Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation de...
The "Economics of Information Biasing (EIB)" focuses on information sharing strategies of individuals and their impact on institutions and human values. It introduces a simplified modeling of inst...
Poems in this book span at least three generations of important historical periods in Africa, North and South America as well as the Caribbean. These were periods marked by social upheavals, protes...
The European Union is working together to regulate the export and transfer of strategic goods from EU countries, in order to prevent misuse of these goods. The decision-making process on a improved...
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) offset mechanism which is a part of the Kyoto Protocol. It allows developed countries to reduce GHGs in developing countries. ...
A licensed pharmaceutical process is required to be executed within the validated ranges throughout the lifetime of product manufacturing. Changes to the process usually require the manufacturer...
Corporate governance is a process in motion, and the practice of corporate governance has developed radically in the last few years. All countries around the world are now aiming to issue new co...
HIV/AIDS counseling service is one of an entry point to HIV preventions. In Ethiopia HIV counseling service began in the late 1980s. But up until now only a small percentage of those with HIV/AIDS ...
During the 1970s and 1980s normative comparative studies were conducted to better understand the indomitability of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA). Those studies foc...
This is a study pertaining to the determinants of demand for small island destinations that attract international tourism. The study specifies a dynamic econometric model that reflects causal li...
Many studies on bank efficiencies and
productivity have been conducted but, to-date; a wide gap
exists and few have referred to banks in Arab Gulf
Cooperation Co...
A typical enterprise uses a local area network of computers to perform its business. During the off-working hours, the computational capacities of these networked computers are underused or unused....
While there has been substantial research and practice literature published on domestic violence in the past three decades, little has explored the informal social networks of battered women with c...
The elimination of child labor and
universal primary education are two major issues in
developing economies. The estimates, determinants and
prospects differ ...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, information about groundwater contamination in Silicon Valley became widely available. While many residents already knew of the twenty-three groundwater contam...
Cavitation is an extremely attractive option to improvise the efficacy of conventional unit operation and unit processes, for its ability to provide energy in concentrated form and at the location ...
Small quantities of added acetaldehyde have been reported to stimulate strongly the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultures subjected to ethanol stress, with a similar, smaller effect also repo...
In the 21st Century child care continues to be a divisive and contested area of social policy activity. Child care service provision and financing varies greatly across economically advanced countr...
This book surveys and discusses some of the main theoretical issues raised by adaptation to climate changes and describes in detail an empirical case study on the metrics and the estimates of re...
The Recording Industry Association of America claims to lose millions of dollars each year from music piracy (RIAA, 2007). Instead of causing loss, digital music piracy may activate norms of reci...