The themes included the following overarching areas: The Need, and Prospects, for Innovation and Nonconventional Technologies.
Issues discussed include data availability, origin of medical tourists, quality and continuity of care, regulation and litigation, barriers to medical tourism, policy changes needed, and prospects for such a bi-lateral relationship.
The framework is inspired by idea generation theory and the design games literature, and guides the development of board games which, through the use of adequate stimuli, rules and props, facilitate students in extracting and expressing their needs, desires and prospects regarding future educational software.
Cartilage engineering is the object of intense research as a result of major medical needs and therapeutic prospects.
The relationships with traditional stakeholders have been modified, redesigned, and adapted to the new needs and growth prospects of macro- and microeconomics.
It acknowledges differences among nations and focuses on existing national commitments--but holds forth both the need for and prospects of augmenting efforts over time with a goal of limiting global temperature increases to "well below 2° C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5° C".
Growing concern over the world's ever-increasing energy needs and the prospect of rapidly dwindling reserves of oil, natural gas, and uranium fuel have prompted efforts to develop viable alternative energy sources.
China's growing energy needs and the prospect that an environmental backlash in the United States against the oil sands might hinder access to Canada's traditional market are making the idea of a trans-Pacific market for Canadian oil increasingly attractive.
For now Ms. Lord, who founded an earlier company and has an extensive background in the energy industry, is focused on building the business and continuing to tweak its products to meet the needs of customers and prospects.
