A lthough copper-oxide superconductors share with conventional superconductors the remarkable property of offering no resistance to the flow of electricity, their characteristic critical temperatures (Tc) below which this happens can be as high as 135 K. In fact, these materials belong to the emerging class of so-called strongly correlated systems — a class of materials whose list is rapidly gr...

The United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea, adopted in 1982, is the legal framework that sets out the rights and duties of States in the use and exploitation of the oceans. Article 76 through to article 85 in Part VI of the Convention is dedicated to provisions related to the continental shelf such as the determination and delineation of the outer limits of the extended continental sh...

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Editorials 211 It is 10 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control entered into force. 1 This binding treaty, the first to be negotiated under the auspices of WHO, is widely recognized as a major milestone in global health. Although challenges in fully implementing the treaty remain, it has been successful as a novel public health instrument. It has ...

In this paper we present several simple performance models for computationally intense remote procedure calls. Previous analyses of remote procedure call have dwelt largely on how to reduce call overhead for computationally trivial remote procedure call. Experimental determination the values of the parameters of the models are shown for a variety of network sizes. Conclusions are drawn for the ...

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Using the 419,194 customers of a mobile operator as the sample, this research investigates the effectiveness of the company’s retention strategies. It examines the effect of such strategies on extending customer life cycle. We find that the retention policies and the incremental average revenue per user (ARPU) in the retention period over the month prior are positively correlated. In addition, ...

Little has been done to investigate and promote the importance of non-conventional medicines (NCMs) in the realization of the right to health, yet all over the world people regularly resort to NCMs to secure healing or to prevent or mitigate the occurrence of a wide range of morbidities. This study aims to elucidate the theoretical framework of the role of NCMs in realizing the right to health,...

In the cauldron of questions surrounding global climate change, public policy issues are heating up. At this time next year in Berlin, the developed countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 will bring to the table their national plans for limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In preparation for this meeting, the treaty's Intergovernm...