Power generation all over the world is slowly being taken by renewable energy technologies to alleviate crisis, as well provide clean and green energy. Therefore, in foreseeable future, most likely may compete on par level with conventional generation. The near future holds rebalancing of global power system market, which mandates, interpretation upcoming current trends revolving around pricing...

Background For the purpose of understanding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) concerns regarding online promotion of prescription drugs advertised directly to consumers, this study examines notices of violations (NOVs) and warning letters issued by the FDA to pharmaceutical manufacturers.   Methods The FDA’s warning letters and NOVs, which were issued to pharmaceutical companies over a...

Proportional Fair (PF), a frequently used scheduling algorithm in 3G wireless networks, can unnecessarily starve “well-behaved” users in practice. One of the main causes behind PF-induced starvation is its inability to distinguish between users who are backlogged and users who are not. In this paper, we describe how a simple parallel PF instance can mitigate such starvation.

The paper proposes a surprisingly simple characterization of a large class of models of distributed computing, via an agreement function: for each set of processes, the function determines the best level of set consensus these processes can reach. We show that the task computability of a large class of fair adversaries that includes, in particular superset-closed and symmetric one, is precisely...

Objective: By the full adoption of IFRS, measurement and disclosure of fair values become more common in Iranian financial reporting. The present study aims to identify the technical challenges of fair value measurement and disclosure in accordance with the proposed framework in IFRS13 as well as technical factors underlying resistance to fair-value based financial reporting from accounting and...

In the field of international law sea, continental shelf delimitation has always been one most controversial issues. Since definition Equity Principle in “United Nations Convention on Law Sea” (UNCLOS) is relatively vague, connotation depends accumulation and development judicial precedents, arbitration awards, state practice. The generally recognized by community become a part customary law. O...