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We present an automatically updatable database of background information about Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 1979 until the present. Although this information is already directly accessible through the European Parliament's web page, it is presented in a manner that makes it ideal only for those interested in finding information about individual MEPs, but difficult for anyone interested in doing large-N analysis. We provide an online 'live' source of background information about MEPs that is tailored towards the need of the latter group. Our web page allows researchers to specify the time period in which they are interested & to obtain data on committee, party group & delegation membership, as well as leadership positions within seconds. As the collection of the data is fully automated, we are able to keep the data updated as long as the European Parliament (EP) continues its current practice of making background information about members available online. Researchers will be able to combine this information with other data sources at a substantively lower cost than is currently the case. As such, we hope to encourage a new generation of research into the EP. The research note is organized as follows. The next section reviews the literature. It highlights how our database may be used to extend the already extensive quantitative literature on the ER The second section gives the reader an overview of how the technology behind the database works & how to access the information. We leave the technical aspects of the principles behind the data collection scripts to the web appendix. The third section describes the database. References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright 2009.]

The relational model and relational database management systems have
been the de facto industry standard for organizing and managing data in
most computer‐integrated manufacturing environments. In recent years,
however, some new database technologies have emerged – namely,
object‐oriented and hybrid or extended relational – making the job of the
CIM managers more difficult with regard to selecting a database
technology that would be most appropriate for their operations. Presents
a framework for selecting an appropriate DBMS type in a CIM setting
depending on a company′s ENTITY and DATA needs. It is hoped that the
presented framework would prove useful to practising managers.

In this article, we seek to understand the role of media and non-media personal networks in generating the opportunity for women to express political preferences that are different from men within the household—what we call partisan disagreement—using a survey of over 6,000 households in the Indian urban clusters of Patna and Dhanbad. We demonstrate a significant gender gap in both mobile phone ownership and media access among working age women. Due to low media access among women, we find that partisan disagreement is most likely when women have access to personal networks outside of the household, either due to employment or an opportunity to travel outside the home. For instance, women engaged in agricultural labour are 8 to 9 percentage points more likely to demonstrate partisan disagreement than unemployed women. While access is still low among women, men and women display similar patterns of social media usage. We suggest that this is due to the fact that social media can be consumed privately without family interference and highlight the potential of social media to reduce gender gaps in media access as mobile phone penetration and levels of education grow in India.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing two crises: a potentially explosive Ebola epidemic and a major insurgency. The first crisis is intertwined with the second, while public mistrust and political violence add a dangerous new dimension. The World Health Organization (WHO) and other health emergency responders will increasingly find themselves fighting outbreaks in insecure, misgoverned (or ungoverned) zones, possibly experiencing active conflict. Yet, WHO has neither the mission nor the capabilities to navigate these security threats. We cannot expect that the usual public health strategy will succeed when health workers' lives are directly imperiled, and community resistance runs deep. Tackling health emergencies amidst complex humanitarian crises requires fresh thinking.

In light of the economic deregulation and financial policy amendments, there is a great deal of capital-flows and interconnected financial activities between the developed and developing countries. As such, banking operations have become very complex and some financial institutions through their sheer reach, across geographies and markets have become 'too big to fail'. For example, international banking involves a variety of activities such as deposits/loans to countries but also covers cross-border operations, trade finance, foreign exchange, corresponding banking, international payment servi