Western communication technologies facilitate cross-border interaction, but social and political capital possessed by the leaders may be necessary for transactions across national borders to occur thus gaining access to specialized information and global thought leaders in a medical sub-specialty such as oncology.
This is due predominantly to globalization: the increased extent, velocity, and scope of cross-border interactions, transactions, and relations (Scholte 2000).
Although national borders impose substantial barriers on levels of spatial interaction and urban development near national borders [36, 37, 38], no penalties on potential cross-border interactions are currently imposed on accessibility values.
Investment is needed to improve a wide range of areas from market access and financial services to setting up flood-proof communication networks, weather forecast information, drought and flood mitigation, social welfare systems, and cross-border government interaction.
But there's certainly a long tradition of cross-border family interactions in this nation of immigrants.
Lack of cross-border transport supply has repeatedly been blamed for the fact that national borders limit spatial interaction and, consequently, the growth of border regions.
Comparisons of hyperspectral images of coral-algal borders indicated that interaction zones shared common characteristics.
To assess Hispanic ethnicity, border residence, or their interaction for association with risk of high gestational weight gain (GWG) and related outcomes.
Although popularly remembered as a tale of the triumph of rugged Protestant male individualism, the raid is better understood not along the lines of Turner's thesis, but as an account of the strong factors of community life and cross-cultural interaction in border communities.
Despite their ills as instruments of capitalist exploitation, new technologies that increased possibilities for human interaction across borders ultimately represented a progressive force in history.
Solidarity beyond borders involves a multilevel interaction between home and host countries and leads the states to develop strategies of integration – territorial and non-territorial – as a way of including identity issues developed in a minority situation into their political strategy to "re-territorialize" them.
