Families Caring Across Borders, Migration, Ageing and TransnationalCaregiving by Baldassar, Loretta; Baldock Vellekoop Cora and Wilding Raelene, (2007) Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 259 pp.Contemporary Polish Migration in Europe, Complex Patterns of Movement and Settlement Edited by Anna...

This paper presents a scheme for classifying the performance analysis of financial institutions (PAFI) literature. Performance, is viewed by: (1) The perspective of each of five major groups; owners, regulators, managers, clients, and researchers. The attribute used to appraise performance is...

This paper discusses a dimly lit and largely unknown bit of the history of applied mathematics and of engineering science. Hilda Geiringer a pioneer in both survived extermination because starting in 1933, Turkey reformed its higher education using invitees fleeing the Nazis and for whom America...

In 1933, Turkey set out on a crash process of reforming its legal and health care delivery systems as well as its system of higher education using refugees fleeing the Nazis. By way of formal government invitations these people were given a safe haven. For many America was out of reach because...

This paper reviews all Game Theory (GT) articles published in the three leading, US-based, OR/MS journals: Operations Research, Management Science, and Interfaces starting with Vol. 1, No. 1 of each. The articles were first subdivided into Theory or Applications categories. The Applications...

This paper presents a scheme for classifying the Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. SCM is broadly defined to include all classical business functions and theoretic management disciplines which impacted this emerging field. Consequently, its literature is very disjoint and disparate. It...

Over at least three decades many a call has been recorded to have the OR/MS education and research community increase its real-world relevance and meaningfully address issues of consequence. In this century productivity became a major strategic or policy issue for competitiveness within the...

Transfer of Technologies (TT) takes place among various kinds of players, takes on various kinds of modalities and is done for various motivations. Its literature is very disjoint and disparate. It transcends several academic disciplines and professions. This paper presents a taxonomy defining...

This paper reviews Turkey's policies and the practices of economic and social development starting with the end of its War of Independence in 1923 to date. It also analyzes the policies which have inhibited its development potential

This paper provides a historical perspective on Ordinarius Professor Joseph Igersheimer. While in forced exile from Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939, he was the architect of modern ophthalmology in Turkey. Earlier he was a pioneer in addressing the impact of syphilis on eyesight. He was first...