scholarly journals Maternal Abortifacient use for Clandestine Abortion

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana L. Hopson ◽  
Jennifer Ross
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Pregnancy Termination ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clinical Staff ◽  
Medical Examiner ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Future ◽  
At Home

Abortion is a highly debated topic. In the United States and other developed countries, the vast majority of abortions performed are done in a clinical setting or under the supervision of clinical staff. However, clandestine abortions still occur. Previously published reports have described clandestine abortions performed using crude and often dangerous methods. In the United States, published reports on the clandestine use of medications for abortions is rare. We report a series of cases in which maternal use of misoprostol and or a combination of misoprostol and mifepristone was used or suspected to have been used for the purpose of at-home pregnancy termination. These medications, purchased from Internet sites, were believed to have been shipped from countries outside of the United States. With ready accessibility to and increased prevalence of these sites on the Internet, it is likely that maternal abortifacient use will become more common in the future. This paper will provide guidance for the investigation and workup of these cases that come to the attention of the medical examiner or coroner.

scholarly journals Development and Application of Online Courseware for English Teaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Shansong Huang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Teaching Activities

Since the second decade of the 21st century, the rapid development of computer information technology promoted the internet use throughout society. We are now in an era in which life and learning are closely intertwined with the internet. In Western Europe, the United States, and other developed countries, teaching activities by online multimedia and offline technology have been long implemented. However, local online automatic generation software is inflicted with many issues, particularly, with the inability to meet the most student needs. Hence, we developed a new online courseware generation system to address this problem. After testing, the system functioned effectively, and the educational effect enhanced significantly.

scholarly journals How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Wood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Economic Position

This paper argues that the main cause of the deteriorating economic position of unskilled workers in the United States and other developed countries has been expansion of trade with developing countries. In the framework of a Heckscher-Ohlin model, it outlines the evidence in support of this view, responds to criticisms of this evidence, and challenges the evidence for the alternative view that the problems of unskilled workers are caused mainly by new technology. The paper concludes with a look at the future and at the implications for public policy.

The Growth of E-Commerce in Developing Countries

2013 ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Japhet E. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Market ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Purchase Behavior ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The growth of the Internet has opened up a vast arena, providing more opportunities for businesses, particularly small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to sell their products and services to a global audience than they would have been able to afford to reach using the traditional methods. SMEs are extremely important to many countries and their contribution to economy cannot be over emphasized. Several researchers have studied the contribution of the Internet and highlight the importance of convenience, satisfaction, quality, and consumer purchase behavior. In this study, it is argued that SMEs stand to benefit significantly from the opportunities and benefits that the Internet offers to businesses. Therefore, the use of the Internet is widely seen as critical for the competitiveness of SMEs in the emerging global market. The study is exploratory in nature and will be conducted in three stages. The findings presented in this paper, argues that SMEs in developing countries must learn from the experiences of developed countries, such as the United States and European countries, and use the Internet more frequently.

The Growth of E-Commerce in Developing Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Japhet E. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Market ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Purchase Behavior ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The growth of the Internet has opened up a vast arena, providing more opportunities for businesses, particularly small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to sell their products and services to a global audience than they would have been able to afford to reach using the traditional methods. SMEs are extremely important to many countries and their contribution to economy cannot be over emphasized. Several researchers have studied the contribution of the Internet and highlight the importance of convenience, satisfaction, quality, and consumer purchase behavior. In this study, it is argued that SMEs stand to benefit significantly from the opportunities and benefits that the Internet offers to businesses. Therefore, the use of the Internet is widely seen as critical for the competitiveness of SMEs in the emerging global market. The study is exploratory in nature and will be conducted in three stages. The findings presented in this paper, argues that SMEs in developing countries must learn from the experiences of developed countries, such as the United States and European countries, and use the Internet more frequently.

The Growth of the Engineering Profession: Statistics and Conjecture

1972 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Kastner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western World ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Manpower Needs

The Engineering Profession in the developed countries has greatly increased in numerical strength in recent years but the future pattern is not clear and forecasts of manpower needs in industry are unreliable. Nevertheless, statistics indicate that the United States has, relative to the industrial population as a whole, a clear advantage in technological manpower in the Western World though Russia may, perhaps, be even stronger. The difficulty of evaluating the evidence is stressed. In the world as a whole international co-operation tends to reduce the inequalities of distribution but an enormous task lies before the developing countries which need to produce and retain many more engineers.

The Same Only Different: Reflections on Robert Kagan’s Adversarial Legalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1170-1184
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Western World ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
Influential Book

Robert A. Kagan’s influential book, first published at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is now brought up to date with a second edition. “Adversarial legalism,” in Kagan’s view, distinguishes law in the United States from the law of other developed countries in many ways, for example, heavy use of policymaking through litigation and punitive regulation, as opposed to bureaucratic and conciliatory techniques. He suggests that this situation is likely to continue. This essay, however, looks at the same phenomena from the standpoint of similarities rather than differences. It suggests that powerful economic and cultural forces, common to the modern world of developed countries, tend to push the legal systems of these countries in parallel directions. Convergence, rather than divergence, is therefore the trend in the legal systems of the Western world; and this trend is likely to continue in the future.

scholarly journals Afghanistan: What Went Wrong?

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 538-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Paris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The United States ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
International Effort ◽  
Guerrilla War ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
At Home

The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, which deposed the Taliban regime, was followed by a major international effort to stabilize that country. More than a decade later, this effort has yielded neither security nor political stability in Afghanistan. After having been ousted from power, the Taliban reestablished itself in the borderlands of Pakistan and began fighting an effective guerrilla war against international and Afghan government forces. Despite heavy losses in recent years, the insurgency shows no sign of giving up. Meanwhile, attempts to establish a credible and legitimate Afghan government have been similarly disappointing. President Hamid Karzai, once hailed as the country's democratic savior, came to be seen instead as the leader of one of the most corrupt regimes on the planet, a perception that has damaged his government's legitimacy both at home and abroad. Afghanistan's development and human rights indicators have improved, but it remains to be seen if these gains can be sustained as the international effort is scaled back. Finally, although the United States and its partners succeeded in weakening Al Qaeda in the region, both Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan appear to have become considerably less stable over the course of the mission, with untold consequences for the future.

Back to the Future

2013 ◽  
pp. 296-309
Author(s):  
Chris Underation
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Oral Culture ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Type ◽  
Literate Culture

As the Internet rises as a center for reading and writing, many are expressing concerns about fractured reading, shallow knowledge, and shorter attention spans that digital media encourages. These criticisms miss the point: a new literacy is rising, and this literacy is bringing about a change every bit as profound as the change from oral to literate culture. Using Walter Ong’s concept of secondary orality, this study explores the likelihood that oral culture and literate culture are being forged into a new type of literacy that restores some of the virtues of oral culture to our society. Current statistics and studies indicate there is a renaissance of reading in the United States, likely as a result of reading online.

ADVANTAGES OF FRANCHISE SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-181
Author(s):  
Marina Jovićević Simin ◽  
Slobodan Živkucin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Franchise System ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successful Business

Franchising is considered the most successful marketing concept around the world. Today, many franchises are offered, and it is incomparably easier and more secure to develop entrepreneurial spirit under the patronage of the already developed system. Franchise is called long term, firm contractual cooperation between independent companies or entrepreneurs, franchisor and franchisee, where the franchisor provides the franchisee with a set of knowledge and gives it its brand. The number of franchise systems in the world is rising, and competition compels the franchisee to search for new and attractive offers. The largest number of franchises exists on the United States market, the number of employees in this market is in arrears, and achieves the high GDP measured in billions of dollars. In the United States are represented all kinds of franchise systems, from the automotive industry, restaurants, education, beauty salons to new forms of work from home. Canada is the second largest in franchising, many forms have been developed that place the franchise at the very top of economic business. In Europe, the less developed countries, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc., are developing more and more domestic brands and striving towards the conquest of international markets. New models of franchised business such as home-based franchises are being developed to allow most people to work from home. The application of the franchise system in our country would significantly contribute to the development of the domestic market. The future success of franchising in Serbia depends on the ability to innovate, improve the size of the site, provide education to interested small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs. Looking at all these countries and different markets, one can conclude that franchising is less developed in weaker economies, while economically more developed markets achieve even greater expansion in the form of GDP, employment, education, institutions. If each country awakens awareness of the value of franchising as a good technique for enterprises and entrepreneurs, it will open the possibility of expansion franchising to international markets, through marketing, social networks and the Internet. What is important is that this type of franchising is developing in our country and in this way it is slowly focusing on international markets. In franchising, the risk of business failure when starting a business is significantly lower than when starting a stand-alone business. Franchising is a way to use a proven, more successful, business model in a personal business, thereby reducing the likelihood of failure. The franchisee still continues to act substantially with his own resources, at his own risk, but under a different name. A well-known and famous brand is an additional guarantee for greater recognition and an automatically higher number of consumers. Franchising is a shortcut to a more successful business success. In the future, banks are expected to pay more attention to the financing of franchising, as both franchisees and recipients are referred to banks that receive the role of checkpoints and mediators.

Jews at Home

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
The United States ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Jewish Migration ◽  
The Future ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
Emotional Issue ◽  
At Home

The questions at the heart of this book are: what things make a home ‘Jewish’, and what is it that makes Jews feel ‘at home’ in their environment? The material dimensions are explored through a study of the symbolic and ritual objects that convey Jewishness and a consideration of other items that may be used to express Jewish identity in the home. The discussion is geographically and ethnically wide-ranging, and the transformation of meaning attached to different objects in different environments is contextualized. For diasporic Jewish culture, the question of feeling at home is an emotional issue that frequently emerges in literature, folklore, and the visual and performing arts. The phrase ‘at-homeness in exile’ aptly expresses the tension between the different heritages with which Jews identify, including that between the biblical promised land and the cultural locations from which Jewish migration emanated. The chapters take a closer look at the way in which ideas about feeling at home as a Jew are expressed in literature originating in Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, and also at the political ramifications of these emotions. The question is further explored in a series of exchanges on the future of Jews feeling ‘at home’ in Australia, Germany, Israel, and the United States. The book examines the theme of the Jewish home materially and emotionally from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. It uses the theme of home and the concept of domestication to revise understanding of the lived (and built) past, and to open new analytical possibilities for the future.

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