Originally developed by NASA as high performance piston alloys to meet U.S. automotive legislation requiring low exhaust emission, the novel NASA alloys now offer dramatic increase in tensile strength for many other applications at elevated temperatures from 450°F (232°C) to about 750°F (400°C). It is an ideal low cost material for cast automotive components such as pistons, cylinder heads, cyl...

The recent strategy of the Government of China has been to attract foreign direct investment in order to obtain foreign technology and capital. There is an official preference for advanced technology, and for its rapid diffusion to domestic firms. This approach underpins the joint-venture legislation applicable to most parts of the manufacturing sector. Using four case studies of foreign affili...

This article examines one important component of the problem of implementing the federal government's Clean Air policy, namely, the difficulty of quantifying the rela­ tionship between emissions to the atmosphere and ambient air quality. Short·, middle·, and long.tenn contt"ol strategies are discussed with an emphasis on the information needed for their effective assessment and implemeDlation. ...

In our days, the notion, the importance and the significance of parallel corpora is so big that needs no special introduction. Unfortunately, public available parallel corpora is somewhat limited in range. There are big corpora about politics or legislation, about medicine and other specific areas, but we miss corpora for other different areas. Currently there is a huge investment on using the ...

In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was signed into law. This Act, part of the broader “stimulus” legislation, represents the U.S.'s largest investment in health information technology (HIT) to date. More importantly, it sets a vision and provides a plan intended to transform the U.S. health care system to a safer, more efficient place to rec...

in the previous article written by the author of this paper we saw that economic principles governing  legislation policy in the field of copyright make legislator enact efficient laws and regulations on copyright and prevent him to enact contrary regulations in the same fields. the previous article considered three economic principles and now this article tries to examine two economic principl...

Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

Environmental issues have received considerable attention in the literature over the past few years; consider, for example, Burrit (2004), Hopwood (2009), Hubbard (2009), Masanet-Llodra (2006), and Schaltegger and Wagner (2006), to name but a few. Several factors have motivated companies to investigate and improve environmental performance (Länsiluoto&Järvenpää, 2008). Stakeholders, such as cus...

This paper examines the impact of women’s property inheritance rights on their educational attainment. Using exogenous variation created by femalefriendly state level reforms to the inheritance law in India, I find that educational attainment of women who were of primary school-going age at the time of reform increased by an average of 0.5 years in reforming relative to non-reforming states. Th...