Forest resources represent many competing uses in society. The allocation of forest resources depends primarily on the society's value for each use. The problem with allocating forest resources among its different uses lies in differences in societal values across the globe for a single use, across uses and even within political boundaries. These differences in values held by societies across t...

This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in small countries have greater influence over the nature of political decision making while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more public goods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists excessive incentives to separate, though this need not be the case for all sets of secession rules studied...

The advent of cheap and ubiquitous wireless access has introduced a number of new connectivity paradigms. This paper investigates one of them, user-provided connectivity or UPC. In contrast to traditional infrastructure-based connectivity, e.g., connectivity through the up-front build-out of expensive base-stations, UPC realizes connectivity organically as users join and expand its coverage. Th...

In this study, water management allocated to the agricultural sector’ was analyzed using stochastic dynamic programming under uncertainty conditions. The technical coefficients used in the study referred to the agricultural years, 2013-2014. They were obtained through the use of simple random sampling of 250 farmers in the region for crops wheat, barley, melon, watermelon and ruby grapes under ...

It often happens that several diierent regulations apply to a given organization. And sometimes, these regulations are connicting, that is, for instance, one regulation says that it is forbidden to do some action while another says it is permitted to do the same action. In this paper, we present a logic, called FUSION, to reason when several regulations are merged together. Our approach is to s...

Motivated by efficiency and equity concerns, public resource managers have increasingly utilized hybrid allocation mechanisms that combine features of commonly used price (e.g., auction) and non-price (e.g., lottery) mechanisms. This study serves as an initial investigation of these hybrid mechanisms, exploring theoretically and experimentally how the opportunity to obtain a homogeneous good in...

When there are huge volumes of information dispersing in the various machines, global directory services are required for the users. DSCloud Platform provides the global directory service , in which the directories are created and maintained by the users themselves. In this paper, we describe the DSCloud Platform directory service’s functions, authorization, mounting users’ local file systems ,...

22 The lantibiotic lacticin 3147 has been the focus of much research due to its broad spectrum of 23 activity against many microbial targets, including drug resistant pathogens. In order to protect 24 itself, a lacticin 3147 producer must possess a cognate immunity mechanism. Lacticin 3147 25 immunity is provided by an ABC transporter, LtnFE, and a dedicated immunity protein, LtnI, 26 both of w...