A central problem confronting all West European economies after World War I! was that of Americanization. How far should European industry be reconstructed in the image of the United States, unquestionably the dominant economic and military power of the postwar world? To contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, Americanization of industry meant above all mass production -the high-volume ma...

ost of the points raised by Chervenak, McCullough, and Ledger apply to the French position, particularly as far as the historical and psychological aspects are concerned. We may agree with the possibility and furthermore the need to "rethink the clinical and public health ethics of HIV infection" and to accept "a more ethically balanced approach" than the "exclusive emphasis on the rights of th...

It is becoming increasingly popular to describe real time signal proessing systems targetted for FPGA or ASIC implementation using structural signal flow graphs. We have implemented support for generation of synthesizeable as well as testbench VHDL code from Ptolemy II models. A helper based approach borrowing heavily from the existing Ptolemy II C code generation framework is used. This work d...

based on a general rule in civil liability, external causes limits or excludes the liability of defendant. however, the question is that whether it is possible to applied the general rule when there are compulsory liability insurances? this paper is intended to study the subject-matter regarding traffic accidents (as one of the anticipated cases of compulsory insurances) in iranian and french l...