Sensitivity analysis of performance appraisal index parameters of major ports.
ABSTRACT Infrastructure plays a very important role in the economic progress of the nation. 90% of the international cargo is transported by the ships. In this view, the performance of ports plays an important role. The performance of the port should be assured based on multiple parameters....

Globalization and Its Enemies.
Globalization and Its Enemies By Daniel Cohen Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. 256. $27.95 cloth. In Globalization and Its Enemies, Daniel Cohen deals with an important and timely topic, but he does so inadequately. The title leads one to believe...

Frost & Sullivan: Globalization of Clinical Trials Advances Case for Clinical Trial Management Systems.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 June 2008-Frost & Sullivan: Globalization of Clinical Trials Advances Case for Clinical Trial Management Systems(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Contract research organizations (CROs) hope to obtain an edge in the highly competitive healthcare industry by using technology to shorten project times, improve data...

Editor's note.
In keeping with World Literature Today's commitment to offer coverage of such important literary and cultural topics as endangered languages and globalization (see our September 2007 and March 2008 issues, respectively), the current special section of WLT attempts in small measure to consider the subject of the world's rapidly...

Fueling deglobalization.
Byline: The Register-Guard Globalization is driven by three economic engines: cheap labor, open trade policies and inexpensive transport. One leg of globalization's stool is wobbling as oil prices climb past the $130 a barrel mark. Transportation costs are figured into the price of virtually every...

The American family and the fear of national decline, 1968-1980.
No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980. By Natasha Zaretsky (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xi plus 320 pp. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper). Richard Rovere, the New Yorker's Washington correspondent, called the 1970s "a slum of a decade."...

Sacred Longings: The Ecological Spirit and Global Culture.
Sacred Longings: The Ecological Spirit and Global Culture. By Mary C. Grey. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2004. Pp. xii + 260. Paper, $19.00. In 1993 Adrienne Rich wrote that with "an alleged triumph of corporate capitalism ... our desire itself--is taken from us, processed and labeled, and...

Kauffman Foundation Study: India and China are Becoming Centers of Pharmaceutical R&D.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 June 2008-Kauffman Foundation Study: India and China are Becoming Centers of Pharmaceutical R&D(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Cost pressures, the need to tap global talent, and growth opportunities in emerging markets led Western pharmaceutical companies to shift substantial manufacturing and clinical-trial work to...

Thinking North America.
It was the Spanish part of the invention of America that liberated Western man from the fetters of a prison-like conception of his physical world, and it was the English part that liberated him from subordination to a Europe-centred conception of his historical world. In these two great liberations...

U.S. science policy needs to heed global realities.
I have just returned from Singapore and Shanghai, where I visited life science research sites at universities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and Singapore's Biopolis. These institutions, and the government support behind them, invite complex reflections on the situation in the United States. The United States is home to...