised criteria system for a national assessment of threatened habitats in Germany by Stefanie Heinze, Peter Finck, Ulrike Raths, Uwe Riecken, Axel Ssymank

“…In doing so, an attempt was made to find a compromise between the consideration of international developments that had taken place and existing national requirements. …”
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Fatigue and weakness hinder patient social reintegration after liver transplantation by So Hyun Kang, YoungRok Choi, Ho-Seong Han, Yoo-Seok Yoon, Jai Young Cho, Sungho Kim, Kil Hwan Kim, In Gun Hyun, Ahmed Shehta

“…Methods Fifty patients above age 18 who underwent either living or deceased donor LT at a single center from March 2009 to July 2016 were interviewed during their visit to the outpatient clinic. The internally developed questionnaire consisted of 10 items. …”
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Objective Аssessment Indicies of Public Administration Efficiency by G. A. Bortshevsky

“…The indicators choice is justified which characterizes the public administration efficiency from its internal development point of view and its final social and economic effect from its functioning. …”
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A Network Governance Model with Emphasis on Development of Open Innovation Processes at Security Research Institutions by Mohammadmehdi Ghuchani Khorasani, Davood Hosseinpour, Ibrahim Mahmudzaeh, Seyed Mahdi Alvani, Seyed Abolhasan Firoozabadi

“…Opening boundaries of organization, using open innovation paradigm for internal development and expansion of market to enjoy external innovations are the most significant consequences of this interaction. …”
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Breaking Out of the Local: International dimensions of science shops by Caspar DeBok, Norbert Steinhaus

“…In this article international developments of the Science Shop Network, like the project TRAMS, and Science Shop backgrounds will be linked with past and new EU policies like the EU 7th Framework Programme for Research. …”
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Transboundary aquifers along the Canada–USA border: Science, policy and social issues by Alfonso Rivera

“…Study focus: Since 2005, Canada has followed international developments in transboundary groundwater issues in cooperation with its southern neighbor the United States (USA) within the Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management Initiative (ISARM) of UNESCO. …”
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Politiques de développement durable en Guyane : souveraineté sur les ressources forestières by Catherine Aubertin, Suzanne Pons

“…It also implements a policy of energy independence from biomass, linking the energy issue with forestry, agricultural settlements and land use planningOur research topics focus on dissemination of internationally developed environmental standards and their adaptation to local conditions. …”
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Frequency and Severity of Three Diabetic Foot Ulcer Types Utilizing Ten Points Scoring Scale- A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital of Islamabad by Ahmad Farhan, Ali Sufyan, Muhammad Awais Tahir, Arslan Ahmed, Muhammad Adil Farooq

“…The foot ulcers were classified as neuropathic, ischemic ulcer, or neuroischemic, and the severity/degree of the ulcer was determined using an internally developed ten points scoring system. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 22.0. …”
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Pension reform and exacerbating issues of the legitimacy of the government by Ilyin Vladimir A., Morev Mikhail V.

“…In the first months of the new political season, which began after the March 2018 Presidential Election, the Government adopted and is currently discussing measures that received a very negative response from Russian society and many experts, especially against the background of election campaign promises and long-term goals of internal development that Vladimir Putin set out in his Address to the Federal Assembly on March 1, 2018. …”
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Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology by Ena Voûte, Pieter Jan Stappers, Elisa Giaccardi, Sylvia Mooij, Annemiek van Boeijen

“…In the 50 years the Delft program changed due to: (1) changes in societal demand (from products, via services, to the systemic level of societal challenges), (2) the maturing of design as an academic discipline between science and engineering, and (3) international developments of the educational system (e.g., the Bologna agreement). …”
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Great expectations: The Brexit moment in EU security and defence and the return of the capabilities–expectations gap by Benjamin Martill, Monika Sus

“…Our point of departure is the observation that the expectations being placed on the EU’s foreign and security capabilities in recent years have been steadily increasing, in response to a number of external and internal developments, including the Arab Spring, the Ukraine crisis and America’s ‘pivot’ to Asia, as well as the Brexit vote. …”
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Evolution of Urban Spatial Patterns in a Potential Growth City in the Middle Yangtze Urban Agglomeration by Wu Qingqing, Zhong Yexi, Wu Siyu, Mao Weisheng

“…However, Wuhan metropolitan area has an obvious centric structure; and the growth pole of Poyang Lake urban agglomeration is not prominent, the interactive development of peripheral cities of the Changzhutan urban agglomeration is insufficient, and the internal development of the urban agglomeration is uncoordinated. …”
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Transcriptome provides insights into bovine mammary regulatory mechanisms during the lactation cycle by Xuyang Song, Meng Zhao, Qiaoqiao Cao, Shengxuan Wang, Ranran Li, Xuan Zhang, Letian Zhang, Kerong Shi

“…An integrated analysis of differential gene expression indicated that internal development regularities underlying the shape of the milk production curve. …”
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New Realities of Restructuring of Russian Companies by I. R. Zhabbarov

“…Restructuring of companies began to take place in the form of internal development, which is not provided for by the Law on Joint-Stock Companies. …”
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A Jurisprudential and Legal Analysis of Combating against Female Trafficking with a Glance at the Relevant International Documents by Saiyd Atarzadih

“…Following some international developments, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also referred to as the Trafficking Protocol or UN TIP Protocol) was rarified by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. …”
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Stem cell tourism in South Africa: A legal update by Melodie Slabbert, Michael Pepper, Safia Mahomed

“…As a result of weak legislative enforcement in this area, South Africa has unfortunately become an attractive destination for fraudulent stem cell operators. The purpose of this article is provide an update on the South African legal position relating to stem cell therapy by evaluating the effectiveness of the Medicines and Related Substances Act and other relevant legislative provisions in regulating cell-based therapies, drawing strongly on recent international developments and case law in this field. The article will make specific recommendations aimed at improving the existing position.Â…”
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APPLICATION OF MICROENCAPSULATED NATURAL OILS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONALIZED SUSTAINABLE CLOTHING by PINHEIRO Cláudia, BELINO Nuno, PAUL Roshan

“…Those fibres were embedded with internally developed microcapsules containing a natural repellent agent – schinus molle – added during the extrusion process. …”
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