This policy brief shall explore the current relation between two powers – the European Union and Russia. This relationship, often unstable not least because of historical heritage, has altered during the past few years due to a number of changes that are to be discussed here – the changing domestic situation in Russia, the growing competition between the two parties over the ‘shared neighbourho...

The Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan announced in 2006 that the sales volumes of the manufacturing industry of Taiwan were continuously increased from 2000 to 2005 where the manufacturing industry took 21.95% and 21.4% in the gross domestic product of Taiwan in 2004 and 2005, respectively. It is no doubt that the manufacturing industry is both important and significant to Taiwan’s economy...

developed countries such as USA (2.6 in 2006, US Census Bureau) and Japan (2.6 in 2005, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications). Thus, many nonsmoking household members may share indoor environments with smokers. The WHO FCTC is the first global public health treaty that the 166 WHO member states have already ratified. Article 8 of the WHO FCTC addresses the issue of protection from ex...

background: little is known about the influence of habitual participation in physical exercise and diet on upper-extremity physical function in older adults. to assess the relationship of general physical exercise and diet to upper-extremity physical function and pain intensity in older adults.   methods: a cohort of 111 patients 50 or older completed a sociodemographic survey, the rapid assess...

• WILLARD P. GINGERICH, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs • KENNETH SUMNER, Ph.D., Acting Associate Provost for Academic Affairs • JOANNE COTE-BONANNO, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Academic Programs and Assessment • JAMES GERMAN, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education • NICOLA SULLIVAN, M.B.A., Director of Administration • MARY COLON, M.A., Director, Academic ...

In accordance with the Costa theorem, the interference which is independent of the channel input and known non-causally at the transmitter, does not affect the capacity of the Gaussian channel. In some applications, the known interference depends on the input and hence has some information. In this paper, we study the channel with input dependent interference and prove a capacity theorem that n...