Die Bewältigung von Pflegebedürftigkeit stellt nach einhelliger Auffassung eine große gesellschaftliche Gegenwartsfrage dar. Angesichts wachsender Pflegebedarfe und knapper Personalressourcen verheißen technische Innovationen eine Steigerung der Effizienz und Effektivität in der Pflege. Ein...

Foresight has experienced a great upswing in the last few years, partly in view of the Millenium. Innovations for our Future describes not only the big development trends of the future in research and technology, but also the re-discovery of the Delphi method. The Delphi method is not new, but...

Successive authoritarian regimes have maintained tight control over organized labor in Egypt since the 1950s. And yet in 2009, a group of civil servants decided to exit the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), thereby setting a precedent for other groups and threatening the...