The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires the development of suitable indicators for regular reporting on the environmental state and achievement of a good environmental status of EU’s marine waters by 2020. The development of indicators for determining seafloor integrity and its possible disturbance by human activities have so far largely ignored the geological properties of se...

Peter Singer argues that when some fail to do their part in alleviating suffering, the rest of us must take up slack. In response, L. J. Cohen, Liam Murphy, and David Miller argue such a requirement would be unfair. No one, they contend, should required contribute more than she under full compliance. I against we are obligated slack left by noncontributors, but agree thereby treated unfairly. D...

We propose an efficient solution to optimize buffer dumping allowing to reduce significantly the losses caused by buffer overflow. To highlight the proposed architecture we have analyzed its performance compared with different configurations of polling scheme.

Global patterns of FDI and trade are remarkably similar, yet mainstay theory has them as substitutes. We posit a model where multiproduct, final-goods firms simultaneously engage in intraindustry FDI and intraindustry trade. The logic behind this two-way FDI is analogous to that of two-way trade in the Brander–Krugman reciprocal-dumping model. Namely, multiproduct firms use trade costs to reduc...

Article VI of the GATT allows counter measures if goods are sold on a foreign market at a price below average production plus transportation costs. The present article analyzes Article VI based on a simple game theoretic model with two countries and economies of scale in the production of one homogeneous good. It is shown that multiple equilibria exist under the WTO rule for some parameter valu...

Food wastage and its accumulation are becoming a critical problem around the globe due to continuous increase of the world population. The exponential growth in food waste is imposing serious threats to our society like environmental pollution, health risk, and scarcity of dumping land. There is an urgent need to take appropriate measures to reduce food waste burden by adopting standard managem...

Noise emissions are a significant environmental impact caused by the mining industry in all technological phases of surface mining, mineral processing, and waste disposal. This paper presents role noise assessment control large-scale operations. Mine planning develops model operations, ore excavation, dumping scheduling processing rates, including spatial distribution activities. Such level min...