The article deals with the process of transformation outer space into a warfighting domain in 21st century. During Cold War, was place understanding and peaceful competition between superpowers. Militarization has existed since beginning Space Age, excluding weaponization until absence an international regime to prevent technological advances opens up new opportunities for states their quest in...

this study explored the effects of 2 different types of strategies—translatedwriting vs. reading to write—in the writings of some of iranian efl learners inesfahan payamenoor university. the results showed no significant differences inthe students’ writings (in the 2 experimental groups and 1 control group) for thepretest topic. with respect to the posttest, the results, however, indicated that...

Dimensionfull quantities are understood as given in lattice units a. {ωL(x)} is the set of all closed lattice paths with length |ωL| = L obtained by RW starting and ending at x. The free RW “measure” (2D) is implemented by the actual procedure, the mass dependence e T is kept explicit. Ul are link variables. For detail see [4]. [email protected] [email protected]...

“In business, there is big and there is Wal-Mart.” --BusinessWeek, October 6, 2003 So begins a recent report about the wide-ranging influence of Wal-Mart. To get a sense of just how big Wal-Mart is, consider the following: • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the world’s largest retailer, with $285.2 billion in sales in the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2005 (Wal-Mart, 2006). • The company employs 1.2 mill...

This paper explores the widely accepted view thatWal-Mart causes significant harm to the traditional, small ‘‘mom and pop’’ business sector of the U.S. economy. We present the first rigorous econometric investigation of this issue by examining the rate of self-employment and the number of small employer establishments using both time series and cross-sectional data. We also examine alternative ...

Virtual machines can have many different deployment scenarios and therefore may require generation of multiple VM images. OS Farm is a service that aims to provide VM images that are tailored and generated on the fly. In order to optimize generation of images, a layered copy-on-write image structure is used, and an image cache ensures that identical images are not regenerated. Images can be sev...

Executive Overview Wal-Mart’s emphasis on “Always low prices. Always” has made it the largest retail operation in history. However, this unrelenting mission has also created a way of doing business that draws substantial criticism regarding the company’s employment practices, relationships with suppliers, and the company’s impact on local economies. This paper focuses on a company that delivers...

José Clavijo y Fajardo’s satirical allegory, El tribunal de las damas, certainly fulfils the great Roman satirist Horace’s utili dulci dictum, so prized by Spain’s neoclassicists, on the importance of literature’s being both entertaining and instructive. Its witty representation of the age-old debate about the balance of power between the sexes, in the form of a court-room battle over the intro...