The matter of this thesis is the modelling of Open Distance Learning (ODL)’s platforms basing on their characteristics. We shall use tools of modelling as UML (diagrams, extensions of the meta model, profils,...). Proposed results should take into account the specificities of ODL's platforms (variety actors, educational resources, assistance, degree of freedom, collaboration between learners,.....

The objective of this paper is to examine whether India has reached a stage of financial development when full capital account convertibility could be introduced. In its report on capital account convertibility the Tarapore Committee provided a succinct and subtle definition: capital account convertibility is the freedom to convert local financial assets into foreign financial assets and vice-v...

Musical Platonists identify musical works with abstract sound structures but this implies that they are not created but only discovered. Jerrold Levinson adapts Platonism to allow for creation by identifying musical works with indicated sound structures. In this paper I explore the similarities between Levinson’s view and Kit Fine’s theory of qua objects. Fine offers the theory of qua objects a...

Two main weaknesses of GA and GP schema theorems are that they provide only information on the expected value of the number of instances of a given schema at the next generation Em(H; t + 1)], and they can only give a lower bound for such a quantity. This paper presents new theoretical results on GP and GA schemata which largely overcome these weaknesses. Firstly, unlike previous results which ...

Large global financial imbalances need not be the harbinger of a world financial crash as many authors believe. Instead, we show that large and persistent global imbalances can be the outcome of financial integration when countries have different financial markets characteristics. In particular, countries with more advanced financial markets accumulate foreign liabilities vis-a-vis countries wi...

Mobile applications are being used every day by more than half of the world’s population to perform a great variety of tasks. With the increasingly widespread usage of these applications, the need arises for efficient techniques to test them. Many frameworks allow automating the process of application testing, however existing frameworks mainly rely on the application developer for providing te...

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment process of the Korean financial crisis in a broad international perspective. In particular, the impacts of the crisis on GDP growth, inflation, current account balance, and employment are analyzed using a crosscountry data set, which compiled 150 financial crisis episodes from all developing countries that have received conditional financial assi...

Statistics are complied upon reports provided by data suppliers which are usually obliged to give their data by law. These laws include goals of these data reports and guidelines for providing them. Even in the case, however, when these data reports fulfil all requirements, we would not be sure that we have got the right picture of economic processes because, as a result of characteristics and ...

This specification defines a new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) response code, 199 Early Dialog Terminated, that a SIP forking proxy and a User Agent Server (UAS) can use to indicate to upstream SIP entities (including the User Agent Client (UAC)) that an early dialog has been terminated, before a final response is sent towards the SIP entities. Information about the current status of this d...