Two independent federal regulatory agencies, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), both claim regulatory authority over broadband Internet access. Both have actively explored the costs and benefits of “net neutrality” regulation since 2005, when a series of FCC decisions declared that broadband is an information service rather than a telecommuni...

The gerrymandering problem is a worldwide problem which sets great threat to democracy and justice in district based elections. Thanks to partisan redistricting commissions, district boundaries are often manipulated to benefit incumbents. Since an independent commission is hard to come by, the possibility of impartially generating districts with a computer is explored in this thesis. We have de...

Natural resource conflicts in Mali the last decade represent an important case to visualise interconnection between land and climate issues. The country has received significant international attention recent years both due announcement of large-scale deals its perceived vulnerability stress. At same time, Malian peasant movements have formed networks resistance been leading pilot implementatio...

A survey of commercial feeder cattle operations in Utah revealed that explicit transaction costs such as transportation, shrink, and commissions can not fully explain how marketing alternatives are selected. Implicit transaction costs appear to play a critical role in the determination of market selection. For example, the level of trust between buyer and seller and the socio-economic character...

The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is the main knowledge enterprise for aerospace technology in the Netherlands. NLR carries out commissions for government and corporations, both nationally and internationally, and for civil and military aviation. The overarching objective is to render aviation safer and more sustainable and efficient. In this way, NLR has been making essential contributio...